Judge — December 14, 1907 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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ET ——<—<——— Sor Sw AF T77 TIDY gy (“i ‘ PUBLISHED WEEKLY. 226 Founrm Ave.,New Yorx. Camie Appurss,“Jupcanx.” Txt. 2214 Gramxncr, John A. Sleicher, President. Sect é Soe nae TE Eee ne Be Seen wee eae at Ss ae IES Seer ors oe 10 CENTS A COPY. . W. Schneider, Secretary. Arthur Terry, Treasurer. 225 Fourth Avenue, New York. a guetie Building. Onicago. Ml TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS: Tacloding the CumsraasJooca 7 8S Postage free to all subscribers in the United States, and io Hawaii, Por-o Rico, the Philippine Islands. Goam, Tatuila, Samoa, and Me: Subscriptions payable in advance by draft on New Vork, or by express or postal order, mot poe sete FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS “To all cooniree Eunornan satus-acanrs—/atermational News Company, Bream's building, Chancery Lane. E. ines in the postal umion. $6.$0 a year. Cana rico. acal checks, which, under present banking rigulations of New Vork, are at a discount jn that city. in Provinces, $5 $0 a year. C. London : Brentano's. Arenne del" Opera, Paris: Saarback's News Exchange, Mains, Germany. The contents of FUDGE are protected by cooyright in both the United States and Great Britain. infringement of this copwight will be orompity and bigoroasty oresecutes. CONTRIBUTORS must inctose 4 stamped and self-addressed envelope with all manascriots, otherwise return of the latter when found unavailable cannot be guaranteed. DRAWINGS and all contribations sent to the Art Deoartment should have the sender’s full name and adéress Ywritten plainly on each and every seoarate sketch. The accompanying joke or descriptive letter-oness shoald in évery instance be written uoon tts indtwidaal picture, and NOT upon a separate slio of paper. inciosure of stamps to the fall amount of postage Is also reauined, 19 tnsare safe and orompt return of material not accedtes.. WHO KILLED COCK ROBIN? wet INDIVIDUAL, by his own single-handed, dastardly act, was the ruthless destroyer of our red-breasted bird of prosperity? One can imagine Theodore Roosevelt gazing from an upper-story window of the White House out over this broad land of ours (as though the active Theodore ever wasted time gazing from a window!) and cringing at the sight of a very forest of accusing fingers, all pointed in his direction. Judge Landis, whose famous fine is said to have undermined our faith in that one remaining bulwark, the law, doubtless has seen another, if a lesser, forest waggling reproachfully toward him. State governor’, con- ferring groups of attorneys-general, individual congressmen, all presumably are called upon to cringe in this time of general reckoning. For we are engaged in that most excellent occupation of heart-searching; we are, as the Irish orator put it, earnestly looking ourselves in the face; and it is good for our souls to try to answer all of our own questions conscientiously, nay, prayerfully, even though we answer them wrong. Who caused the panic? Boil the question down a little to get at the essence of it. Confi- dence in one another is the rock upon which our business has builded, and whoever destroyed that confidence is the culprit. To our thinking this business distrust has been rolling along the road like a snowball urged on by many and varied hands. Did Roosevelt, in his plunging pursuit of evil- doers, give it a push anywhere along the way? It seems very possible. And yet surely a nucleus, if only a few handfuls of snow, was formed when a great railroad, high in public confidence, of its own vo- lition investigated the business behavior of many of its old and tried employés, and found them wanting in rectitude. A certain frenzied Bostonian must have done much to roll the little ball along, guiding it to points where the snow lay deepest. Certain insurance men in New York helped to roll it. State politi- cians, misusing their power in various state capitols, helped the thing along. Heinze put his shoulder to the ball, and it grew somewhat unwieldy about that time. A few of these men were well primed for a pretty lively romp in the snow, and they needed no governmental aid to build a good-sized snowball of public distrust. Men of every sort, from labor agitator to capi- talist, brought it along to the brow of a hill, where it got away from control, leaving some de- struction in its downward path. 1M JUDGE canzot be found at any eews-atand, the publishers will be ander obligations if that fact be promptly reported on poatal-card or by letter. AS OTHERS SEE US. THOUGH we are ever ready to have people laugh with us, we need a pretty solid basis of philosophy to enjoy being laughed af. Yet the experience is, nine times out of ten, a salutary one. A man with a sense of humor is less likely to make an ass of himself than one without it. He can see the absurdity of his act, as it would appear in the eyes of others. The influence of our comic papers upon the national character is undoubt- edly great. They make for steadiness of conduct. By the same token it is well for us Americans to learn in what fashion we appeal to the risibili- ties of our foreign contemporaries. And JUDGE will take pains to clip from time to time such little digs as may be aimed at American ribs by these jesters over sea, There is a small assortment on a later page of this issue. : eae IROFESSOR Emil Munsterberg of Berlin wants to know why we put a good man out of office just when he has begun to learn how to handle his job expertly. Dr. Emil might have cabled the question instead of com- ing over. We could better have concealed our blushes. WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE, THE PANAMA CANAL is progressing—Congressman Tawney says it will be done in 1914. A permanent organization has been formed to bring about a system of inland waterways from Maine to the gulf of Mexico. The Cape Cod ship canal moves on apace. Pres- ident Roosevelt boomed the great Mississippi waterways project on his recent western trip. And in the last election an astonishing number of states climbed on to the water-wagon. One more thing to lay to the railroads. Everyone wants to travel by water. NO FAMILY JARS, PLEASE, ORAKER will run for the presidency. Ohio stands aghast, as a proud mother might who is called upon to name pub- licly her favorite among several sons. And Willie and Joe, each holding to a hand, pull at her skirts insinuatingly. Allah for- bid that there be any rending of garments! The good dame stands in a very public place. eee APTAIN LOVELACE, aér- onaut, states that there will not be a standing army in any The injury is done, and some of it is hard to repair; but it will be astonishing to see how quickly the last vestige of such a powerful en- gine of destruction can disappear under a little warm sun! eee ‘AS Mr. Druce of London the Duke of Portland in disguise? We don’t know. Both of them are dead and buried. A descendant of Druce claims to be heir to the duke because, says he, his own father never ex- isted. The duke’s heirs are at least certain there was a duke. Then who in the druce—? nation of the world in ten years, owing to the habit which will then obtain among nations at war of dropping unpleasant fumes and explosives upon the enemy’s troops and fortifications. The captain is about to experiment with certain abandoned forts in the neighborhood of New York. We sincerely trust that, while he is navigating immediately over- head, he won’t forget and let go of anything prematurely. REVISE your Christmas list. Stop giving useless gifts, and remember those poorer than yourself. Christmas is coming! So is an exciting presidential campaign. A subscription to Juvck—fovial old Juvce—would make a splendid present. A year of brilliant political cartoons—a year of keen, Clean humor, with something every week for the children, bless "em! ———-— comicbooks.com