Judge — July 10, 1915 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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

From the Front HE EDITOR of JupGs received the other day a very interesting letter, which was delayed in transmission. It was in the square, green envelope of the British Service, postmarked ‘‘Field Post-office,"* and on the addressed side had this: ‘*Note—Correspondence in this en- velope need not be censored regimentally. The contents are liable to examination at the Base. The certificate on the flap must be signed by the writer.’’ And the flap bore this: **I certify on my honour that the contents of this envelope refer to nothing but private and fami- ly matters."’ All this suggests the precautions that hedge the correspondence of soldiers at the front. This was the letter: France, June 5th, 1913, Dear Editor: 1 found an old copy of Jupar here, and got a good few laughs from it. Would like to correspond with a few Americans, Could you please insert in your joar- nal? My address is: S Geo. Bell, 10th France. Wishing you the best of . and thanking you in an- Here is an opportunity for somebody—or for va- rious bodies—to cheer the lot of this soldier in France. He is indefinite in his request as to correspondents. It isn’t likely, how- ever, that he cares to enter into controversies asto the war, political economy—which seems to be a dead study in Europe—theol- ogy, science or any of the isms that contro- versialists affect. What this soldier appa- rently desires is something cheering from the fair sex, and to the fair sex JupGE com- mends him. S SOON as he is able to talk, the child wants to know ‘‘why?’’ When he does talk, he says ‘‘why?’’ oftener than anything else, and he never leaves off ask- ing why. In later years very few things are thoroughly understood, and all that seems necessary is to have them explained. When they are explained, little more is really known than before. STYMMIED The physician, for example, is continu- ally surprised, on being questioned, to find that before his opinion is half given, his eager patient is appeased, though nothing may have been elucidated for any rational mind. Which suggests that questions do not positively guarantee understanding on the part of the asker, any more than must answers to them invariably indicate wisdom. But why should we feel that we are bound to understand everything? With mysteries © Otnyanm eaernag L S innumerable surrounding our lives, why do we fancy that none exists or should exist? As a matter of fact, we comprehend so few phenomena, it would be sensible to dis- regard our voracious appetite and relish for reasons that are no reasons at all. Most in- terpretation fails to elucidate. No amount of explanation serves to explain why we are empowered to excite any muscle of our wonderful body. Citation of the factors of human will, the motor tract, afferent and efferent nerves, blood distribution and other agents by the score does not pro- vide the least definition of why or even how the thing happens, We have merely a description of the happening. There are no adequate explanations of war, pov- erty, billionaires, organ- ized charity, tact, poli- tics. Since all such things exist, however, explanations are freely forthcoming. And we are never weary of asking “‘why?’’ about all these things on any and every possible occasion. Brief Decisions UCK is all right, but the man who gets there has his periscope trained to discover opportunity. (a) Man’s envy of the kisses between women is wasted. ia) There may be sermons in stones, but few study to find them. o If bright babies developed logically, there would be few fools in the world.