Judge — August 31, 1918 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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4 BRDITORIAL Comment Grave aud Gay ou Things as They Pass Great Heaps Bic Heaps ILLIAM HOWARD TAFT was accosted the other day by a feminine admirer who said: “Mr. Taft, I didn’t like you one bit a President, but [ just love you as an ex-President!”” Whereupon the man who is traveling all over the country to help the man who defeated him win the war, greeted her naive remark with a great big wholesouled laugh. It is a wonderful asset for any man to possess that genial nature, that sense of proportion, t would make his fellows “just love him as an ex-President.”” Not all our Presidents have possessed it, but there is no other country where chief magistrates are less rarely iled by victory or soured by defeat. We Ameri cans in politics are hard fighters, but we are not hard losers. We expect our candidate, be he President or pathmaster, to “take his medicine,” and with few exceptions candidates take it like men. It takes a big man to be elected President and not lose his head and it takes a big man to be beaten and not lose his poise. Mon- archs dethroned spend the rest of their lives plotting to get back again. No man has any business to sit in the polit- ical game if he thinks that just because he is ier than the other fellow he is made of finer We may elect a man because we like him, or because we don’t like his opponent—or just because. We may like him just about as well when we beat him as when we elected him—the con- ditions have changed, that’s all Or maybe we are bored, and want a change. People aren't much different in that respect from what they were when the Athenians got tired of hearing Aristides called the Just. A man may last a long while in politics if we think he has a great head, but he won’t last long if we think he has the big head. Long before there was any American republic Oliver Crom- well was a republican politician, and a mighty clever one. ‘Look what a crowd there is to see you,” said one of Cromwell's friends. “Think what a crowd there'd be to see me hanged!” replied Crom- well. AND Draton by Laxc Camruett Wortp Domination on Downrate Positively the last appearance of this dare-devil act. irons for a chance to try. ere mer ag iS Se eee a ae AND SEVENS HE Council of Defense has decided to limit the men’s clothing. The women as usual beat them to it—their clothes were that already. President Wilson declares ‘politics is adjourned,” then jumps in his Ford for a drive through the Republi- can senatorial preserves of Michigan President Wilson’s undoubted power to commandeer all the available timber must worry Colonel Roosevelt and Senator Borah and Governor Whitman a lot rose at the solicitation of Repub- lican Chairman Hays has agreed to forgive all his enemies. Hereto- fore he had followed the rule recom- mended by the old British King t St. Augustine: “ Kill them all first * . * nator Boise Pe A woman may love you enough to marry you, but will she love you 4X cnough to divorce yo S . ee Some men hold office in con- tempt, but a lot more are satisfied to just hold it. ’ . . The next Congress will have to elect a leader to fill the vacancy caused by the election of Claude Kitchin. * * * It is mighty magnanimous of the Spanish government to make October 12, Discovery Day, a na- tional holiday. Spanish Kingcraft would be a lot less tottery if Colum- bus hadn’t been and gone and done it. . . . Czernin had to resign because of Emperor Charles’s indiscreet mother-in-law, but so far as George Creel knows the President hasn’t any mother-in ‘aw at all. * . * Men hug to their bosoms the delusion that there are just two kinds of women—those who can’t get along with a husband and those who would give their best curling- comicbooks.com