Judge — December 1935 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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Sufficient Unto the Day D so, even in this year of our fur- ther folly, we stir ourse! Ain to celebrate the birthday of the Prince of Peace. to save mankind. We dare not ask ourselves now whether mankind is worth the savi ... Ring the bells and twine the holly He said, “Blessed are the meek.” Of those who sat at his feet some went to He came, they ss Rome d there in time arose the proud- est bulwark of his faith. Others crossed to Africa and founded a church no less Christian because their skins grew darker. Today the legions of Christian Rome the fields of Christian Ethi- opia. How blessed now are the meek What shall they inherit? . . . Light the candles, scatter the tinsel! He said, “Blessed are the merciful.” On German soil his words took root and a new and mighty cre spread. Today in Germany there is a wel- ter of cruelty, so blind and rash as to threaten all the world. Where now is merey to be found? . . . Hang the mistletoe, bring in the Yule log He said, “Blessed are the peac ers.” Land and sea rumble with war Christian nations conspire not in earnest to make peace but for the devious and greedy ambitions of empire. Sing your carols, shout your greetin; It has been well said that to those who feel, life is a tragedy, and to those who think, life is comedy. Christmas is no time for either. It is. it has to be, a time of gay pretense, of turning away from the world at large to the close warmth of home and friend- ship, of laying aside all cares, whether general or personal, and living in the bright moment. The irony of it is that to do this, in the midst of this sorry world, we must forget the very ori; of the day itself. Sufficient unto the is the evil—and the joy. So forget if you can, pretend if you can, for this one day, and so, only so, may you have a Merry Christmas. trample grew and Alien WOMAN who went recently to the passport office in New York in- sisted that she was a full-blooded Iroquois. Her app arance, according to the officials who saw her, was obviously that of an American Indian. She said that she was born in a small village in Texas. But th wouldn't give her a passport because she could not show a birt ertificate or other evidence that } re was American-born, She wanted to » to Scandinavia to do research work. And the only way she could be sure of ng back into the country was to apply for a re-entry permit, which is usually issued only to aliens. So she applied for the permit, but scratched out the word “alien” on the blank. Rarely do we remember that all of land once belonged to the Indians. ed, in our arrogance a good many of us regard the poor remnants of those proud tribes as no other than aliens. least we cannot blurt out to them, as we sometimes do to our immigrants from Europe, “Why don’t you go back to where you came from?” The Mentariar W “LL, we read about a started in Baltimore, calling them- selves “mentarians.” This singularly ugly word means, as we understand it, people who have lots of brains and cul- tivated tastes and not much else. They are thereby set apart from the mc Despising the masses, they are really anti-human, because the vast majority of the masses are of course human. In recent years, it seems, the men- tarian has made the mistake of think- ing that he could and ought to do some- thing to make the world better. He let himself feel sorry for the masses, Know- ing himself a superior being, he assumed that he was fit to lead. What he over- looked was the fact that he had no abilities a leader. To lead the masses one must be able to share and express the foolishness of the masses, as Huey Long did. Therefore the Mentarian 14 new group, JUDGE on rae BENCH Society of Baltimore has voted to “re- turn the class struggle back to the dullards.”” We doubt if there will be any com- plaint about this from the dullards or any noticeable effect upon the class struggle. It may be an excellent idea for all intellectuals to become men- tarians and withdraw at once from a scene in which th yo are neither grace- ful nor effective... . The only trouble is that the human race has a way of throwing up electuals in the most unexpected places, First thing you k these di ow spised masses will be breeding a whole new crop of candidates for the mentarian cult. Must our prescription for the government of the future be the continual removal from public life of everybody whe shows any signs of hav- ing brains? It sometimes seems so. Life on Mars HE “man from Mars” is now of- ficially declared to be only a ghost Some years ago it was assumed that there must be living beings on Mars be cause we can see through the telescope straight lines which look as if they might be canals, which would be dug only by thinking, purposeful creatures. Now, Dr. Andrews of the Harvard Observa- tory says that there cannot be there life comparable to our own, be: know that the atmosphere of \ tains only one-quarter of one per cent as much oxygen as ours, and that isn’t enough. But Dr. Andrews admits that there may have been more oxygen in the past, so that at one time “human beings” may have dwelt on the planet. At any rate, those of use who are not the minions of science and still cherish the legendary will persist in the day- dream. It would indeed be more becom- ing of us not to assume that our human form of life is the only conceivable form and to concede modestly that a cleverer species may have found out how to get along without very much oxygen. Who are we to be the criterion of all creation, when we can't even get along without ? any ause W ars con- comicbooks.com