Judge — April 15, 1911 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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Caustic Comment. OT MUCH has been said recently about the celebration in 1912 of the one hundred years of peace between the United States and Great Britain. In reality there has not been a century of peace. Dur- ing the Civil War in this country many privateers were sent out from British ports to prey on vessels carrying the flag of the United States. These privateers, nominally sailing undér the Confederate ensign, were owned by English capital- ists, were built in English ports, were manned by English sailors, and were protected in British harbors and waters by the British government. Virtually from 1861 to 1865 a British naval war was waged on the high seas against the United States and its commerce. On land, in British posses- sions, raids and plots against our country were arranged. In very truth the century of peace is a fiction. The New York Leg- islature has before it a bill for the introduc- tion of the initiative and referendum. Near- ly every year the elec- tors of New York are asked to vote on con- stitutional amend- ments. Less than one- third take the trouble to do so. The State virtually has the refer- endum. Its voters are notinterested. Would more referendum make more interest? Boston Wrestling Women. A®°? FROM Boston, of all places, and the Back Bay at that! Fash- ionable boudoirs have become the scene of many an interesting bout—of course, not so much in the direction of the noble art of self-defense, as a beauty program in quest of ruddy health and grace of form. Whatever may be said about it, it is certainly better than the smoking privilege recently inaugurated in one of the exclusive Back Bay women’s clubs. The Defacing Billboard Must Go. UNICIPAL art leagues continue to render public service in combating billboards. When acompany of Russian dancers was taken from New York to Cincinnati, it was planned to bury the city under a coat of paper and printer’s ink. The Municipal Art League told the representative of the dancers that the art-loving element of the community PIAA would be conspicuous by its absence from the festival if the purpose was carried out. The love of art on the part of the people being the excuse for patronage for such a festival, the representative of the dancers promptly canceled the bill- board advertising. Pittsburgh, with her 512,100 square feet of billboards covering over twelve acres, for which she stands, according to J. Horace Me- Farland, president of the American City Federation, the fourth worst billboard city in the world, might well take a few lessons from Cincinnati. Talk Less. HE Amherst Alumni Association of New York is to be congratulated on having had but three speakers at its re- cent dinner. A public dinner ought to be a time of relaxation and ease for every one, except, possibly, the speak- ers. But many a banqueter has been bored and many a good dinner spoiled by too much speaking. A more reasonable hour in beginning and fewer speakers in closing are two much-needed re- forms. Brief Decisions. HE ‘‘born leader” often has a hard time to find his follow- ers. Women find it easier to keep a secret wher they have help. Some men tell the truth because they are too lazy to think of § A GOOD THING FOR THE BOY. William—"' Look, Charlie, dad's old trousers used to be cut down to fit me; Bow ma uses ‘em to make a harem skirt for Anastasia.’" lie. Practice makes pet fect—in honesty. comicbooks.com