Judge — October 24, 1914 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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

Wake Up! MAGINATION and the ability to smile are gifts which are bestowed upon mankind only. Imagina- tion is the result of intel- lectual development, and the smile denotes a men- tal impression. A dog may wrinkle the skin on his nose until his teeth are visible and his face assumes a comical expression. Some people call that a smile, but a dog can’t think, and where there is no thought there can be no laughter—except the imbecilic chuckle of the idiot. Imagination is a force that may be wielded for good or for evil. Every step of progress that the world has taken in science or literature or art was the result of imagination. It requires a mental effort to bring the imagination into play, to marshal the brain into a process of thought. It takes no effort at all to follow; hence the great army of trailers who are too lazy to think. A morbid imagination is the result of a tired or a diseased intellect, and that kind of a mind lacks the power of selection. It will seize upon sense- less signs that indicate nothing and make them into monstrous Frankensteins. An army of lazy thinkers, whose imag- inations have gone to sleep or whose brain cells have become atrophied by years of inactivity, see in the European cataclysm along season of calamity for American progress and development. But the man with a healthy mind, with the power of analysis and foresight, knows that it is Offers protection in front. always possible to turn every disadvan- tage into a favorable and fortuitous event if he only finds the way. Finding the way is not always an easy matter, but neither is it an occult achieve- ment. Europe is at war. Half of the commerce of the world is closed to us, but half of it is open tousalone. If we cannot ship our products out, by the same token, other countries which have hitherto competed with us cannot ship their products in; so it does not take a mathematician to figure out that with competition eliminated there are going to be some pretty big orders to fill at home. Are we going to fill those orders, or are we going to sit down and weep over the calamity abroad until that calamity is over—and then get down to swapping merchandise and dollars as before? One hundred millions of people in the United States alone are happy and at peace. They require food and clothes, and many of them want luxuries. True, many are out of employment, because such tasks as they performed were in connection with our foreign trade. But, on the other hand, hundreds of things that were made abroad will soon be manufactured here, so for every idle business house there will be a busy mill to compensate. If enough people tell a perfectly healthy, robust man that he’s sick, he will begin to believe it, until eventually his imagina- tion will get the better of his constitu- tion, and he will be ill indeed. There is nothing the matter with this country. Do you want to make it sick? Wake up! Get your healthy in- tellectual faculties into play and THINK! Think the right kind of thoughts, and pretty soon you will also SMILE! Brief Decisions HE MAN who knows enough to go in when it rains misses a lot of the joy that comes from standing out in a shower and feeling himseif grow green in spirit. Offers protection in the rear. (The ” Hero.) (The “ Coward.") NEWEST SHAPES IN WAR-TIME COLLARS A cynic of our acquaintance, who was probably snubbed at Newport last summer, says that, in spite of all the hot air involved in it, there is pre- cious little heat to be got out of the Social Register. The price of ivory is steadily rising. Good! Some men will find a use for their heads at last. Cheer up! Winter, of course, is com- ing, but so is next summer. comicbooks.com