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

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JUDGE'S TRENCH FUND UDGE'S Trench Christmas Fund has been contributed to by thousands of well-wishers throughout the country, as the acknowledgments published in these columns have shown, It has resulted in assembling some 15,000 kits of desir- able articles for the soldier boys, and these kits have been forwarded to France through the co-operation of the American Defense Society. The work, aside from that co-operation, has involved much attention and labor on the part of the Lesuir-Jupcr staff, and has been done gratuitously, the full mount received by subscription being devoted to the cost of the articles that make up the kits. Jeper wishes at this time to thank every person who has contributed in any way to this Fund, as well as to acknowledge the hearty assistance rendered by the American Defense Society Several of the college publications, especially the Stanford Chaparral, the Nebraska .lwgwun, and the Williams Purple Cow, have aided the Fund by publicity and otherwise No doubt many contributors will hear from individual soldiers who receive these welcome holiday tokens, as return postal cards have been included in the kits with the names and addresses of donors, many of whom sent theit personal cards with contributions, The New Year HE conventional phrases that pass in normal times to usher a New Year cannot be glibly spoken on th threshold of ro1S. The world is still aflame, and portents do not promise happi- ness in any land involved in civilization’s war. But hope may take its place. and effort should fortify hope that happiness may come again. There will be an end to war, and there will be new generations to build prosperity and felicity upon ruins that now appal and lessons that disaster must enforce. The New Year is to be a year of greater sobering and trial of peoples; a year in which selfishness must give way to universal devotion to humanity; a year of greater endeavor for the deliv erance of the world from its nightmare; a year of cares, of suf- fering in a common cause, of enforced service in strange fields, of rigid economies, of dread personal shocks, of spiritual puri cation. Hope, then, that before 1o18 passes, the world, knit together on a more human plan and with a more human impulse. shall see a peace which no sinister ambition can ever violat Too Thin HE thinness of the Americanism of certain of our forcign- born citizens seems to indicate that this country is a plat- ing-bath rather than a melting-pot. Six OMEN. they say. are bound to face the rear ene] and get off the street cars the wrong way. Since the women broke into politics they have got all the men facing both ways and wondering where they get off. * President Wilson has put a new watch on the pro-Germans, but even before the alarm went off they must have known that their hour has come. a third George Washington had sense enough not to want term without a Tumulty. « Noah was no great shakes of a Hooverizer, or he uld have got all the neighbors to sign pledge cards at the time of the flood. Such a waste of water! Saw in the papers the other day where a wife did not inter- fere until her husband had actually started the ceremony to: marry the other woman. Just like wifely devotion — couldn't bear to see him sutier! Ps ‘The first woman acquitted by a woman jury will appeal at once on the ground that she isn’t so all-fired homely as that. 2 The Turks have bombarded the tomb of the Prophet Samuel Every boy in our Sunday school class foresaw «das that child Samuel would get his near Jerusalem that a kid so infernally comeuppings. comicbooks.com