Judge — August 17, 1918 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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oro wee — die? ceria oat Bini wre gy HDITODIAL Comment Grave and Gay on THUGS as They Pass ee AMERICANS OF THE FUTURE tout of your head that what happens to Russia doesn’t matter much to us. Don't flatter yourself that it may mean a little more war, a little more cost, a little heavier share of the burden for us to carry, but that’s all. hat isn’t all, What happens to Russia matters more to us than to any nation on earth except the Russians themselves. Americans of the future are being born and reared in hapless Russia today. These men or their will largely govern our great cities tomorrow and by and by they may govern the country as a whole. When they come to America they will bring with them their inherited prejudices and environment, just as our fathers brought theirs. But our fathers brought an inherited prejudice for self-government and an environment of law and order. These men will bring an inherited: prejudice against government and an environment of anarchy. Our fathers hated the abuses of government, but their remedy was to reform it. These men hate the government and their gospel is to destroy it. Be it President or Congress, Czar or Soviets, these future Americans have been taught to believe that govern- ment is graft, corruption and oppression—a convenient instrument to enrich the privileged and despoil the weak and wretched These men will not be Demo- crats because their fathers ad- mired Jefferson, or Republicans because their fathers preferred Hamilton. They never heard of either of them. They never heard of Missouri, cither, but that is where they hail from in there attitude toward our polit- ical institutions. They can learn. bright of the into our city high schools and ask who gets the prizes for exceptional scholarship. Ten to one, you'll find plenty of Russian names in the lists. Oh, yes, they sons That is the picture. Go j side canlearn, these Russian-American boys and girls. Can we teach them? Will we teach them? On our heads be it if we do not! We are thinking more earn- estly today of civic duty than in many aday before. On our heads be it if we so conduct our political affairs as to con- firm or even extenuate inherited beliefs that govern- ment is graft and tyranny. Tue Lieut.-Governor AND THE GuARD W THEN America declared War on Germany, armed guards were stationed about the Capitol at Albany, New York, and nobody was admitted thereto after hours without One night, Lieutenant-Governor way to preside at a session of the State Senate, was halted by the guard. “But I am the Lieutenant- Governor!” he protested. ‘Can't help it,” was the reply. “You are the third Lieutenant-Governor to- night—and you don’t get by without your pass!” Lieutenant-Covernor Schoeneck might have done several things. He might have threatened that young- ster with reprisal and reprimand for the indignity suf- fered by the second officer of the commonwealth. Much lesser men have been known to make ructions because a street car conductor enforces what to them is a senseless rule. What Mr. Schoeneck did was this: He went back to his hotel and got his pass, and next day he wrote and congratulated that soldier boy for doing his duty. As the war goes on, military authority is bound to many orders which may be a great deal more trying to us civilians than having our food and fuel doled out. It isn’t going to matter whether we are Lieutenant-Governors or Captains of Industry or members of the Cincinnati, save that the more of a somebody we happen to be the better example we may set. Many of these orders may seem senseless until by and by we understand them—and may- be they will always seem so, for Government is merely fallible humans. But let us remember that it is our Government, act- ing for our good, and err though it may, its acts, judgment and orders rest on far wider informa- tion than we can possibly possess. There is one thing that counts—to win the war, and win it quickly. Compared to that, our comfort, our convenience— nay, even our normal rights— are nothing. a card of identification, Schoeneck, on his issue comicbooks.com