Judge — June 24, 1916 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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E Facts HERE ARE no facts nowadays worth preserving. Most of them originate in factories, and the old reliable home-made kind is practi- cally extinct. This is a pity, for the highly polished and machine -fin- ished variety leaves still something to be desired as to the intrinsic quality. Facts @ la mode are agile and not permanent. They meet the human taste, which seems to de- mand that a fact of to-day shall be proved a fallacy to-morrow. In other words, this is the age of progress, and facts like every- thing else must share in the support of the ts are in particular disrepute. Nobody likes them, and the experts have no use for them. No fact will be recognized unless it be handsomely clothed so that it becomes distinctly ornamental for the time being. Of course when the mannequin has outlived its usefulness the clothes can be quite well used for another model, for all accepted facts have interchangeable characteristics. The only thing positive is that every fact shall be presentable. It remains to be seen whether the trend of mental and moral cultivation is going to insist on the present mutability of so- called facts. If it is to do so, we shall all have to step lively in order to enjoy safety first. Spanking CCORDING to the most popular writers on child welfare and unrelated subjects children should be taught to look upon a spanking as a soundly, deserved, salutary catastrophe. _ They should be trained to appreciate its eternal fitness and instructed in the wholesome reaction that is to follow it. A spanking should be a real and carefully motived climax. Never should parents allow it to degenerate into a mere part of the daily routine. One noted authority asserts that it is better to spank children with caution, and then only upon occasions. She explains that the child should understand both the immediate and the ulterior motives of the spanker. The curative processes of pain should be carefully unfolded and everything should be done to sensitize the miscreant to the finer influences of what is coming to him. It is indeed a pleasure to see the crude old spanking assuming so much respectability. It almost makes one want to run off again and go fishing on Sunday while father and mother attend services. PREPAREDNESS IN BUGLAND The mosquito—Hi, fellers, here's a peach of a drilling ground! Fy Ee, Sixes and Sevens SoME of our sky-rockets in public life are the mailed fist, and some the f cifist—but a lot of them are the also fizzed. 2 The Socialist Labor Party has nominated for President a man named Reimer. A barefaced attempt to corral the vote of the Indiana poct belt. the talking!— Oyster Bay, » on the wire. ¢ Too many persons work their brains as they do their gardens—just scratch the surface Atchison Globe. Still, if they are your brains you won't hear your neighbor's rooster crowing over them. Lincoln, Neb., * Sitting in Congress is the prerogative of the few—sitting on it is the glorious privilege of the many. 2 Bryan says he was defeated in Nebraska by the saloons. and yet some people claim that the saloons serve no useful purpose in society Boston Transcript. That's the strong drink—not the grape juice chooser. 2 The American dollar at present is the best money in the world —Exening Wisconsin. What’s the matter with the dollar if the best is the cheapest? 2 A soft answer tumeth harsh words stir up headlines. Democrat Kind words can never die—certainly not from international overwork. 2 If Carranza were more initiative and less referendum our little punitive expedition would be a whole lot more recall. a BBISEY Mexican away wrath, while St. Louis Globe- fet