Judge — October 5, 1907 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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Hon, $8.50 a yeas The accompanying Joke or descriptive letter-oress should in every instance be toritien uoon its indvoidual picture, and NOT upon a separate siio of paper. inciosare of stamps to the fell amount of postage (s al$0 reavired, 10 insure safe and crompt return of material not accenies MW JUDGE cannot be found at any news-stand, the publishers will be under obligations if that fact be promptly reported on postal-card or by letter. WILL THE CLERGY ORGANIZE AND STRIKE? 'HERE IS some talk of a union of ministers, and since a union generally announces itself by means of a strike the newspapers will no doubt at an early day be headlining a clerical effort to achieve shorter hours and better pay. And come to think of it there is good reason why the minis- ters should undertake this work of protest and appeal. There is ample statistical proof for the assertion that the minister is about the most unfor- tunately-placed man in the community. By education, by profession and environment, he comes nearer representing the most acute schism between means and desire of any class in the community. With tastes refined until only the best things satisfy, and with a purse so limited that only the com- monest things are obtainable, he is really to be pitied. It is the way nowa- days when a man is unhappy in his environment to kick and to get every: body else to kicking who is similarly placed. We, therefore, not only ap- plaud but earnestly urge upon the ministers the justice of a union of the most aggressive type and aims. They ought to dictate the conditions under which they will work. They ought to establish a minimum salary ; say, in the smallest communities, an income at least as good as the pay of a bartender. A first-class pastoral strike, a vigorous challenge to the entire community and a laying down of the law by the whole body of the ministry would probably come nearer success than almost any other union enterprise, no matter on how gigantic a scale. It sounds like a species of blasphemy to speak of a ‘‘ scab’? ministry, and yet its proverbial indiffer- ence to its worldly estate is perhaps less a proof of spiritual worth than a handicap to success in spiritual endeavor. THE LIMITATIONS OF INVESTIGATED PERSONS. PUBLIC RESENTMENT toward those persons charged with predatory practices is rapidly changing to sympathy as fast as they take the wit- ness stand and step forth out of the enveloping corporation mist and become real individuals. It appears at once that they are unequal to the severely intel- lectual wickednesses ascribed to them. For instance, it was not supposed that these servants of the plunderbund knew so little about the businesses Ase THE orrice BOY they serve. It is one of the mysteries of these mysterious days that a man can run a business for years, cause it to prosper, make millions out of it, and yet under oath be innocently destitute of every particle of important knowledge about that business. The rule of success in these monster en- terprises would seem to be that the less you know the better. Of course, in small, trifling undertakings, success depends on knowing the business through and through. Persons deficient in knowledge naturally stir the sympathetic note in the public mind. Persons accused of malicious cun- ning, vast strategy, and prodigious skill, who are found to be entirely lack ing in these qualities, beget in us a quick change of feeling. We see how unfair we have been, how perfectly incapable these people are of doing the astute things charged against them. Also, these brief glimpses of the painful embarrassment of the investigated rich show to the commoner sort of people what a sad fatality there is in the business of million-getting after all. These men do not achieve fortune; it is thrust upon them, thrown at them, they are swamped by it, and they can no more tell how such unfortunate good fortune was visited upon them than they can explain why a cyclone ravages a western prairie. - THE ARRIVAL OF THE COW LUXURIOUS. THE INCREASING fussiness of the public about germs and infections and adulterations is having some results not specifically intended but no doubt welcome just the same. For instance, we are so solicitous about our milk that the noble cow is coming in for such generous treatment that she must be in a state of bovine exhilaration and surprise every day and hour of her life. It is now considered necessary that a cow-barn have non- absorbent floors and cement gutters, plenty of light, cleanliness, steam Pipes for warmth in winter, special milking-suits for attendants, small- mouthed milk-pails, and periodic clipping of the long hair on the cows’ tails and flanks, while the milkers must wash their hands, clean their finger- nails and brush their hair before proceeding to draw the lacteal fluid. We are told of a cow-barn to be erected near Mr. Roosevelt’s home in which blue-blooded cattle will stand in white-tiled stalls, eat from white porcelain mangers and drink filtered water. The windows will be screened and a cooling plant will be installed for summer days and a heating plant for winter. Thus we behold the emergence of the cow luxurious. No doubt her progress from now on will be from silk to satin and from satin to bro- cade and velvet. The next cow-barn planned will probably be hung with old Venetian draperies, the stalls cushioned in plush and the cows’ tails tied with ribbons, with sashes about their necks. poor J.D.! He isn’t a billionaire, after all—only a petty millionaire! A SOFT, cooing sound about now should be coming over seas—Taft trying to rock that Filipino kid to sleep. eee HOEVER did order those cocktails, anyway? Loeb wouldn’t, Presi- dent couldn’t, and of course the V.P.— _ Perish the thought! eee MARRIAGE NOTICE: In Fitchburg, Massachusetts, by Rev. A. Vro- seos Parashaces, Charalamksos Despotopoulas to Demetra Christo- dulopoulas. Joseph Akkiojoglan was best man. Best wishes to the hap- Py pair. Rath Says a scientist, ‘Love begins first with a species of cerebral commo- tion and, secondly, with the stirring of some hitherto dormant associ- ation centres by an appropriate affinitive impression.” You can’t keeo that “‘ affinity ”’ out of it in these times. comicbooks.com