Judge — January 29, 1916 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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The Ford Joy Ride RY FORD is sorry he undertook his peace mission. The party which was to settle the dif- ferences of warring nations—apparently without their consent or co-operation—has turned to a farce. Between quarrels among the missionaries on their way, games of leapfrog, and such dignified pastimes as initiations into the Order of Vacillating Sons and Sisters of St. Vitus, alternated with sight-seeing trips and petitions from the female contingent for new gowns from the Leader, the general odor of joy-riding that permeated the enterprise from the start has been strengthened. It was all foreign to an idea of great minds unselfishly associ- ated ona mission of world-wide scope for universal human benefit. The Ford party probably had more amuse ment on their trip through Germany—if finally they took that trip—than at any other stage of the pilgrimage. It was an nounced that the German authorities would insist that none of the party should leave the train, which in effect was to be sealed as tightly as a sardine box; that no papers of any kind, no cameras, no opera glasses were to be carried, and that gold coin was aboo. There are others than Mr. Ford that regret the expedition. A large percentage of the population of the United States is sorry it was entered upon. To be in a po- ion which makes an appeal only to the risibilities of other nations is not pleasing. Elastic as the American Sense of Humor is, it has been seriously strained by the venture. Henry Ford was not the victim of mis- taken idealism. He had a commendable abstract thought, but his proceeding was Quixotic: Apparently ignorant of the cir- o1VORey yeatousy cumstances under which the war is prose- cuted and of the temper of those engaged in it, he has added to the unflattering con- ception abroad of America and Americans, without doing anything that will assist suffering humanity or eventually aid the cause of peace A FEW MICROBES TO BE FOUND ON CUPID'S DART Half-Baked Ideas ANY OF the thoughts expressed in this outrageously - free-speech nation of ours ought to be sent by freight. It is eminently fitting that the founders of Amer- ican liberty remembered to enumerate in their catalogue of uncerta inalienable rights that glorious privilege of giving in- stantancous and vociferous publicity to half-baked ideas and untenable opinions. very time anybody of importance makes a move in the United States, everybody who can push a pen gives birth to a premature opinion about the advisability and conse- quences of such a move. No sooner are the headlines of a diplomatic note glanced than there comes forth a hideous horde of malformed reflections from the brain of every editor, preacher, college professor, ial worker, ex-candidate, lame duck, altruist and misanthrope in the land. And the long-suffering public has to read and assimilate. Why wouldn’t it be a good idea to estab- lish a compulsory moratorium of twenty- four hours on the payment of respects to governmental politics and the proposals of men who know what they are talking about? Brief Decisions HE MAN who is in love with himself never has enough love to go roun * Sudden wealth never yet made a man any less a fool than he was before he got it. \ man will never find his right place in life if he thinks somebody else is in it. ¢ The man who is always so sure that he knows a good thing when he sees it is often taken for one himself. comicbooks.com