Judge — July 8, 1916 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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Remembering VERY NOW and then some victim of systematic association flashes be- fore us a glaring preachment on the neglected art of remembering. Most ur- gently docs he press upon us the dire need of recalling this or that insignificant thing. Fora puny consideration he prom- ises to. overhaul our thinking machinery, straighten out the tangled wires that keep us so mt idled, and make our life one long nicely articulated dream in which each and every act will be automatically re- enforced by the wisdom gleaned from all previous experience. When we have done with his training we shall be no more and no less than self-adjusting encyclopedias, automati- cally reorganized, rewritten, and repaged every time we bat an eye. ry little percept and concept will fly readily and rapidly into its own small corner, and will remain there fully equipped and ex- ccedingly eager to come forth and func- tion upon the slightest provocation. All of this may be in line with the high- est ideals of cerebral efficiency. — But what is the use? What are the diction- aries, reference books, encyclopedias, al- manacs, and reviews for? They can take care of the past admirably. And any metropolitan daily worthy of the name will answer your question, whether it concern the population of Madagascar, the propriety of ing your sixteen- year-old sweetheart good-night, or the social standing of the nullo bid in auc- tion, Then besides, if we learn to re- member too well, we are sure to slight the much finer art of forgetting. Kept in the Tool Box EFINING an accessory, in a murder trial, a former mayor of Waukegan, Ill, said: “I carry them in my automo- bile.” A Daniel come to judgment! The inner tube is accessory—far more than accessible!—and the inner tube is alw guilty, both before and after the fact. L Sixes and Sevens BEFORE you knock the weather, stop and think how many office boys’ grandmothers’ lives it has saved by not being salubrious on the day of the game. & “Senatorial courtesy”—as the boy said about the lie—is ‘tan abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in time of trouble.” e p-year girl who is matri- matrimonially declined. And many a | monially inclined —Chicago News Take a chance, man—take a chance! Maybe she'd waive the alimony. 2 If I cannot retain my moral influence over a man except by occasionally knocking him down, then for the sake of his soul I have got to knock him down occasionally.— President Wilson to the National Press Club. David Harum would have added: “And do it fust.” 2 Heaven is all the time near us, while we're flying from star to star to find it.—AlUanta Constitution. Flitting from star to star, one may glimpse an angelic chors—but heaven is not so near as before they abolished the gallery gods. 2 A White Plains jury has awarded dam- ages of $12,000 to a plaintiff who was in- jured by an autemobile. Damages that more than represent the cost of a new high- power car are obviously calculated to have a restraining effect on reckless driving —New York World. Something’s got to be done—or else soak the pedestrian the price of the gasoline.