Judge — March 26, 1910 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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PUBLISHED WEEKLY LESLIE-JUDGE COMPANY FOREST SERVICE, A PUBLICITY Bureau for _ the Forest Service, S— costing last year $70,000, is one of travagances the congressional inquiry has brought to light. That is a big sum for one depart- ment of the government to spend upon press agents to care for its interests throughout the country * and make the people think well of its work. Efforts are being made do extend into all other departments this method, which was introduced by the Forest Service. ‘‘No man,’’ says Rep- resentative Tawney, commenting upon it, “can get information except that pre- pared by these publicity bureaus, and it is colored to suit the policy of the depart- ment."’ This method of blowing their horns through government-paid press EASTER THOUGHT. Husband: agents savors too much of the advertising methods of a theatrical syndicate to be palatable to the people’s taste. We want all the information possible about what the government is doing in its various departments, but it need not be derived through government-subsidized publicity bureaus, SHOES THAT PINCH. A RECENT shipment of Engli to this country may fill the hundreds of sure gents’ with joy, but the thousands of employés of our American shoe factories will hardly hail it with delight. The trade i to be all one way, but under the new tariff, reducing the duty from twenty-five per cent. ad valorem to ten per cent., twelve cases have come in at the port of New York from a Leicester fac- tory. These English shoes are made with American machinery, but with cheap for- eign labor, and it is easily seen what will happen to our own shoe industry unless we afford it sufficient protection to meet the more cheaply produced English goods. shoes used THE MOTHER OF “BLIND PIGS." I would like to know who laid that egg.” While this first shipment is small significant, because it is a ‘* fe it succeeds we may look for a determined effort to secure a foothold for English goods in this country. Then we shall see American factories cutting down opera- tions and many thousands of American workers looking for new joks. The Eng- lish-made shoe ought, therefore, to pinch the foot of every loyal American who tries to wear it. But a surer way to reack the result desired is to give the American- made shoe ample protection. PEN-POINTS. ihe IS, of course, well not to let your troubles disturb you, but no one can proper- ly find fault with a young man who has been kicked out of the house by his best girl's father for feeling put out. The philosopher who observed that little pitchers have big ears might have added that they spill far tooeasily, besides. If Britannia was the mother country, as our forbears used to believe and state when occasion demanded, it may be said of our taxes that they year by year sug- gest more and more the kind mother used to make, The muck-rakers apparently believe that we should bare the ills we have, be- fore going on to others we know not of. We must not despise the pot-boiler. If the pot had not been boiling at the time, how would Watt ever have discov- ered the possibilities of steam? We must judge men by their capacity to do, not for their lack of deeds. Who ever blamed a hen because she could not lay a brick? How more than passing strange it is that the man with the pinhead so seldom comes to the point. After all, Polonius, if Ananias had not been a liar, his fame would have per- ished off the face of the earth. comicbooks.com