Judge, 1912-05-18 · page 11 of 24
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**"HAUNTED"** (main story): A cautionary tale about ambition and success. Dashaway, a young employee, refuses a prestigious roll-top desk promotion, arguing it encourages laziness and limits opportunity. His honesty impresses his boss (Mr. Quarto), earning him raises and eventual advancement to General Manager. The moral: maintaining integrity and hunger for work outpaces those content with visible status symbols. Percy Putterford represents the cautionary opposite—clinging to punctuality records while stagnating. **"NO COMPENSATION"** (small cartoon): A muzzled dog complains it receives no food compensation for wearing the muzzle—a workplace joke about employees forced into restrictive conditions without benefits. **"FATAL FLATTERY"** (sidebar): An artist connoisseur warns against insincere compliments; flattery led him to accept a mediocre painting ("daub") from a grateful artist, which he now regrets. **Context**: This reflects early 20th-century American business culture valuing hustle, ambition, and meritocracy over class signifiers.
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for work. Said that his main meal was his seven-o’clock dinner. The right bower made a mental note of eccentricity number two and decided that Dashaway was, indeed, out of the ordinary. From then on he began hand- ing him the tangled skeins of business to unravel, and the way Dashaway brought cosmos out of chaos stamped him as the Burbank of business, In less than a year he was receiving nine per week, and three months later he was summoned before the high ace and tendered a roll-top. “Thank you, Mr. Quarto,’’ he said; “but if itis all the same to you, I'd rather not ac- cept it.""| The high ace nearly cast a cataleptic. “*You don’t want a roll- top desk!’’ he spluttered. “Young man, you are the first employe of this house who has refused this mark of appreciation.”” “That may be, Mr. Quarto,”’ replied Dasha- way; ‘‘but I notice that most of your men who hibernate behind the hooded honorarium suffer HAUNTED. from atrophied ambitious. I don’t want a roll-top, because it foreshortens the horizon of opportunity and because it is an incentive to indolence and the pigeon- hole habit. With my old flat-top I’ve got everything in view, and if you care to investigate you will find that the main deck is cleaned up when I-leave it at the close of the day. I don't need a lid to hide the litter.’’ Instead of a roll-top, Dashaway re- ceived a substantial increase, and he's been receiving them ever since, for he now is the G. ‘M. of the concern. He sits behind a sumptuous mahogany flat- . NO COMPENSATION. Puppy—** It would be all right if they would only put something tc eat in my muzzle, too,"” top and has lots of leisure to devote to the pursuit of pleasure, while Percy Putterford is still pottering along on nine per and pointing with pride to his unbroken record for punctuality. A word to the wise is an unabridged dictionary to the ambitious. Yours for success, Y. Y. Guy. Luck. Sigh not for him who finds his bier Unwept, unhonored and unsung; Sometimes it's luck to leave this sphere Unsought, uncaptured and unhung. Fatal Flattery. Art connoisseur— “‘Where did you get this daub?” Friend—"‘1 picked it up in astudio, said something nice about it out of po- liteness, and the artist gave it to me."’ Art connoisseur (sadly) —‘‘You can’t be too care- ful!” Waste no words in ar- guing against a fact. comicbooks.com