Judge — December 29, 1906 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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CONTRIBUTORS mast inciose a stamped and self-addressed ertveiope with all manuscrists, otherwise return of the Latter when found unavailable cannot be gu DRAWINGS and alt contributions sent to the Art Department should have the sender's full name and adiress Yeritten plainly on each and every separate sketch. intees, The accompanying joke or descriotive letter-press should in every instance be writien upon its indtoidual picture, and NOT upon a sevarate slip of paper. Inclosure of stamps to the full amount of postage ( also required, to tnsure safe and prompt return of matertal not accepted. JUDGE canvot be found at any eews-stand, the publishers will be under obligations If that tact be promptly reported on postal-card or by letter. WE ARE ALL GOING TO DO BETTER IN 1907. ‘THE ARRIVAL of a new year means that another big slice ci our allotted days is gone. And yet to most of us it signifies nothing of the kind. Rather, we make merry and wish everybody well, and feel a positive ela- tion at the thought that we are going forward into a new time. This rea- soning is a mystery, like all the rest of the logic of the human heart. But it is normal and healthy, nevertheless, because it indi- cates that we are not so much regretful for times past as we are hopeful and eager for new labors and opportunities in times to come. Here is the fundamental idea of the New-Year resolution. honestly mean always to do better. So mote it be in 1907. We are all going to cease doing those things we should not have done and begin to do all those things we ought.to do. Uncle Sam is going to be juster and fairer to all his world-neigh- bors in 1907, and especially he will be good to his adopted children, the Philippines, Porto Rico, and that lone foundling, Cuba. And the President is going to do better, Teddy is going to put on brakes and make less “ breaks.” And “ Uncle Joe” is going to do better. He is going to give congress a chance. And the senate! Yes, it’s going to do better. We have not been author- ized:to say this, but we hazard the prophecy, just the same, that it will make good. In short, all the people of the United States of America are going to move forward in 1907 along all the lines of individual, industrial and political progress. With this understanding JUDGE offers to all the people his best wishes for a Happy New Year. TAMFORD ministers refused to marry “parties, both of whom are strangers.” Right! People should be acquainted before they get married. WAR TO BE A SORT OF INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL GAME. BEGINS to look as if those big war-ships planned by Uncle Sam would be an unnecessary expense. The dove of peace is no longer a lone bird, but a multiplying flock. With The Hague conference in the spring and President Roosevelt freshly laureled with the Nobel honor, the world takes on a notably more amiable and lamblike aspect. And this in spite of great forces arrayed in opposition. How strange, for example, that such a militant and warlike person as our own President, whose eagerness to fight and to keep on fighting was almost spectacular during the Cuban war and since, must at last be starred before the whole earth as the principal agent for the suppression of war. Not less strange is the fact that the tide of peace is making headway against an enormous revival of military activity throughout the world. The nations are more eager for great bat tle-ships and armaments than ever before, and yet the business of preparing for war is progressing with not a whit more energy than the business of rooting out the im- pulses of war and erecting tribunals that will make battle-fields only a memory. In short, it looks as if we were going to have just as much preparation for war as ever, but no war. The soldier will stay with us because girls, we believe, like soldiers in bright uniforms. But war as an industry seems likely to pass, while militancy is to become a recreation—a plaything of the nations to take the place of football. We humans do _ KARNEGIE klipt konversation kouldn’t konvince kongress. ROTHER RUEF seems to have done well selling rights to the atmos- phere above San Francisco. YOUNG embezzler says he couldn’t be honest on fifteen dollars a week, so he lit out with $1,900. Curious, by the way, that he held an ath- letic medal as a high-jumper. ee T IS SAID that ex-Senator Burton, now serving a term in.jail, reads the Bible every day. The lesson is so obvious that we stiall probably hear of a Bible-class in congress at an early date. f PRINCETON says Mr. Carnegie’s lake is doing, well. It is rumored that the laird’s philanthropy will take this form hereafter. Colleges wishing lakes will apply to Mr. Carnegie direct: : THE MANLESS EDEN ARRIVES VIA TEXAS, AtL HAIL to the manless Eden! It is to be set up in Refugio County, Texas. Five thousand acres will be the extent thereof, and its govern- ment will be a government of women, for women, by women. Mrs. Mary T. Haydon, a Chicago novelist, is the projectorof this manless paradise. She proposes to offer an abiding-place, a future and a fortune to all women who have tired of man and his ways.’ To our mind this beats the Sinclair colony a mile, for the latter offers nothing more novel than a slow-growing row and a smash, while the Refugio Eden promises as much more of both kinds as the imag- ination can measure. We can think of no better way to cover 5,000 acres of this old earth with a shining growth of trouble, for it is pretty certain that a bunch of women who have quit loving the men folks will have little love for each other. It is not proposed, however, to bar men entirely from this Eden, They are to be admitted as husbands i the women so incline, but they are to have no say in the government of the colony, nor any hand in the management of its affairs. This is the menacing aspect of the project. The proposition is not so much to humil- iate man as to crush him. And to think the doom of mere man is to be accomplished in Texas! wenés WASHINGTON Herald is looking up the origins of great me. rally, it gave Vice-President Fairbanks a very long write-up. eens [TIS worthy of note in passing'that when the President’s mad is up he can spell as correctly as anybody. The Storer letter, for. instance. R. ROCKEFELLER is a skillful skater. He can cut a dollar-mark on ice. But, then, Mr. Rockefeller can cut a dollar-mark on most any- thing. THOSE British suffragettes say that, whereas they were lukewarm be- fore, now they are boiling. That’s what six months of politics will do for the women folks. Natu- SEEMS to have occurred to all the parties to the Storer incident that they cannot with propriety say anything more. Might they not with pro- Priety have said less? Bo PRESIDENT THWING forbids a sophomore mock wedding. This, on the eve of the president’s own wedding, suggests that the collegian was in no mood to joke about marriage. comicbooks.com