Judge — July 1935 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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Why Not Revive Dueling HE law, T would say, the first resort the last resort the brave man. sure that the ancient and he manly way of settling is generally 1e coward and I'm vd differences with oft rable rapiers at dawn was done away with by s afr Such id of the sight of blood. mind very Wh cal trim: deca is to my the race. 1 phys t dawn hard on the fibre of once a man kept in go for an emergency meetir fat and soit, con- fident that his quarrels with th fellow can be settled by skilled lawyers with no chances of bodily harm to him- self. now he lets himself grow other So why not revive dueling! There would be enormous advants Inter- often settled years would Court cal- would be minable court delays. after the original difficulty arose with promptly endars, always overcrowded be done aw eased down, giving the justic Ii and detective novel readin nal quarrels. tols at five pac for the emoti > more time tled vd race. promptly set with p will be nal honesty of the Quarrels, cooled off by the time the case is ready to be tried, are hard to rekindle Nobody can love—or hate—the same girl twice with a long coolir in between. Already I can see some of the prob able Mr. and Mrs. Me- Cohen, at odds, meet at dawn a hurl plates at each other, the victor dragging the vanquished home without to the expense of Reno. p heirs of t McSwendle fortune meet the Assembled Lawyers in mortal combat over the Mc- Swendle remains. Somethin it’s a draw. Mr. Rockefeller battery of vice presidents to battle a sim- ilar array from the Sinclair Co. over a matter of dummy corporate stock or a price war. The U.S. Government meets the Herald Tribune Staff to de cide whom the government belongs to. Huey Long and General Johnson settle it with something more substantial than words, And auto victims meet auto drivers in armored cars to settle the damage suits. g vacat encounters. recourse tells me sends a ss would boom with a revival of dueling. Maybe not law books, black robes, large legal car- olf clubs; but look at the am- the business in and s. flowers, insurance, etting in the pink) tion, bandag Indian clubs (for hd. that would be s It’s worth try Cardastrophe RIDGE has become too thing. It has stepped from the amateur class to the professional. It is too much bickered over, it has become nd holy After all. brid, ne in whi ion of us- four people sit down to a enjoyably that instead “Ts that an in- double ? “Why didn't you lead me back d the air is swarming with quiet phrases like “B you two.” I have notic like, and, f hearing phra formative } ump xd “Someone's not up! people ¢ throw the dining room table, blown the dust off the box of chip: 1 are poker hands, It has been quick sw time nor para fer. For table has been put to use. an extra leaf into tling out 1 painless and rere has been neither ernalia lost in the trans- the dishonored bridge It holds the drinks that abut every good poker And poker is a fine game, let me tell you. What it lacks in the intellectual and the precise, it makes up in the emo- tional and theatrical. Bridge is what you make it and poker is what it leaves you, you might say. Bromidic as it sounds, poker certainly entails more of a knowledge of the practical side of life. ¢ is of the mind and only got emo- Poker tech and even le. al in the hands of women has you right smack against the Forces of Life itself. In bridge you were pi cise; in poker you must be romantic. Bridge is a game for Einstein; poker for Douglas Fairbanks A word, however. of warning. We have noticed a tendency to play decadent poker. Maybe it’s the times—people must have excitement. For instead of playing a steady game of draw or stud, every form of distorted poker 18 able is attempted. wild, Deuces wild, sevens one-eyed jacks wild, spit-in-the- -low, baby Ferguson and seven card Pete. It cer ily makes for ten ut it is the in- ex nt and ir terest of a madhouse in which every- body is Napoleon, Cleopatra or God. Tt is Inflationary Poker and big hands are like German marks in the 1920's We pray you then not to spoil poker. lf played carefully it will be pleasurable and often Ih Wildness will spoil it as sure ess spoils a b pitcher, tive, as wild) league As for the bridge dichards, let them have patience, Bridge will be back gain. In the meantime—how many cards will you have, Joe? Extra! Big Rackete Cut Down there he Start ET 4 jahs lumbia Broade hosannas and hallelu- g this month the Co- sting System will clean house and not only cut out all mention of the pi le inner man, what ails you and how to mend it, but all adver- tising will be cut down to a mere 10 per cent of program time. Furthermore, there will be an improvement in chil- dren's programs From which I gather all radi benefit. for, as I figure it, all programs with the exception of the first-grade musical ones, are pretty juvenile Yet. without question, radio is most powerful medium in the It is more powerful than a fleet of bat- tleships, books, the theatre, or even the motion picture, which resembles it closest in its universality of appeal and reach. It may be the one medium that will make for peace when all other me- diums have failed. The human voice sending its sympathy thru the air to an enemy certainly would be a stroke for humanity. will the world, But as the radio has been operated, one feared for its natural purpose. It was too much the toy of the salesman, It was his voice rather than the voice of those to whom it rightfully belongs: the inhabitants of the earth. comicbooks.com