Judge — July 18, 1914 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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D iI Too Much Doctoring 'T SOMETIMES happens that when doc- tors disagree, the patient dies. The doctors of business in Congress have been loudly and =e persistently disagreeing, Gr “% while their patient ap- “Ff. pears to have been steadi- Ais St x A ly ailing. A Robert R. Reed, whose eR anti-trust ideas are well 27) - known, has been oe i) SS ridiculing the proposal at Wash- ington fora trade commission by offering what he calls a “‘logical’’ substitute. His substitute would establish a ‘Commission on the General Welfare and Social Justice of the United States,’’ to be composed of the President, to serve during his term of office; L. D. Bran- deis and Samuel Untermyg, to serve as long as the other mem- bers of the commission shall be convinced that they act fairly; and George W. Perkins and Thomas Lawson, to serve for life. The measure, thus peopled, forthwith prohibits every act or thing that is unjust or inequita- ble. A member of the commis- sion may prohibit such act or thing, but the commission itself at its convenience may appeal to itself against the single member's edict, though that edict in the meantime shall stand. Mr. Reed’s measure has other provi- sions quite as funny as those here set forth, and it affords the best argument yet formulated against certain amuse- ments indulged in by Congress, As for the personnel of the commission SAVING A LIFE O R I proposed by Mr. Reed, it fits the measure itself ideally; but the country will prob- ably be denied the entertainment that would result from putting these gentle- men on such a job. Backward, Turn Backward A WESTERN contemporary declares we should return to the simplicity which marked the earlier days of the republic. Perhaps he's right. There is much to be T FACING THE ABSOLUTE Mistress (timidly) —Mary, may we ask for your decision as to where we shall spend the summer? said in favor of turning back the wheels of progress. If, after looking over our problems very carefully, we find that, as a race, we are constitutionally unable to do things in the complicated, highly evolved way that mod- ern civilization demands, then the mani- fest thing to do is to have Congress pass a law prohibiting all combinations in re- straint of simplicity. By overtaxing our powers we merely succeed in wearing our- A L_S§& selves out prematurely. It would be silly for us to go so fast that we couldn't keep up with ourselves, |, turn backward. O Time, in thy flight more wild again, just for to-night, A Soldier's Luxury AN ESTHETIC taste and fastidious | cleanliness go hand in hand, as it were. Just these things have been shown of that lively Mexican, Villa, whereas his photographs—and they have been many - have given no assurance of the fact. A news dispatch recently said that, not waiting until his inva- sion of Mexico City, this pictur. esque soldier of fortune has had delivered to him at Juarez from Chicago a porcelain bathtub of the value of $1,000. Captious analysis of the fact as it is presented might, perhaps, lead to doubt of the exact impulse brought to bear on this token of luxury. ‘‘It is believed,’’ said the news dispatch, ‘‘that Villa plans to carry his new tub to Mexi- co City and substitute it for the tub now used by Huerta."’ So, after all, it may be but a bound- ing ambition to outdo Huerta in luxury, after Villa conquers. “There is said to be no bathtub like Villa’s, either in the White House or in the home of any Cabinet officer in Washington,’’ concluded the news dis- patch, showing the greater simplicity of a republic of long standing. There would seem to be one element of danger in having such a bathtubas Villa's | around on the march. That aggressive soldier may be tempted to indulge his fed for bathing at the expense of his progress toward the Mexican capital. comicbooks.com TOSESEY ;