Judge — January 8, 1910 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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PUBLISHED WEEKLY LESLIE-JUDGE COMPANY Beunewicn Buca, 225 Firm Avenue, New Yous. John A. Sleicher, President. P. W. Schneider, Secretary. Arthur Terry, Treasurer, An Lee, Managing Editor. lanast Hamilton, Art Eslitor. HUNTERS’ DEATH ROLL. HICH is worse, to be killed in a football game, or to be shot while hunting? The list of hunting disasters makes foot- ball casualties seem small. In the hunt- ing season just closed eighty persons were killed andforty three wounded; and this report includes only apart of the country. Deer-hunting is most dangerous, and Wis- consin, with twenty- six victims, and Michigan, with four- teen, continue to lead the list. In the hue and ery that demands the abolition of football, let this list be kept in mind; and it might also be well not to forget the drownings of summer and those of winter in connection with skating; and the “‘ slaughter of the innocents '’ every Fourth of July. RIVALING ROME IN INHUMANITY, OME “‘ exposed "’ all deformed infants and those that did not promise to become strong, healthy children. Declar- ing that the percentage of profes sional criminals who reform is a negligible quantity, udge Amidon, of the U. S. District Court for North Dakota, comes for- ward with the suggestion JUDGE that this class and the hopelessly insane be executed. On the ground that it -osts ‘as much to keep a convict in the peniten- tiary as to give a young man a university education, he holds it is not right to de- Prive a promising citizen of an education by keeping an irredeemably bad man under lock and key. In the first place, no promising young man is thus deprived of an education. -But even were it 80, summary execution smacks too inuch of heathen Rome to appeal to the Christian conscience. More practical, and certainly more humane, is the suggestion of Judge Warren W. Foster, that these classes be prevented from reproducing their kind. ASLEEP AT HIS POST. AN ENGINEER asleep in his cab does not always mean an overworked man. When the midnight express from Boston to New York crashed into a freight at Clinton, Conn., it was widely circulated that Engineer Camp, who fell asleep and ran by signals, did so because he had been worked fifty-eight consecu- tive hours without rest. A little investigation by the New Haven Railroad officials showed that he had been off duty ten hours and expressed no unwillingness when called to take the Boston run. The traveling public must not be put in jeop- ardy at the hands of overworked and sleepy engineers, but it happens some- times, as in this instance, that the fault lies not with the company, but with the engineer who fails to take rest when off duty. THE CROCKER CANCER CRUSADE. 7 AMERICAN universities | have leaped forward in decades as fast as the old European universities have grown in centuries. Large gifts from rich =} men and women have alone made this possible. One of the latest is the bequest of George Crocker to Columbia College of a million and a half dollars for research as to the cause, prevention, and cure of cancer. Despite all that science could do, Mr. Crocker and his wife, five years ago, were both killed by the dread disease. By his wise beneficence Columbia will now be able to launch the most persist- ent scientific campaign ever waged against this destroyer of the race. In accepting the bequest for Co- lumbia, Presi- dent Butler rightly says, “It is by such funds that real universities and real university work are made possible."” The man who thinks it acrime to be rich should remem- ber that the benefits of such gifts and such research will be reaped by all man- kind throughout the world. PFOPLE seem to think it’s just as necessary to talk sbout love in a marriage as it is to mention liberty in a national anthem. WHERE THEY STAND. SHORT HOOTS OF'THE WISE OWL. HE HONEST blow is better than the false ( kiss. ~ “Think twice before you speak’ is good ad- = vice for the witness- stand, but very poor for the drawing- room. Blank cartridges cost less than the real goods. Hence there is a lot of meaning- less noise in this world. About the meanest tattle-tale is* woman's age when it begins to tell on her. Dead men may tell no tales, but many of them have - obliging historians who perform this task for them. The ‘new woman,” like new wine, in- variably improves with age. Treat every girl as you do your sis- ter, and they will all be only sistere THE REAL OCTOPUS.