Judge, 1916-10-28 · page 9 of 28
Judge — October 28, 1916 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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The top cartoon depicts a WWI-era charity scene: a maid solicits a wealthy matron to buy a raffle ticket benefiting "a poor wounded soldier." The matron's reply—that she wouldn't know what to do with a wounded soldier if she won—is absurdist humor highlighting the disconnect between charitable gestures and actual concern for soldiers' welfare. She views the "prize" as an awkward burden rather than a worthy cause, satirizing superficial wartime charity among the upper classes. The main article, "Talk Is Not Cheap," is an essay praising conversation's power and value. It argues that talk—particularly professional advice from doctors and lawyers—commands high prices because it effects real change in the world. The piece contrasts talk's practical utility with mere "New Thought" (likely a contemporary self-help movement), asserting that meaningful communication requires both a competent speaker and receptive listener.
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ApH en —— Maid—Won't you buy a raffle ticket for a poor wounded soldier? Matron—Yes, but gracious, I wouldn’t know what to do with a wounded soldier if I won one. UITE the contrary. Of all com- mon things, Talk is the costliest. In the end it ranks with the expensive luxuries. It displaces larger sums of money than anything else, excepting “ Nine-rooms-and. baths,” an indulgence that for the present may seem to be equally seductive. The guiding ambition of every new-fledged American is to become a good talker, which, surmounted, is speedily followed by success. Talk comes in all styles and sizes. Nobody can complain that the market is ever cornered, or that Talk of any grade is scarce. The maximum price maintained ever unabated is, therefore, the more remarkable. Professional Talk is rated at the head. Here, either the doc- tor-man or the lawyer-man controls the stock, for his advice consists of Talk reduced to its highest terms. If it is good Talk, but not heeded, the money is thrown away. If it is bad advice and yet taken, more than money is thrown away. The heavy financial outlay is a fact in whichever light you see it. All negotiable commodities are as so much deadwood with- out Talk. No power on earth can stimulate it but Talk. Any Judgment that insists that matter does not exist, but only mind, wofully underestimates the power of mind, which is quite able By TOD TALK IS NOT CHEAP to move any bulk of matter any day in the week. Ever since that colloquy in the garden anent the enjoyment of fruit in general and the apple in particular, Talk has been competent to handle all questions involving the disposition of things materi For this purpose k defies logic, morals, justice; and it surpasses any mechanical apparatus from the prehistoric down to Edison. The extensive assortment of New Thought is not to be compared with just Talk. One is theory, the other accomplish ment. New Thought without Talk is unthinkable, just as Talk with the inspiration of New Thought is untalkable. Talk persists for all sorts and conditions of men and women. It is distributed more or less usefully, but under the best regu- lations mistakes will sometimes happen. The most disastrous is when the Talker is not suited to the disposition and need of the Talkee. In such a case violence has been known to result. This shows that it takes at least two to ma So there is a movement on foot, when an audience is concerned, to order an examination of cach candidate for admission. If he be a proper subject for the Talker or Talkers to talk to he shall be let to buy a ticket, but if non-absorbent, he shall be turned away. Notwithstanding somebody said—was it Shakespeare “One word is as good as another,” implying that Talk is che: than can at present be admitted, it is a fact that considerable verbal waste is going o2 all the time. CHEVENIX ke Talk successful. er comicbooks.com