Judge — March 9, 1912 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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E D I Forward ! Ove SOMETIMES sees a boy who has coasted rapidly, accurately, and with exhilaration downhill seek to discover a novelty of experience by try- ing to make the same journey backward on his sled. The result always brings a new sensation, but it is seldom persisted in. Straight ahead, facing the road, is the best way not only in coasting, but in all the efforts of life. If Nature had designed us to go backward, we should have eyes in the back of the head. Progress is made only by moving forward, in thought as well as in action. The same lesson is taught in all the activities of life. One may drive a horse forward with ease, but backing the animal is another matter. A ship, great or small, moves forward in response to applied power, but to navigate it the other way is more difficult. Forward is the right rule in everything. Of course Nature now and then furnishes a paradox while illus- trating her logical purposes. The crab, of all creatures, walks backward. But who wants to be a crab? Woman's Logic. California's first woman jury acquitted a newspaper editor who was charged with having printed in his paper matter that was obscene and indecent. The jurors held that the editor had simply reported a public conver- sation, which they found was profane, but not indecent, and they added that the words were less shocking than those they frequently heard on the street, for the utterance of which no one was ever arrested. The second jury in the golden State re- turned a verdict of not guilty in the case of a woman who was accused of having thrown a stone through a plate- glass window. The woman. window, and stone were put in evidence. The jury, however, found that the woman, being a woman, could not have thrown the stone through the window if she had u T O R I taken aim, and if she had not, she was, of course, innocent. In the first case the women jurors were magnanimous, because the editor was against equal suffrage, and in the second instance female logic triumphed. Diaz in the Swim. Porfirio Diaz, former titular Presi- dent of Mexico, is now an exile in Europe. He is one of the men you can’t THE QUESTION WHO WILL BE ON TOP WHEN THE PRESIDENTIAL WHEEL STOPS? keep down. The Swiss government has recently decorated him with a gold medal for rescuing a child from drown- ing in a Swiss lake. The little one had toppled over into the lake and was just sinking when Diaz jumped into the water and after a long swim made the rescue. He deserved the medal and one from the Carnegie hero fund, which he is likely to get. This grizzled veteran of eighty-one years is by no means a has-been yet. e A L S.. Two Points of View. ‘The Cape Cod ship canal is at last an assured fact, and Boston is rejoicing in the possibility of bringing New York City so much nearer. As for New York, it is doubtful whether she has yet fully realized that the same event will bring Boston just so much nearer to Manhat- tan Island. Science and engineering are eliminating mere distance year by year. It seems hard to realize that real Boston beans and brown bread may be drawn fresh from the wood in any New York restaurant before long. If the distance grows much shorter, take care, Squantum, lest the Tammany tiger fix his eye on your succu- lent and sacred codfish! Where Will It End? There seems to be a likelihood that we shall have a modified par- cels post before many sessions of Congress have passed by. It is strange that we have not had such a law before now, since we are transporting large packages for foreign senders across our coun- try under the parcels post regula- tions of their home governments. It is sure to come, and the inter- esting speculation is, Where will it stop? Affixing a stamp to a barrel of apples and mailing it to any point is not a vague dream. That is already done in some parts of Europe. The question lies here: If a barrel of apples, why not a human being, who may easily weigh less? Such a par- cel would be easier to handle, because it could, in a certain measure, look out for itself and would be less likely to spoil in transit. All things are probable under a progress- ive government. We foresee that some fashion note in a daily paper of the fu- ture may read: ‘‘For ladies traveling by mail, it is au fait to wear the postage stamp over the left eye. It should be set straight, however, asastamp slightly askew gives a jaunty appearance that is not good form.’’ Responsibility cannot be Schiffted. comicbooks.com