Judge — October 8, 1910 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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“JUDGE Men and Matters of Moment. ILLIAM ALLEN Wuite—There are Doubt! Ww many worse things in life than being born in Kansas. ‘‘Bill"’ White takes his lot philosoph- ically. He runs Emporia and the Gazette, makes newspaper men, Senators, and Gi ernors; draws word-pictures of celebrities, goes to New York often for his royalti and takes genuine pride in being a fore- runner of things original, if not altogether sane. W. A, takes keen pleasure in diag- nosing his country’s ailments. His famous “The prescription for Kansas, though somewhat profane, seemed destined to give him the To stop the pudgy editor glad for a true Mr. diagnosing habit. from diagnosing would be to depriv Kansan of his one best exercise, but even ~ SPIRIT RAPPING: Wife (from above) —"* Who s that rapping Husband —"*'S the sbpirit of your beloved bushband wish ing to communicate wiz you." White was not the father of insurgency, but he officially actsas step-brother. In a pinch he might consent to sit at the head of the table in La Follette’s legal station. He speaks bluntly, writes with pudgy-fingered frank- ness, smiles Irishly, and—in Kansas — rules calmly. Editor White, we like your Sunflower conscience. Its elastic proclivities make it almost a national rubber plant. We liked your boy stories written by an over- grown boy, we liked your long-winded novel, we like your Gazette and your homely humor. Only we want to dingnose a /ittle, ourselves. Von't do it all. If you feel it coming on, try verse. Mrs. You: or OLp Cuicaco—The feminine and learned pedagogues of the Windy City have at last a chance to rise from their degrading tyranny. We know this from the various resolutions, passed by enthu- siastic district teachers’ meetings, which the tem- porary secretary had put in the dailies of that village. Just what this downtrodden condition was we know not. not distributed evenly. frail little schoolmarm never enjoyed the privilege of taking her se ing county institute. Mrs. Ella Young has done tar more than her near neighbor, Miss Jane Addams. way, we are next to certain that Chicago's first lady superintendent of schools our great applause. ing needs sympathy in addition to liberal pay, and Mrs, Young should be termed, Fair Pedagogues’ True Power to s under male rule the paddles were Possibly, ing when attend- Such being the case, Any- worthy Heaven knows, teach- Mother."" We are We ye, superintendent! your meteoric rise. never heard of you, we confess, until a year ago; now we have seen a hundred ar- on your great worth and many magazine likeness- ‘em all enough whips to line up Chicago youth! And, as you gain confidenc your flock to give up Emerson and take up Riley. Wooprow Witsox—The pr dent of Princeton University has knowingly slid into polit He has been nominated for Governor by the Democrats of New Je What will result? Numerou things, nodoubt. Achin that h: been photographically raised to an angle of forty-five degrees should ly go ninety. Pockets once used for conveying economic in- formation in the form of note- books must make room for cam- paign cigars. Nose glasses that at at aclassical tilt must be es. Giv THE MODERN EVIL GE THE BOTILE. discarded and smoked glasses hide the vision from the swarm of office-seekers. Speech that erstwhile was fraught with scholarly diction must descend to campaign statistics and vindictive bellowing. And should the doctor be clected? Perish the mere suggestion! Our uni- ities would all lose their heads. Latin instructors would all run for mayorships, and English literature would soon be bereft of its critics, who chose rather the toga of a Norman Mack or Lighthorse Tom Taggart. Ph. D.'s would ripen only to turn Senators, and a college diploma would mean only two terms in the House. Congress would be an educational con- vention. Sse Squirrel —* So you are moving to the moon ?"" Ir. Bird—""Yes ; this aeroplane-infested neighborhood is no place to raise children."*