Judge — January 1, 1910 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE PUBLISHED WEEKLY LEsLie. JUDGE COMPANY rthur Terry, Trea in Lee, Managing Eslitor. milton, Art bait JANUARY FIRST. Ww im. wit round : Our hopes with him are now fast bound. NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS BOUT the only time the laid aside is at the New Year. The business house takes its inventory to find out just where it stands. The in- ventory is reduced to cold figures and put on paper. In- ventories of preceding years are taken from the safe for comparison with the one just completed. It is the only way to do business. Why should not aman run his personal the same as his business affairs? Why should not the moral inventory be reduced to black and white, the same as its financial brother? Naturally the inventory of one's self must at best be crude,for there is no standard yardstick. The merchant JUDGE can tell how many yards there are in a piece of cloth, and the banker how many dollars in the safe, Nevertheless, it is only Ly reducing to writing that aman can approximate the closest to a real inven- tory of self. Such an inventory will tell a man just what value he places upon his office, his club and his home. It will tell him how his time—exclusive of that devoted to business—is spent. ‘It will show him upon what things in life he places the highest value, It will let the college- bred man know how close he has kept to the high ideals of undergraduate days. One word more, These moral inven- tories should be dated and filed away for comparison with that of the succeeding year. TAFT'S MESSAGES 'ONGRESS = has__re- ceived its first offi- cial smile from Presi- dent Taft. It may expect others as occa- sions for special mes- sages arise. The first message will com- mend itself to every business man. In the following decision handed down by a Cas Ss “HAVE ANOTHER SMILE WITH ME." It will be an exa ion paper of the lessons a man learned at his mother’s knee. It will indicate how straight has been the furrow plowed by the country- bred youth since he left the old home amid the hills, It will truthfully answer —in one instance at least—the question raised by Leslie's Weekly, ‘* Why don't men go to church?” In short, it will answer a lot of questions which space— no editorial fib this time—prevents men- tioning here. Git 9 614, (pmooPERITy? ¥ SAMY —Frlonri~ FOOLISH QUESTION NO. 999.999, the Washington Post, JupGe concurs: “There is not a syllable in the message which could operate to retard in the slightest degree the resumption of com- mercial and industrial activity. On the contrary, the sensitive heart of business should be quickened and stimulated, as doubtless it will be."’ Another able judge holding the same opinion is the Springfield Republican, which says: ‘ If this is not a business man’s message there never was one. Our foreign rela- tions are considered in their commercial rather than their political aspect. It is so with the near East and the far East countries, and especially so with the nations of our own hemisphere. Has America, with its missions and schools, won the good-will of eastern Asia? It can and should be turned to trade ac- count. Have we gained a more influen- tial position with the countries to the south? It should be used to bring about larger trade relations helpful to the pros- perity and peace of all concerned."” There is ev indication that President Taft's messages, instead of being war whoops of approaching contests between the Big Chief and the Congressional Braves, are going to be quiet invita- tions to legislators to sit down and talk over quietly the great problems that now confront this nation. It may not be out of place to repeat in passing the old say- ing that still waters run deep. Bienes af AAD