Judge — November 10, 1906 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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WHEN this page falls under the reader’s eye the fall elections will be over and we shall know the worst—or the best. In any case, it’s good to have it over. Any considerable experience in political campaigns must have taught us how fruitless they are in promoting sober and intelli- gent conviction on the serious affairs of state. The real campaign of education goes on between campaigns, and we much doubt if anything worth while is dispensed from platforms and cart-tails, to the ac- companiment of music by the band and the rah, rah, rah! of the noisy street- throng. If the voters shall have chosen wisely and well, good government has been promoted. If otherwise, the cam- paign of education must goon in more quiet times, free from the distractions of noise and passion. Meanwhile we revert now to the real things of this work-a-day world. We are back to the hard-pan problems. Should aman marry on ten dollars a week? Should girls invade the labor-mart and chase the boys off the jobs? Have we enough dough to carry us through the Christmas season? Where do gov- ernors and mere congressmen come in beside such questions as these? Shall we simplify our English and ** simpletonize” ourselves still further in our daily speech and conduct? Shall we Uptonsinclairize childhood and marriage and the servant-girl and our neighbor's goods? The election is over, and we are glad of it. But we guess there is plenty still doing in this crazy old world to keep the folks interested. Looks as if Mr. Croker was starting on a tour of vindication. Well, at the rate things have been going of late, New Yorkers may think pretty well of Mr. Croker by the time he gets back here. SIMPLIFIED SPELLERS AND UNSIMPLIFIED TEMPERS. WE NOTE with some concern that the simplified spellers have the or- dinary, old-fashioned, unsimplified tempers like the rest of us. At a recent word convention, language, under the irritant of disagreement, seemed to behave in the old unsimplified way, and the simplifiers made re- marks about each other and to each other in very plain, ordinary correct spelling. The simplifiers were called cranks and crazy fanatics, the new spelling a desecration of our speech. One partisan exclaimed that a sim- plified speller would “murder his own mother and dishonor her grave.” These charges naturally brought hot retorts from the simplifiers, and, as before noted, the spelling-reformers, under stress of temper, were as particular about their spelling as the unregenerate. In spite of all that may be said for the simplification of the English tongue, it is probably true that every arbi- trary effort to change the language will result in failure. A little reflection has shown that the scheme is more revolution- ary than was at first supposed. To change the soeliing of the language at a definite date would require that everything pub- lished here after that date would have to he re-spelled for publication in the rest of the English-speaking world, and vice versa, This of itself must be a tremendous obstacle to any sudden change at any time, The language should be reformed, but the reform must be gradual. Latter when found unavailable cannot be guaranteed. on each and every senarale sketch. The accompanying joke or Inciosure of stamps to the full amount of postage {s also required, 10 izations if that tact be promptly reported oa postal-card or by letter. 'HE Thaw case is giving fresh illustration of our new policy of justice— viz., give a man his term of imprisonment and try him afterward. SOONER or later the doctors tell us everything. They now tell us what the muck-rake is. It’s an epidemic of neurasthenia, That's all it is. ‘A JERSEYMAN in court exclaims that he would rather go to the electric chair than go home to his wife. My! what had the man been doing? YOU can’t tell the quality of the egg from the cackle of the hen, is the latest edict of the agricultural department. The same may apply to politics—what? tae NEW YORK youngster fell seven stories, got up, scratched his head, and remarked, “I enjoyed that fall.” Astonishing how some New Yorkers appreciate a dull, sickening thud. CROOKS FAIL IN AN HONEST GAME. FoR SOME TIME the saying has amounted to almost an aphorism that the talents which go to make a successful thief would achieve a much larger measure of success if honestly applied. But every now and then a fact comes along and knocks all our the- ories of crime and criminals to smithereens. Several stories have cropped up lately which throw a pathetic light on the old saying. One man, a star roustabout and highwayman, turned from his career of crime, slipped away to a new environment, and quietly, diligently, earnestly gave him- self to the task of earning an honest living and making amends for his evil past. After several years of the most painstak- ing effort he confessed himself unequal to the task of earning by honest labor his daily bread. Another man, whose name some years ago was trumpeted from shore to shore as the most skillful exploiter of the people’s savings, who made money so fast that it was a problem from day to day how to take care of the floods of wealth that flowed in upon him, under the tutelage of a prison term was converted and re-entered the world honest and thoroughly renovated in life and purpose. For years he toiled and slaved at a common occupation, and ended in bankruptcy. He did not have brains enough to work the honest game. HEARD his wife’s song and killed himself, says a newspaper headline. ‘Song was ina phonograph. That explains it. CONSIDERING revolution in Russia, it may be well to understand that a kiss on the street over there costs a gentleman $3.75. BOSTON justice is getting more intellectual and refined all the time. A court there sentenced an offender to lie abed every Saturday. How cruei «wie RESIDENT ROOSEVELT must be credited with having done as much as any man now living not only to bring evils to the bar of public opinion, but to apply the needed remedy; and it is worth while to reflect on the fact that he has stayed a regular, loyal Republican all the time. Don’t let any deception draw you away from the party that began with the greatest reform of the century and has been in the van of progress ever since. comicbooks.com