Judge — November 3, 1917 — page 4: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

Do Your Bit! UBSCRIPTIONS to Juvce’s Trench Christmas fund are coming in generously from all parts of the country Have you decided to buy a “kit” or two? Remember the scores of thousands—possibly the hundreds of thousands—of young Americans who will be in the trenches at Christmas time! There cannot be too many responses to this opportunity to make the boys in France happy! The “kit” which has been assembled to embody a token of cheer to the boys at the front contains a dozen articles in which they will delight at a time when the rest of the world will be trying to observe the traditional holiday in happiness The American Defense Society, whose work in’ various directions related to the great war is admirable, is co-operating with JupGe in this seasonable courtesy to the soldiers. The responses to this fund have already come from per- sons in nearly every state who recognize its unique value. Some donors have subscribed for dozens of these “kits,” practical symbols of the Christmas spirit, and every one should at least give fifty cents for one of them, Remember that one dollar sends two “kits” to two soldiers. Send in your contribution! What Act Is It? HREE years ago the curtain was still down on the stage, not a handbill, not an “ad,” not a poster anywhere that announced the coming of the G igedy. There was not a soul in the auditorium. ‘The boxes were empty and the great orchestra of siege guns were unassembled. But had you ventured around to the stage door of the Cen- tral Empires of Europe you would have observed, maybe, in the night—in the dead of the night—figures skulking in and out They were, and had been for years, staging the spectacle and stocking the wardrobe closets and drilling the leaders in the Ba ay se i> ) great mob scenes. And in that darkened auditorium there sat one silent spectator-director, the impresario of the marvelous Murder Ballet—the Kaiser. On the 25th of July, tory, Austria distributed posters all over the world; three days afterward the curtain went up, and, today, after three years and more of the greatest of unimagin- able tragedies on a little star lost in space, we, the actors and spectators, do not know whether it is the first act or the last act we are viewing. Sixes and Sevens RANK AL VANDERLIP, head of the greatest: bank in the United States, is working for the government at a salary of Sia year. The dollar that buys food sings mighty small alongside the dollar that buys Mr. Vanderlip’s services. 2 Hails of legislation are so called because if a fisherman made a haul like that he would keep some of the bigger specimens for bait. * One comfort the editor gets out of the war is using such French words as “ camoutla and acting as if he knew what they meant. * Supreme Court Justice Goff, of New York, says that it is discreditable for a long resident alien not to be naturalized. Better take a chance and do it even if you are only medium height 2 Chancellor Day, of Syracuse University, has abolished hazing again. Freshmen are getting so that they resent being hazed unless they are reminded from time to time of its abolition ¢ Folke Cronholme, Swedish chargé at Mexico City, had a narrow escape. ‘The Kaiser came near decorating him with the order of the crown of the second class—and then they would ha : zoned him for his second-class male matter tay. ¢ We'd be handier at stabilizing prices if we hadn't got so used to garaging them. e Where Major André lost out was that Benediet Arnold had no United States senatorship, and mighty few s comicbooks.com