Judge — July 1936 — page 22: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

Here’s To Our Land Nowapays the Fourth of July has a way of rousing the old demon of cynicism in us. Patriotism isn't anywhere as much fun as it used that men put it to be, now we have seen the uses to which Firecrackers re- mind us grimly of machine guns, rockets remind us of rackets. and pinwheels have t a wheel of q is generation fortune. flag—lovely though made dizzy by the And the it be sna GT grand old sinst the clouds and the bluehas cloaked so many hypocrites that we no longer salute it with the cateh in the throat that once we felt don't Nevertheless, we know any one—consider- e and canyon that here's country finer than ing lake and stream, mountain ran rocky coast, tree and blossom, 1 prairie. It's only the thing humans do that distress us. ) to our land—may she one day be free! The Apathy of Youth UR editorial on the lack this various of a youth country has squawks and movement. in ht forth cheers, but none more interesting than in one of the “How ¢ about one from a young CCC camps. He Yet what is there to be de Our apathy is occasioned by the fact man says. true! t stick our necks out. If we should so much as we dare n state just what the editor of Jupce has written they would all direction or us to resent is to rebel, And what 1? Our ders are wily campaigners in th Youth have all the tricks of the battle at their tips. So it lucky youth that managed to squirm out from nder their corpulent thumbs, wouldn't crack down on us from hance would we have at rebelli el une ending war of Age vs und they finger would he a “The editor, an elder himself, is im- mune from petty dictations. Well may he sneer at this Well may fh washy saps younger generation. > dub them a lot of wishy- But were the conditions re- versed—were the editor to be suddenly discharged from his desk and lose what money he has and be forced to join the Civilian Conservation Corps Concer tion Camps in order to exist, [ wager to say that it wouldn't take him very lor to discover the reason for And TP oam would fall in toot the whistle And then, Youth is can’t see. And the few that can can’t talk. Daren't talk, r “The CCC i regimentation of the our apathy very or ho afraid that h line dumb, They see is In youth ¢ with President: Roosevelt: having advantages of having youth with him is. subtly s the ball rollir ver is what he is after Hitler and Huey Lor th represents and but surely Niter all, wi And is Power, with the Youth of America pehind him one hundred per have enough power to ery out his relationship with God. Hitler has done it “The pay-off to Youth is slim. They don’t need to be played up to in order to have them distribute Youth ye pampered They are willing—vea, eager to give In return will be ccc other racket. The fact Fantastic ? favor and votes. doesn't have to | they satistied ro that they are being exploited Indeed of them don’t even kn: means nothing to them three-fourths word! they get. They cheaper than that quote Wyndam Lewis in his book Doom of can be bought much ‘The Youth’: ‘Big siness has looked upon Youth and found it not fair, but profitable! “So, what's to do about it? Let's put out the lights and go to bed!” Well, far be it from us elders, from our comfortable position (just out of reach of the sheriff) to assert that we're any bolder or wiser than Youth, In fact we fe own pretty silly about our blunders and timidities. But we still say that Youth today is st in apathy and benumbed in imeekness—and 20 sinking af self-pity danger signs of radation Crazy Weather [' Sa great comfort to a lot of folk. have official say- from the Weather the past six years our reau at Washington that weather has “crazy.” We suspected it and often sp it, Bur tround to reply always there was somebod “Oh, thways You forget t remember the weather averages up in the end. pleasant: weeks and ones.” Even in the face of dust. stort t toes, floods and neck-deep sno drifts, these stoies 4 romdden But gives them all the lie. The cl calm, now the scandalous tre ef clin expert of our ¢ says that g through the longest and overnment have been goi most insane spell of weather on record 1930 was the hottest year and brought the worst drought ever known, Ev since the temperature has been wa thove the when all records for This past East was wetter than ever. the West wis having far up to Ap ten per cent d normal, except in wint cold spring have be roken. while Jess than normal rainta 1! il the corn belt had only The meteorologists confess that they can't explain what has happened, Ou own hunch as laymen is that the whol country is getting a cumulative punis tofor the way we have abused t land for the past century, We've plo: land that should have been left in grass f timber recklessly. we have M led he er we've cut ¢ let our ¢ away rains and blown away by the the way to hecome what N =a desert of dust. a prey alterna ood sand wht ing at their with famine stall 1 heels. We have sorely arranged the topography that caus clouds to form and the airs to move in their ancient orderly rounds, Yes, it was human vagaries that drove the weather And if we don't mend our ways within the next eration, we'll all ia turn be driven crazy too, crazy comicbooks.com