Judge — April 27, 1912 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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E D The Office-boy. Ir BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, philoso- pher, diplomat, kite flyer and job and newspaper printer, were to revisit the glimpses of the moon, he would be amazed at many things, clever as he was in his day. Benjamin, apprenticed to his brother, a printer, disagreed with that worthy and ranaway; but there is no record impugning Benjamin's industry or titude nye It would be more than a3 an office- interesting to ) Franklin to-day modern office build- ing. Complete as are many of the arrange- ments and devices there- of, with automatic and electric aids and labor- saving: mechanism, it has one lack that Frank- lin would quickly dis- cover. He would rage, no doubt, with pictur- esque language, at the office-boy. Whoever has an office-boy rages these days. What has come over of the younger generation who have easy office work to do? Not that the office-boy collec! ination, those ely is an abom- for here and there one may be found so different from the majority of his kind that he constantly de- serves guerdon and ab- ball whether his sences to games, fourth or fifth grandmother be But the many of this adolescent tribe—they, tribal e in their employe periors breaches of manners and mora!s that appall. There be things against which fortitude and patience are impo- tent, and one of these is the office-boy. Where formerly the office-boy was prompt in duty, alert to serve, indus- alive or dead, in fact, are cau 3 and su- T O R trious and painstaking, with definite aims, he is now laggard and unwilling, shiftless when he is not vicious in habit, and he dissipates his time and ruins his health by means which seem to affect his kind like a contagion, He is insep- arable from a cigarette, he reads flash fiction, he seeks the vulgar among amusements, and he carries a degenerate His speech would confuse the compiler of a air in which he seems to glory. IS THERE ROOM FOR THIS ONE? slang dictionary, and his lack of courtesy makes many a business man wonder why trade is falling off. One thing is certain: the office-boy will have to reform or some ingenious inventor will have to devise an auto- matic substitute for him. A L$ The Dark-horse Brigade. Many of the States are making sacri- fices of their favorite sons by putting them into the race for President. While Governor Burke, of North Dakota, does not appear as a very general favorite in the primary voting, the delegates chosen in that State to the Baltimore conven- tion are committed to his support. The Democratic vote at the primaries was very light, even for North Dakota, for many of the Democrats, bent on mischief, voted at the Republican _ primaries, and voted for La Fol- lette delegates, too. However, Governor Burke had no opposition, and he will take his delegates to Baltimore. He can have no real ex- pectation that the Dem- ocratic nomination for President will seek him, and it would be interest- ing to know what he expects to do with his bunch of delegates. The Recall of Rats. Seattle—as enterpris- ing as ever—has entered upon a rat recall move- ment. The health com- missioner of that far Western cradle and nursery of the recall has had twenty-five rats caught and dyed eacha different color, They have been turned loose. In the hope of tracing their movements about the city, the commis- sioner has offered a re- ward of two dollars for the recapture or recall of each of the dyed rodents. The reward is sufficient to tempt Seattle boys to enter the ing business. It will not be surprising if the catch should exceed the output many times. Dr. Wilson has lost the delegates from Illinois to the Democratic National. Convention. That's all. comicbooks.com