Judge — July 2, 1910 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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CRACKER NUMBER PUBLISHED BY LESLIE-JUOGE COMPANY It Is To Laugh. HE Hon. Jonathan P. Dolliver is nothing if not a humorist. Here is one of his choicest bits of humor with which he recently favored the Senate: “If we insurgents have made any mistake, it is that we have remained silent too long while a campaign of def- amation has been going on against us." Who ever heard of an insur- gent keeping quiet ten minutes—or even less? No wonder Senator Dolliver's remark was received with a smile. Grafters. ANCIENT Greece left many valuable legacies to the modern world, Ithas remained for Shailer Mathews, Dean of the Divinity School of the U: versity of Chicago, to ‘ point with pride’ to the greatest achievement of Pericles. To quote from an address by Dean JUDGE Mathews on “‘ Art and Ideal- igm in Ancient Athers’’: “Pericles was a grafter. He spent the money which he had collected with which to wage war against Sparta in building the Parthenon. How much better for the world of the future that he did thus misuse the funds! done what he professed waged more war with Sparta —the Acropolis would now be only a bare hill. He was an idealist, and helped to build the culture of his city."’ Thus is America robbed of the glory and grandeur of grafting that she once thought was her especial property. Once again is proved the truth of the as- sertion that there is nothing new under the sun. To Greece belongs the olive crown not only in art and literature, but also in grafting. Low-down Trick. THE LATE champion of the ring, John L. Sullivan, has his doubts about how much space newspapers will give to his words these days, but he thinks that the Creator played a low- down trick on the Irish when He made Roosevelt a Dutchman. High Cost of Living. UDGE has several times called the attention of read- ers to the increased cost of living and also of loving. For not only has the cost of food- stuffs risen, but also the cost of chucolates and bonbons. Many reasons have been given for the change in prices. Attention is called by an able economist to the following considerations, which seem to have been overlooked in the discussion: ‘Automobile tires are now two inches larger than they were five years ago and cost more when they burst. The price of theater seats for good attractions has gone up to two dollars. Whenever any one has a nickel left downtown, the moving-picture “*ALMOST OUT!"" TSR Pe reaiew ss FULL OF WHAT? show gets it, Ten years ago a piano cost four hundred dollars and we didn’t have any. Now it costs one dollar per week and we are paying for two—the present one and the one which wore out last year. Taxicabs have gotten so cheap that it now costs eighty cents to ride home after midnight instead of ten cents by owl car. Talking machines are now a necessity, whereas ten years ago they were a luxury. Food is now put up in such handsome packages that we buy each year more than twenty-five dollars’ worth of labels, which are not in any way nourishing. Most of us have larger families than we had ten years ago."’ Handed across the Sea. UDGE wishes to congratu- late the Tokyo Puck upon the latter’s “* Nagoya Exposi- tion Number.” It is always with pleasure that “His Honor "’ looks over each week this contemporary from across the sea. Printed half in English and half in Japanese, it contains much to interest the student in world politics. Some of its cartoons are intelligible only to those familiar with the legends and mythology of old Japan, but their strength and influence are self-evident. Incidentally, the Puck is one of the most progressive publications in all Japan.