Judge — August 15, 1914 — page 12: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This is a fable-style moral tale about complaint and perspective. A farmer's wagon wheel squeaks while climbing a hill, prompting the wheel to blame other wheels for not helping. Other wheels respond with their own grievances—each claiming they're doing their share of the work. When the farmer reaches a wheelwright, he removes the "complaining wheel" entirely, replacing it with a new one. The moral: constant complaining only gets you discarded. The secondary dialog "Giving It Time" appears to show characters named Skids and Skittles debating work ethic during hot weather—Skids urging hustle, Skittles resisting hard labor in summer heat. The satire targets workplace complainers and those seeking easy conditions, suggesting that voicing grievances leads to replacement rather than improvement.