Judge — May 5, 1917 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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I The Discovery of Evils HE discovery of evils is one of the most exciting cerebral sports on earth. For the person who has no business of his own and wouldn’t have time to attend to it anyhow, it is most attractive. Besides being inter- esting, the discovery of evils is profitable, for the life of an ordinary evil is short and the demand always exceeds the supply. As long as we have to put up with young people in the world we shall need a goodly number of formidable impro- prieties to caution them against. If evils are to accomplish their purpose, they must be kept up- to-the-minute and the supply must be fresh and varied. The young of our land consume abominations apace. Besides, abominations are perishable. And they are stubborn about staying alive. Often the combined efforts of purity leaguers, uplifters, and other individuals and organizations existing primarily for the dissemination of advice and caution fail to keep them alive over a fortnight. Publications that exploit the evergreen fear t the coming generation is headed directly for the blazing bow-wows pay well for attractively written flapdoodle about new evil: Pre erence is given to articles about evils that corrupt the morals and damn the soul by a long, insiduous process that nobody can understand. These, of course, furnish a better excuse for extended exposition than the ordinary, open-face variety does, and are consequently high in the favor of highbrow uplifters. Even if you can’t go in for the discovery and exploitation of evils on a large scale, you can do a lot of pious harm in your own home town. You can keep agitating. See that there is a new evil for your young folks to consider at least once a month. If you don’t, they may forget all about the pernicious things of life and grow up into sane, wholesome men and women. Sixes and Sevens DAM and Eve, according to State Senator Brown of New York, couldn't have got into Eden if there had been a literacy test. A couple who could afford to cat apples wouldn't have to break in. * An especially trying “little wilful. men” is the’ one that the home team for the | * Leaving to the New York Tribune the problem “4 naming the ex-Danish West Indies, we suggest that the flavor ormer ownership be retained by calling all the towns hamlets.—Boston Transcript. group of noses out ball pennant. of With $25,000,000 cash paid for the islands, what is there in that transaction to suggest the melancholy Dane? 2 “Forward looking” legislation helps the country in two ‘by being all millennium and nearly all unconstitutional. 2 A New York woman advises all women to pray for their nds. It is generally understood that husbands are prayed for by unmarried women.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. ways Might better pray for their own husbands than prey for the other woman’s s The meek shall inherit the earth quarters water still subject to the fre apparently. but with the three lom of the seize, * You can't blame a man for swelling up and feeling chesty when his wife calls him “small potatoes.” ¢ Many persons have admired the intricate carvings on the marble pillars in the capitol at Harrisburg.—Utica Press. Most capitols specialize more on treasury surplus carvings. ~ pS 7 “Te Bary comicbooks.com