Judge — April 1938 — page 26: what you’re looking at

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OLD MOTHER HUBBARD SYNDICATED By Stanley Jones According to Hugh S. Jobnson “It's none of our business.” Every time we think of the incredible developments in the Hubbard family, we should say that at the beginning, be- tween every thought, and at the end. So—— It's none of our business what Ed Hubbard does, however much we de- plore the double-dealing of a skunk like that. He has exhibited the same sublime disregard for the solemnity of the mar- riage vows as have Hitler and Mussolini for any kind of agreement or under- standing, expressed or implied. All the balmy blunders of the New Deal are summed up in the one trench. ant headline that stared back at shocked readers today. “THE CUPBOARD WAS BARE.” Not even the Herald-Tribune and the professional do-gooders who sit on the fences and yaw at the Admin. istration could have improved on that for a statement as to where we're heading. The whole of civilization rests on faith in promises. The marriage relation on which all society is based rests on the confidence that the assumed obligations will be met. 24 According to Mother Goose Old Mother Hubbard, she went to the cupboard, To get her poor dog a bone. ‘When she got there the cupboard was bare, And so the poor dog had none. Then—bam goes Hubbard and blows it to hell-and-gone. He may deny that he took the poor dog's bone, or even saw it. That's what Adenoidal Adolf and Bluster Benito would do, before you could even spit. But the very fact that the en- tire cupboard was bare gives him the lie. He isn’t, as the bayou folks say, ‘puttin’ up” for his own. He is inviting outsiders with some love of truth and respect for a man’s word to interfere. But I say, “It's none of our business.” America can’t police the world. According to Walter Winchell New York Novelette: He was a nice kid working his way up in Tynpanalley . . . She was a swinger of songs . . . They climbed hand-in-hand. They sealed it last Feb. Sth, as itemed here too long ago... Then the old story . . . He got to carrying the torch for a hoop-de-do warbler in one of the better known niteries . . . She waited at home with Tige, hoping for the best and fearing the worst. She aged overnight until folks got to calling her “Mother” .. . He talked a settlement, quit one job after another, went over the hill like all those before him . . . Still “Mother” hung on, playing the old losing game . . . Tige gnawed the same old ham hock until his teeth bent double . . . She begged and argued until the yawning came... No soup. To. day a man close to this department phones to say its happened... “Mother” has gone to the cupboard for the last time . + + There wasn’t even the old ham hock shelved there . . . She’s now half. way to be Renovated . . . And Hubbard? . . . He's through . . . hasn't enough coin to put in your eye . . which is too good for him . . . Scal- lions! He’s a worse heel than Hitler. According to Walter Lippmann This is written on Thursday morning, and knowing no more than I can glean from reading extracts of the statements of both principals, 1 do not feel that I am sufficiently informed to pass judg. ment. Obviously, the situation is fraught with danger. But for that very reason, it is better for us all to suspend judg- ment. At this moment, we do not know the truth about the things which may have motivated the absent Mr. Hubbard to permit his cupboard to become so utterly denuded of sustenance. We have no ex- act knowledge as to why Mrs. Hubbard should have gone to the cupboard when she did. We have no knowledge of the dog’s name, even. We lack evidence that the state of the Hubbard’ larder was a constant one, as Mrs. Hubbard has led the world to suspect. ‘What we do know is in general the background against which the current economic drama is being played in millions of Ameri- can homes. Thus we know that in the past five years many and many a Mr. Hubbard has gradually lost the power to stock a larder as he was accustomed to stock it before the admin. istration took to stocking so many ill-advised public proj- ects with the nation’s funds. First Mr. Hubbard had his salary cut. Then he lost The Judge comicbooks.com