Judge — February 21, 1914 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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Washington THE BIRTHDAY of the Father of His Country is again at hand. That Washington’s reputation as the father of a country is still good abroad is shown by the immigration statistics. Peoples from the world over keep coming, and although a city or a lo- cality here and there has some difficulty in working the muscles of degluti- tion, the masses of raw material are swallowed, and finally are on their way to reasonable assimilation. Washington was not a man given to nervousness or susceptible of quick sur- prise; but if he could by any means again visit the glimpses of the moon, especially in this metropolis, he would think his country had been going some. The chief thing about Washington that impresses at this distance of time is the dignity that distinguished him. He moved slowly, but surely. The records are full of it. Yet withal he was human, as the traditions also show, and this char- acteristic makes him the dearer. But if Washington were to visit New York City on any business day, his re- pose of manner would quickly disappear. Imagine him, if you can, getting a crick in his neck trying to compass the height of some of the buildings; and watch him in your mind’s eye as he seeks to thread the crowds in the streets or cross Fifth Avenue at its busier corners. There are many more things in this town than were ever dreamed of in his philosophy, and ten thousand times ten thousand more the country over than the wildest imagination in his time could have conjured. Nothing like Washington's influence upon growing generations for truth has ever come from any other. There are un- believers who ridicule the hatchet-and- cherry-tree incident, yet although it is the nature of boys to lie after wrong- doing this story in the mouths of mothers has choked down denials and stimulated confessions in millions of youngsters, and yet other millions because of the legend will out with the truth and not only take the consequences, but finally be the bet- ter for it. Brief Decisions THAT scientific proposition that the weather can be regulated by man sounds plausible enough; but how about regulating the boy with a new sled and the girl with a new hat, both on the same day? ’ There are some pleasures in ice boating that may be experienced by falling off a train of cars or getting in the way of an auto. ia) Governor Cole Blease’s friends say Cole is the source of power. His enemies say Cole is the source of gas. Skiing may be some sport for those who know all about it, but to a majority it would be an acquired taste. By the way, in preparing the list of en- tries for the international ‘‘Meanest-Man- in-the-World’’ race, don’t forget the man who mortgages his life-insurance policy. = A man who will stand deliberately and shoot a penguin that looks him in the eye ought to be around when the lions break out. Another Scientific Experiment HAT is an unusual experiment along extremely novel lines now in progress at the city jail in Oakland, Cal. The health director of that city, in conjunction with the professor of nu- trition at the University of California, is providing { rf a scientific diet for pris- oners, on the theory that oy] “malnutrition is responsi- ble for criminality in many cases, and by proper feed- ing of criminals their evil tendencies may to some extent be removed.’’ There is something in this up to acer tain point. It is true, no doubt, that the usual gruel, black bread and phantomic soup served in many prisons have a tend- ency to make prisoners glad that they have committed crime, and inspire in them a fervid desire to escape, if only to burglarize some well-conducted kitchen or commit a heinous assault upon some ineffensive delicatessen shop. On the contrary, a crab-meat cocktail, green-turtle soup, canape of anchovy, a kingfish saute, kernel of veal, broiled squab-turkey, a portion of plover, Vir- ginia ham pie, boned capon, with the right vegetables, cocoanut pie, charlotte glace, fancy ice cream, bits of the better cheeses, assorted fruits, etc., with demi- tasse and a neat liqueur, ought to make the most hardened criminal feel and act like a really good fellow. But there are limits to such a treat- ment. It involves the same principle, inversed, that makes your gouty gor- mandizer feel like murdering his careful, though to him apparently clumsy, valet. There is a lot of morality in good victual- ing, and plenty of criminal impulse in habitual overeating. ~ Aes If the township which is bewailing the theft of the Big Stick which Mr. Roose- velt presented will make inquiry in Wash- ington, it may learn something to its ad- vantage. comicbooks.com