Judge — May 16, 1908 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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Hrunswick Mullding, 225 Fitth Aven New York. Cable Address, “Judgark." Tel, 6632 Madison Square. JOHN A. SLEICHER, President. FLW. Sclineiler, Secretary. Arthur ‘Terry, Treasurer. Burges Johnson, Managing E Once 1490-7 Marquette Building, Chicago, it tor. ant Hamilton, Art Edit, 1) WEEKLY AT 10 CENTS A COPY. un New York, of Ly express of postal wuntents of FUDGE are erotected by coovrwuht in both the Unites States and Great INTRIMUTORS must inciose 4 stamped and sell addeessed enioeiope with all manascmDts, otherivise return uf the Latter when found wnavarlacie cannot be yaar’ M1 JUDGE cannot be loved at any acwe-stand, the pubiladers will be wader obligations if that fact be promptly reported oa postal-card or by letter. STUNG! ser yolis, sold us an amusi dote abe which was advertised for »: In the confusion incident to our fire and the instant need of contribu » bought this, only to after its publication that no lexs aon Will Nye had anticipated us, and writt this selfsame ancedote, word for word, several The joke, so far as it ix a joke, was on us, re is very little exeuse for our failure to recognize f Bill Nye’s most charucteristic ut every day at the editorial desk of ras this, How is rtal editor to know what iz new and what is not? Hix only protection ix: the square-dealing: of his contributors, Of course plagiarism ix not always intentional, A man hears a joke and it becomes part of his inner consciousness, At some later date he evolves: it asain and honestly believes it to be hix own, suggested by some vague re tion, What we believe to be instances of this turn up in the manuseript pile every day and seme, of course, slip by into print, But when a story comes to us word for word, as we have seen it written else: where, but inclosed with other matter which the contributor submits as * al," our only course is to distrust the originality of all of the manu- xeript which that contributor may chance to submit then or atother times, A little black- ist is a desirable adjunet to any editorial desk. ‘The white list ix always in existence as an inevitable result of long and friendly dealings with clever and honorable con- tribute “WAR IS HELL.” HERE once was a battle- ship fleet No rivals on earth could defeat But it lost all its spunk And was beaten and sunk With too many victuals to eat THEIR PENANCE. BEYAN bee: been called many things by his opponents, but it was supposedly a friendly voice the other « p referred to him as the “hui shirt of the Democracy."" ‘This, toour thinking, is: the I. He is the sackeloth which the Democracy ing for its sins of spinclessness and « In the course of a few months he will also be the ash perhaps the penance will be complete. E GREETINGS. Jes ‘lity will develop th : man—prov- ing him, as it were so, too, does it act upon cities. In doing honor to the fleet the various settlements of t done to thems: does any motive n to have triumphed noticeably over that of 1 pride. ‘The personal wel f et given by other cities, without mon vithout price, foul acontrast in this one town, Fortunately cing, by the merchants, even had it bee r, could not bal- ints for the whole sailors must con- to feel for the rest of their lives + of oblig: i their side for the won- ful reception accorded them 4¢ thee entire she EVE nt into a penny chine to set a piece of chocol our intense delight, two pic fell out ever before the universality of the human desire to something for nothin constantly buy ol want it or not, repetition of that occurrence, We begin to fear thi i-sambling crusade hundred ¢ Law cannot regulate indi J morals, We do not believe, however, that th forees of the Law should be in colli m with the forces of immorality WE ARE SARE WITH THIS LIFE-PRESERVER ABOARD, comicbooks.com