Judge — March 14, 1908 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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k. Cable Address,“ Judgark.” Tel, 6032 Madison Sq . President. F.W. Schnevler, Secreaty. Atthur Terry, Treasurer, 0130-7 Marquet Fn Chicago Ut t Hamilton, Art Editor. Brunovick Building, 225 Fifth Aves Ne JOHN A, SLEICH Westen Anvaetrsing ¢ Burges Johnson, M. Sabseriptions payable in advance by draft on New Vork, or by express or postal order, met by loval checks which areata disvount in New York Cty Han Provinces 5 The comtents of JUDGE are erotected by coowriaht in both the United States and Great CONTPIRUTORS mast inciose 4 stamped and seit-adsvessed endbelove with all manuscnpts, lothevinise revurn of the Latter wonen found unavailane cannot te guaraneede MW JUDGE cannot be foun’ st any newn-stand, the publlabers will be onder oblita'ions if that fact be promptly reported om portal-card or by letter, PERSONAL FREEDOM. he might freely yell at the top of his voice every morning. before VERY man is breakfast and be the etter for it. So long as he is one of a com- wn master, his own mas. munity he is not his ter,” isan ‘This personal-freedom question is no light matter, and it is a Our anc ent the. long way from solution. ‘thet a and a theugh it mi nt Anglo-Saxon common kaw if the fa ht add considerably to his ake there, Rather it is the ri und all. What with the state and our ne » think cut off his own e: strikes him, even ory by this we wks. “The comfort of his pt of the state h theery that pars is whole citizen, has suffered te i bors all re; tudes than me ilating, our personal habits, we ha most proposi at racetracks is disc ar legislators; government is es. “There have ble that tions advane- taking a hand in the regulat ate Int cd by human — been grave abuses of per al freedom in the | uses of Once upon a — reaction. None of the time the idea tly at the first tris philosophers. — there will be mmunity control inthe future by way of yf to be settled all at once or are living in a eof teomendously was foreign tot , and we have fewer a vms ty go by than we whole think world’s way ‘ale Bork ‘ For ourselves, realizing, that leg tion is now the fad. of thinking; then it was discovered, and proselyted, and fought for; to matters within our own p fining our attent pon we propose ed; later still it was a trui later it was enshrined and we for punsters and the for traint of individuals an axiom, & monotonous ¢ whole structures of philosophy a the world swings around, we dig it out from under the COPIES OF JUDGE WANTED. it isn't sol Omitting such tires cussions as whether a man HE destruction of the filesof LESLIE'S WEEKI ess to suit himself, or do what he pleases sily at their own jokes nd government. But now ne nd JUDGE We shall be glad to hear ve bound or unbound files of these can run his own bu t hy fire leaves our records incomple: t, we find ch times as he pleases, of work at such wages as he ean Jom tely from these who h more 1 of personal fre elves today facing the que 1s, from which missing numbers ean be supplicd for ye: rs, i intimate matters of private living. How much noise is a free citizen or parts of years. We shall pay a satisfactory price for the stme. | entitled to in his own right? Soise is good forus. As babies, we were urged te yell at the top of our lungs. Ac © nding tothe Baby Column | inthe “Perfest 1 } will cure anyth baby. from pip to housemaid’s knee.” Vet, despite the trath of all this, up everywhere societies there are risi the suppression of noise ‘Their theory is that) any- thing which disturbs our hh by law. ‘The retort that our + should be prevented bors possess the inalien able right: of moving out of carshot is not_an argument And the worst of these reformers ngs ground Where is it all to end? ‘The fact that we are gregarious is at the root of all the trouble If every citizen lived on his own square mile of ground DONT FORGET THIS." comicbooks.com