Judge — August 8, 1914 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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Violating Tradition [XNOVATION excites persons who are used to time-honored methods. The usages of judges on the bench are hedged \ by traditions which those who frequent courts cannot bear to see changed. Colorado City, Col., where woman has won the suffrage and the privilege of office holding, has a city clerk who is ex-officio a police justice, in the per- son of Mrs. Mary Ammer- man. Various charges have been preferred against this official, it being alleged that she is a clerk for a fraternal order; that she keeps the books of the order and does its correspondence on city time; that she has voted for an expenditure for a city improvement that some citizens do not think proper, as well as for the buying of secondhand automobile for city use. The most serious charge against this woman in office, however, seems to be that she persists in knitting and doing fancy work while sitting as a judge, and “that such conduct is wholly inconsistent with the duties of a police magistrate." According to the tradi- tions of police magistracy, perhaps knitting or any other industrious pursuit is contrary to the duties of such a position, for such offices have from time im- memorial been held by men, who do not knit or do fancy work, although some of them may not give all their time to the people. There have been police magistrates in New York that called attention to themselves by strange do- ings, and some of them while in office here built up reputations for wit at the expense of the derelicts and unfortunates arraigned before them. Recall petitions are out against this woman magistrate in Colorado City, and she may lose her job. But to persons not in politics it may seem that object lessons in industry given by a police magistrate are not the worst things to set before the eyes of misdemeanants and others brought into court for discipline. Brief Decisions HERE is a demand in some quarters for a doctor in the Cabinet. For our own part we think there ought to be two or three of them, to give the country a really conclusive diagnosis of what's the matter with that august body. ie} “I think that Dr. Cook should have his day in court,’’ says Representative Smith, of New York. Sure thing! And whata joy it would be to cross-examine the good doctor on just what point along the Go- wanus Canal he really located the Pole! There is one thing about the tango that cannot be denied, for all its faults. It can be danced properly only by upstand- ing, forward-looking men. “HERE'S YOURS, MY DEAR!” Nothing Personal SPECIAL to the New York Time says that Speaker Clark ‘‘voted ‘no’ in a loud voice’’ on a bill to create an as. sistant to the Secretary of State, at $4,509 a sve per year. Speaker Clark, we venture, did not do this from any personal animosity arising from Mr. Bryan's opposition to him in the last Democratic national con- vention. He voted ‘‘no’’ undoubtedly be- cause he was seized with an economical streak, and he used a loud tone of voice because, not often being thus seized, he wanted to get the greatest possible bene- fit from it. Your Life EVEN if it were possible for any one else to live your life for you, you could never find anybody to take the same interest in it that you would yourself. You must live your own life. Consequently, in order to know what kind of life a man is living, you must get acquainted with him. You can’t find out by looking him up in a mercantile agency. Everybody knows that the most miserable people are those who race around mad- ly from place to place, try- ing to get happiness from external things. External things may possess the po- tentialities of life, but one must have a good mental, moral and physical diges- tion to accomplish the con- version, Preachers talk much about the eternality of life. They would do better to talk about the in- ternality. Life is internal. Some men who never tell the ‘naked truth’’ will not hesitate to tell it a trifle decollete. comicbooks.com