Judge — April 1, 1911 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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. LX JUDGE No, 1537 Copyright, 1911, by Leslie. Judse Company, Publishers. Entered at the Post-office at New York as Second-class Mail Matter. “Cable Address, John A. Sleicher. Pre James M 225 Fifth Ave , New York . Sieicher. Secretary Lee, Managing Editor. 32 Madison Square. Published by Leslie-Judge Arthur Terry, Treasurer. Grant E. Hamilton, Art Editor. E DI Reciprocity’ Humorous Side. N THE course of an impassioned argu- ment against Canadian reciprocity, Senator Porter J. McCumber, of North Dakota, tried to convince the Senate that the excessive cost of living was not up to the farmer at all, but due to ex- travagances and demands for extraordi- nary service, and that the farmers’ share in excessive prices is practically nil. To illuminate the point, the novel experience of a farmer visiting New York is best recited in the Senator’s own words: Ashe leaves his cab he pays for fare after hav- ing been driven eight or ten blocks, six bushels of cats, and as a compliment to the driver for his very moderate charge; he. tosses bim fifteen heads of cabbage. He registers at a hotel and is shown by the bellboy to the elevator. Ashe nears the tenth floor, he responds to the expectant look of the ele- vator lad with a couple of dozen eggs. The bellboy lingers at the door of his room and is rewarded for his anxiety over the comfort of the guest witha bushel and a half of barley, It takes a quarter of a ton ot hay for breakfast, and. be gives the waiter two bushels of pota! His noon lunch is one Sheep, witha bushel anda half of carrots for the waiter. In the evening he consumes four bushels of rye, and the waiter gets @ bushel of onions to dream on. And when he settles for his room the landlord is the recipient of halfa carload of turnips. Thus may even reciprocity be made to “add to the gayety of nations.” But, after all, the Senators and other farmers of North Dakota do not have to resort to this grasping great city and toss their hard- earned crops around in such reckless fashion. Staying at home, they may ride in automo- biles and give to the country an example of frugality and the sim- ple life. When is a Kiss Not a Kiss > WHEN it is on the stage. Over the long-<sawn-out ‘*Na- toma kiss’’ witnessed at the premier per- formance of ‘‘Na- toma,’’ the new Amer- ican grand opera, Philadelphia was all agog. In the fervor of her indignation, Miss THE QUESTION BEFORE THE HOUSE: “Can he fill them ?"’ TORI Grenville, the guilty principal of the inci- dent, declares that on account of the “make-up” the stage kiss does not really exist at all, and that all artists are more concerned with preserving the “make-up’’ unsmirched than with a “miserable, paltry kiss that happens to be called for by the libretto.” Pretty severe epithets these to be hurled at an innocent kiss; but to be assured that some, at least, of the gushing that we see on the stage is only make-believe is a distinct relief. Honesty in Gambling Impossible. HE SPECTACULAR police raids on the gamblers of New York show how little chance a man has of getting fair play ina gambling house. Roulette tables with lead in place of steel frets, causing balls to ‘‘fall dead’’ instead of bouncing as they should; ball grooves equipped with needle points which deal- ers could operate by pressing electric buttons under the tables, and faro boxes “‘stacked’’ with cards so fixed that they would come out in favor of the estab- lishment are some of the devices brought to light. At one of the places raided, as the policemen with crow- bars pulled apart the gaming tables and un- covered the wires and other devices which had been used to cheat, the crowd of losers started a demonstra- tion, to check which the police had to desist from their work of destruction, But it is absurd to expect gam- bling to be conducted on amoral basis, for the very nature of the business precludes anything else but an attempt to get other people’s money, if not by fair means, then by foul. Only 50 Cents pisces in your this ele- Justabli position. 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