Judge — May 14, 1910 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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A SQUARE DEAL FOR THE COUNTRY EDITOR. of cost, a man’s name and ad- dress on stamped envelopes purchased in quantities. This is the last straw. Country editors have seen the best of local jobs go to city firms, who use auto- matic presses; they have seen the can- cellations come in with every mail, be- cause rural free delivery brought the cheap editions of city dailies; they have accepted type in payment for foreign ad- vertising, and traded out local advertis- ing until there was no more money in the wooden cigar box on the shelf; they have printed gratuitously local notices, knowing full well that city papers get big prices for similar service—these things, and many more, the country edi- tors have done without a word of com- plaint, but they do not propose to com- pete with the government's offer of free HE COUNTRY editor is up in arms against the govern ment, because the latter offers to print, free printing. There is a lot of ‘* hoss sense" in the position taken by these country editors. Why should you and I pay for the print- ing of Bill Smith’s stationery. If the printing presses at Washington and else- where would otherwise be idle, let more of ‘Dr."" Wiley’s nonsense books be printed. Of two evils choose the less. But in this case no choice is necessary, as the presses of the government have got all they can do with regular work without either competing with country newspapers or airing the whims and fancies of ‘* Dr.’" Wiley. Give the coun- try editor a square deal. OBJECTIONS TO CARICATURES. HE CARICATURE of the Jew in the magazines and on the stage has leaped all reasonable bounds, thinks the Rev. Jo- seph Silverman, rabbi of Temple Emanu-El, of New York. The rabbi entertains a grudge, too, against W. Shakespeare for his Shylock, and, back of that, Mar- lowe’s Barnabas, holding that Shy- lock is but an imi- tation of Barnabas, and that in both in- stances the drama- tists made a cheap appea! to the gal- leries, doing great van money-saving device for both black and white pugilists. JUDGE PUBLISHED WEEKLY LESLIE-JUDGE COMPANY Beunsmice Avenue, New Yous Grant violence to the real Jew. Carlyle, Thack- eray, and Dickens are also cited as of- fenders, but the chief charge is against the Jewish caricature of the present-day magazine and stage. Junce quite agrees with Dr. Silverman that the ‘* invidious effect of ridicule is hard to overcome,” and is ready to acknowledge that, like ‘one or two other good things, even cari- cature can be abused. But it is not without some virtue. A few telling strokes of the cartoonist’s brush will often tell astory better than many words, And whether caricature and cartoon a to be condemned or not depends altogether on how the criticism is made. Nor can the Jew claim to be specially singled out. The countryman, the suburbanite, the Irishman, the German, the American, the negro, Uncle Sam, and particularly our Presidents are all freely cartooned and caricatured. When this is done in good humor and without evil purpose, as is usually the case, even those who are caricatured laugh with the rest, so we JUDGE'S AUTOMATIC TRAINER. Has adjustable beads. fail to see what harm is done. The late George William Curtis used to be carica- tured as a man in petticoats, and yet he never had a new photograph taken with- Zone to Junce. His example respectfully commends to Rabbi Silverman, THE UNDERPAID CLERK. PPLICANTS ) A for positions in the Census Bureau are con- fronted with the fact that the government ac- tually pays more to laborers than to scores of its clerical workers, Because the law requires it, la: borers recently engaged are paid per annum, and this is none too much. At the same time, many scores of persons who, after examination by the ci-:' cerv- ice commission, have entered the serv. ¢ in a clerical capacity are allowed, accord- ing to the rating fixed by Director Du- rand, but $600 per annum. This is economy with a vengeance, but at the wrong place. We are not surprised that the last examination failed to produce sufficient clerical force to do the work. In view of the cost of living, $60 a month is not too much for a laborer. For the me reason, $50 a month is too little for the clerical worker, who, in addition to standing an intellectual test the la- borer knows nothing about, has also to live ona slightly higher plane than the lat- ter. Manifestly it is asking a good deal of a civil-service employé to maintain his proper station in life on $600 a year. It is well to bear in mind that the class which feels most the pinch of high prices is not the laboring man or me- chanic, but small-salaried people—book- keepers, clerks, school teachers, minis- ters, etc. Eight or ten years ago the salaries of this class bore a reasonable relation to the cost < of living, but in the hundreds of thou- sands of instances where the salary has not been ad- vanced, that rela- tion has been wrenched out of all just proportion. In such homes, especially in those where there are children still too young to assist the father in the fami- ly support, it has come to bea life- and-death struggle to keep the head above water.