Judge — September 29, 1917 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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To Soldiers First! i Christmas giving this year let it be to the soldiers first. Until now we have thought of Christmas as principally for the children and only secondly for grown-ups. But this year conditions have changed. Those to whom Yuletide cheer will mean most, the ones to whom it will be almost pathet- ically important, are our big boys at the front. And so, before we buy any presents for those at home, let each contribute a gift to JupGe’s Trench Christmas. The little box will bridge the big gulf. Send in your contribution to this fund! Going Ahead and Doing Things T= WORLD always admires the man who goes ahead and does thin, There is a good deal of tragedy linked up with this little platitude. The tragedy comes in the fact that the world is so und: inative in this matter. That is to say, the world cares too little about what a man goes ahead and does, so long as he goes ahead and does something. The world’s attitude is based on the fact that the world, as such, is in- dolent and unimaginative, and so, when it sees some energetic person pushing and performing, it feels the very least it can do is to sit back and applaud and, in this vicarious way, extract a modicum of credit for itself Thus there has grown up the ‘ notion perhaps rather more subcon- sciously than consciously, that even a | pernicious activity is better than a Hn, sagacious acquiescence. And thus no doubt it will continue until the dawn of the Golden Age. One well placed bomb would get at the heart of Russi the whole situs You, and the War HOSE men who have been the most successful along special lines tell us that their work along those lines rarely bothers them. The thing which they do best they do casiest. It is only when they get outside of their native clement that they become self conscious and awkward and anxious. So at the present time, those who are doing their best work for their country are those who are making the least fuss about it; who are accommodating themselves easily to its necessities. To dothis is not to think about the war toomuch. Dwelling on the war will not get you anywhere. Think about it as you would some favorite occupation. It is your attitude toward the war and not the war's attitude toward you, that really counts. Sixes and Sevens TER cornering the crumbs from the rich man’s table, Lazarus got assigned to a lower on Abraham's bosom, instead of being sent to jail for hoarding. 2 Mayor Mitchel of New York expects to get the vote of every Democrat who knows there isn’t any politics in a city election and every Republican who knows there is. 2 Girls regard lots of young fellows about as Uncle Sam regards his b hardly worth the bother to prohibit. especially when there may be a bumper crop of “hops.” Soi Z N NONMMAAAWV’E, ¢ Beetless? Yes, Mr. Hoover. Beer- less? Certainly, Mr. Hoover. Beanless? Not in Boston, Mr. Hoover. 2 Congress perpetrates things done till we beg for it to adjourn and leaves things undone till we pray for it to reassemble. 2 has to learn that we can’t all be Kerensky at once. | comicbooks.com