SPOILED CHILDREN

"Diamond Jim" Brady, echoing P. T. Barnum, claims that there is no such fun as being a sucker, if you can afford it. $2,000,000 rewarded the night clubs of New York New Year's Eve for allowing out of town guests to be suckers. At one club it cost a couple eighty dollars to sit down.

Rebecca West, English lady novelist, considers this frontier, blow-in-your-pile, forty-niner spirit charming. So it may be to a few; the most delicate women may like men with hairy wrists. But New York's lumberjack psychology dispels any idea that America is civilized. Rather it seems that here are the germs of new Dark Ages.

There is no crime in paying one hundred dollars to try to be amused at a night-club, but it is ridiculous to agree with Vanity Fair and the New Yorker that it is sophistication to do so. Rather it is the sheerest childishness. It is too bad someone cannot be spanked for it.