Judge — November 12, 1910 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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Portugal, the New Republic. ( THE little sister | Aa republic of Portugal, sy Columbia extends a hand of welcome. Like a little child just start- ing at school, Portugal has much to learn, The first lesson is the lib- erty and education of all. America’s strength will be found not so much in the forts along the shore or in the battleships on the high seas, as in the schoolhouses scattered over all the country. There is no place where the Stars and Stripes look bet- ter than over the little red schoolhouse. “His Honor’? hopes that Portugal will profit by lessons that this country had to learn by costly experience. May civil war never divide the new republic. Bonfireless Elections. HE DECISION of several cities that there should be no bon- fires on election night was doubtless both safe and sane. It follows right in line with the one favoring a noiseless Fourth. But if the movement keeps up, what will be the end? Already it has been suggested that a yell-less college would fill a long-felt want. Women are urging the adoption of a smoke- less pipe in the home. Long ago, in all the large cities, heatless radiators were put into the apartment houses. No home is complete without a fireless fireplace. Police departments in several cities have suggested an ordi- nance insisting upon shootless guns for inhabitants, and citizens have retaliated by a petition that cops be required to carry only strikeless clubs. Will the time ever come when there will be paperless news- papers? The Postal Deficit. CORRESPONDENT calls ‘*His Honor’s” attention to an important omission in the discussion of the postal deficit due to the low rate on second-class mat- ter. The heavy pieces of first-class mail, on which there is a good profit, are generally the manuscripts sent to the magazines and news- papers, Few letters take more than the usual two-cent PUBLISHED WEEKLY ey LESLIE-JUDGE COMPANY 225 Firtm Avenue, New Yor. john A. Sleicher, President. Reuben P. Sleicner Sccretary. “Arthur Tefey, Treasarer. James Melvin Lee, janazing Editor. Grant E. Hamilton, ‘Art Editor. ——_—_—_—— stamp, but the stories and articles mailed by those who are trying to break into print literally eat up stamps by the wholesale. An increased rate on magazine and news- paper postage means fewer publications. With less places as possible markets for their manuscripts, the writers would save that large postage bill which now makes up the greater part of the income from first- class matter. Let the postage on papers be lowered a little, and new publications will spring up. Then that host of rejected manuscripts which are now in writing desks will again be started on their travels in mail cars as first-class passengers. Party Tinkering. UT in Lincoln, Neb., lives a professor emeritus of the art of party tinkering. Long ago he demonstrated that a political party is like a watch. Anybody can take it apart, but putting it together again is hard. But he is not breathing a syllable of his experience for the benefit of any other gen- tleman or gentlemen who may be at this time taking any party or parties to pieces. — THE NEW PUPIL. “Societies for Minding Our Own Business.” [718 & pretty generally ac- cepted truth that what is ev- erybody’s business is nobody's. This fact doubtless is the ex- planation of the formation of “The Society of Minding Our Own Business.’ Most of these societies have been established in the country, but there is no implication that such organiza- tions are not even more needed in the city. The purpose of the society is to see that taxes are spent as they should be, that public officials do their duty, that streets and roads are not defaced with hideous billboards, that schools are kept up to a high standard, etc. This country seems to be organized to death, but there is ‘‘always room for one more” society—especially for one the pur- pose of which is to ‘‘mind our own busi- ness."" cae, Brief Decisions from the ne HE WOMEN mem- bers of the fashionable set in New York could do worse than to carry mag- nificently dressed dolls when out for their after- noon drives, but they would be doing a very charitable act if they would leave these dolls in the hands of the children of the tenements. A laugh is a good thing, even when it is on you. People who get married “just for a joke’? generally have little difficulty in finding out whom the joke was on. City hunters seldom bag anything in the country except their trousers, The ‘‘farsighted man’’ is usually a close observer. It is surprising how many things a woman learns at a cooking school that she never makes use of. If you don’t believe that there is one secret that a wom- an can keep, ask her to give you the name of the toilet pre- paration she uses on her face. The Jack of all trades usu- ally finds that his Jill is mis tress of them all. In Wall Street the safest way to get tothe top is to start on the ground floor.