Judge — March 16, 1912 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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The Happy Influence. MAGINE, if you can, the possibilities of daily human contacts in any com- munity, great or small, if everybody carried a sour face and voiced a grouch! People would grow quickly to hate the sight of one anothcr. Evil passions would develop to domination, and crime abound. Life would not be worth the living. Few would care to pursue it under a pall of constant melancholy or something worse. It would be as though 1] perpetual clouds overcast | the sky and an east wind were forever blowing. Without flowers, the songs of birds, the happy sounds of nature, the sun and the stars, what should | we do? | The world moves and mankind develops and achieves because there is joy in life. Without joy there would bestagnation. A smile in its place is a stimulant—a happy word an inspiration. There are work and duty in which communica- tion should be as terse as the ‘‘yea’’ and ‘‘nay’’ of the hermit; yet there is something finer in life that makes work and duty possible. Be amiable, agreeable, helpful, if you cannot be merry and inspiring! And read Jupce al- ways. A Strenuous Senator. When the Kentucky Legislature recently set about electing a United | States Senator, one of the | members described Ollie James as ‘‘the greatest living Kentuckian."” Mr. James was elected Sena- tor. He has a giant's frame, possesses a voice that will carry a long dis- tance without the aid of EDITORIALS a telephone wire, and once, in a rage, kicked in a door in the Capitol at Washington. Possibly when he is judged by his record in the Senate, Mr. James will not seem so great, even to partial Kentuckians. “‘EVERY ROSE MUST HAVE ITS THORNS." Goats! Somebody must always be the goat. Just now it is popular to make the bank- ers carry the load. A patriotic Baltimore steamship man named Baker sought to promote, very properly, an American steamship line to take advantage of the Panama Canal. He needed a good many millions to carry out his plans. The money ought to have been subscribed at once, but it wasn’t. Captains of industry are not promoting new enterprises in these troublesome times of trust-busting and railroad- smashing. We don’t blame them. Mr. Baker jumped to the conclusion that he couldn’t raise his $15,000,000 because the bankers and the railroads were blocking his plans. He gave this statement out. It was greedily printed by all the muck-rakers. A congressional investigation was begun, of course. Here was a chance to smash the ‘money trust.’’ Mr. Baker was put on the stand. Everybody expected that a gang of selfish schemers was about to be exposed. Mr. Baker appreciated that testimony must be based on facts, not on rumors. He admitted that he had no substantial evidence to support his suspicions. He could not get the millions he needed for his enterprise, so he assumed that the bankers and the railroads were blocking his propo- sition. He made them the goat. Nobody, we presume, can blame Mr. Baker. He is doing what every- body else, in this age of hysteria, finds it is fash- jonable to do. Get a goat! You can always find one in a-bank, a railway office, or in any of our great manufacto- ries. They are all full of goats. Get one while the supply lasts. “It won’t last long. Alas! So Soon. ‘A boom for Hearst ir California is reported to have fallen flat. Evi- dently Mr. Hearst is be- coming economical. comicbooks.com