Judge — August 15, 1914 — page 4: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

E “Take It Back” THAT. was a novel idea of the young city of Carmen, Okla., to begin recently for annual observance a ‘‘Take-It-Back Day.”” Everybody in Carmen who has borrowed money or property during the be fewer quarrels and a greater number of friendships, and the average person will develop a self-reliance and pride that the shiftless where borrowing is one of the time-honored habits can never show. “Take-It-Back Day"’ be might well Naval Courtesy T IS INTERESTING to know that the United States has extended an invita- tion to Switzerland to send a battleship to participate in the opening festivities of the Panama Exposition. It is said, as a delicate com- year and failed to pay it back ;— or give its equivalent will be reminded on the recurrence of this day of the remissness and expected to pay the debt or re- turn the goods. According to reports, the first ‘Take-It-Back Day” was a success. Even the parcel post was invoked by persons out of town to return things borrowed and carried away. And there was such good feel- ing all around that even grudges were revoked, forgiven, and promise to be forgotten. More- over, the residents of Carmen started a campaign against borrowing except in cases of necessity. One has to go to compara- tively new towns in a freshly settled region to find such a pliment to his country, that the flagship ‘‘Wabble,’’ which be- came so famous in rescue work in the south Atlantic a few years ago, will be dispatched in charge of Admiral Cammem- bert-Gruyere, the Minister of Marine, himself. It would add something to the unique character of the vent if the United States could induce the Italian Government to send over a battalion of the famous Venetian Mounted Po- lice to act as a special guard of honor to the Admiral. Optimism a la Boston T IS a Boston financial writer who tells us that ‘‘the po- tential initiative which the mar- ket has missed so long will shortly be reasserted on its con- parture as this from the habits of humanity in older communi- ties. Debt is a part of the method of business in most so- phisticated places, while borrowing goes to a thousand things used in every-day life that sometimes leave the possession of original owners for good. With less borrowing in Carmen—and in like circumstances the same result would obtain everywhere else—there will Mrs Mrs ressed, Lar Why don’t you lock it up? Fathus—\ am so Shimmers--Ob! established everywhere, for the good of those who should be improved by its observance. However much the bustle may recover its former popularity, it can never hope to come to the front. lak sing all my hair structive side."’ Making all due allowance for the Bostonious exigen- cies of this statement, it sounds greatly like hope. While it will not be an easy matter to absolve the mar- ket for mislaying its potential init so carelessly, still if, in reasserting it, Wall Street discovers that it has a con- structive side, many persons will feel more than relieved. comicbooks.com