Judge, 1917-07-28 · page 4 of 28
Judge — July 28, 1917 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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The top illustration depicts a figure being pulled apart by three octopus-like tentacles, likely representing competing political or social forces. The "Editorials" header indicates this is opinion content. The text discusses the American Press Humorists' convention in New York and references Marc Antony's famous funeral oration from Shakespeare's *Julius Caesar*—a classical allusion to political manipulation and rhetoric. There are scattered brief editorial items: one mocking the planting of chestnut trees as symbolic but ineffective, another about coin denominations and a "Crown Prince," and a third about California strategists and the "Colonel House" (likely referring to Woodrow Wilson's advisor Edward House). The page appears to offer political and social commentary typical of early 20th-century satirical magazines, though specific contemporary references remain unclear without additional historical context.
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E D I T O Chestnuts HE American Press Humorists, at their recent very suc- cessful and enjoyable annual convention in New York, with the connivance and assistance of the Mayor and the Park Department planted a chestnut-tree in City Hall Park. ‘The editor of a humorous magazine, per- haps, deferring to hypercritical read- ers who never originate anything oe 2 themselves, and who thus have time to discover the lapses of others, might object to the planting of a chestnut-tree and be impulsed to paraphrase Marc Antony’s cry over the body of Caesar: ‘We come here not to raise the chestnut, but to bury it.” Yet in spite of the Smart Alecks who identify old jests published as new wheezes, the old jest has its uses and always will have them. In the days of negro minstrels the oldest joke cracked by Bones or Sambo inspired the loudest ap- plause because everybody recognized it as an old friend. And this is so generally because the multitude are slow of comprehension and pass up good wheezes that have no age to recommend them because they don't quite see the points. Some philosopher— Bacon, was it not?—remarked that the age of a jest is the badge and order of its merit. And Nature's law The crude germs of many pleasantries dressed up in modern guise no doubt were familiar to the Cave speare called “the circumambient air” with his mirth, when hey were related in uncouth v ealists, surgeons and physicians have for ages NVI APH, em yh “O The migrators — Human beings seem Man, who rocked over them and split what Shake- tobe fairlyintelligent strategists who can’t quite carry California. in some things but s they know nothi about the points of the compass. prevails in jokes as in all else. The fittest survive. — R I A L §S been experimenting to prolong human life. The scientist by regulating food and habits, the physician by alleged medica- tion, and the surgeon by removing from us with more or less force little things that Nature mistakenly supposed we needed besides the fruits of our industry or ingenuity. It may be that man today averages a longer life than the man of fifty years ago; but finally and by degrees man gradually dries up, wrinkles, loses one zest after another, last falls to the Grim Reaper. Yet the a worthy of life needs no preservative. It lives foreve And with knowledge of this fact, and in this spirit, it is good that chestnut-trees be planted as symbols. of the imperishable. Sixes and Sevens VER in France, Dr. John H. Finley heard the children sing the $ Spangled Banner in French and in English. Hearing it sung in English was a novelty worth traveling to France for. There are fewer denominations of coins now in cir- culation in this country than formerly.—Utica Press. you ve plenty of the real thing the denomination doesn’t matter. ¢ The Crown Prince who takes over the job after the old gent has abdicated, and hears us call what he does“ succeeding,” must think we are kidding him. 2 This war seems to be producing the usual crop of Being the Colonel House to European royalty isn’t the job it used to be. Money resembles religion in this respect, that if, Se — comichooks.com