Judge — September 28, 1918 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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| : FS Comment Grave aud Gay on Thuge as They Pane | BDiITORiAL| | = — Tue Moruer Cour TRY CENTURY ago there was a social organization in London known as the Anacrwon Club. Some- body has discovered (or rather rediscovered) that Francis Scott Key borrowed the music of the Anacreon Club song and set to it the words of that national anthem which when played or sung brings every American to his feet This rediscovery has evoked pleasurable comments. So, too, has the fact, lately announced, that a hotel for American officers in London abuts upon the birthplace of King George I1l—and is known as the Washington Inn! uittle things—yes—but they mean a lot. We fought two wars with England for our independence. True ta German King was on her throne; he was as crazy as the kaiser, and his ministers were Prussians in mind if not in blood. We more than suspected that if the Civil War had gone just a little differently England would have recognized the Southern Confederac Maybe she would have—but the English Queen at that time was a German woman with a Ger- man prince consort by her side—and anyhow it never was done, We didn’t like the way England treated the Boers and the Irish. We had treated the Indians and the negroes so much better! In short, “We didn’t like you, Dr. Fell, the reason why we couldn't tell.” When Sackville West wrote his famous letter urging the re- election of President Cleveland, the President demanded his re- call as British Ambassador why? diplomatic faux pas, but because Cleveland knew it would ruin his chances to be the choice of the ‘blasted Britishers.” But we needn't hark back to 1888; much, if not most, of our so-called pro- German sentiment just before we entered the war was anti- British sentiment The war has clarified our national vision. We fancy that there are few districts today where the candidate wouldn't dare admit that he wishes to be fair and friendly to the Mother Country. We are looking for reasons to like our natural allies not for pretexts to distrust them. America must play the lead- ing part in the League of Nations after the war, because her ideal of government will be the world’s ideal of government and_be- cause she is the one nation which is a League of Nations in her- self. Toward that other great ‘ot because it was a Drawn by W. K. Staxnert We Sua’n’t Skip English-speaking nation we must recognize our peculiar lies. Had there been no Magna Charta, there would have been no Declaration of Independence. Had there been no Cromwell's Ironsides, no embattled farmers would have fired the shot heard ‘round the world AND SEVENS SIXEs A MAN feels pretty cheap to tell his wife he can’t hold down his job, when the Crown Prince holds down his. + * . If King George really proposes to make knights of our ad mirals, the least he can do is to invest Josephus with the shank of the evening. When Claude Kitchin finds himself in accord with McAdoo, he acts as if it were a cord to strangle him. . . . German officers in Russia are busy mobilizing the Letts. It is high time for the Allies to get busy with the don’t lets. Kaisers Wilhelm and Karl announce that they agree on every point. Two moles with but a single thought, two hearts that will beat it as one. This unearned income tax is going to hit all the neighbors pretty hard, but we do hope the earned income tax doesn’t mean that they'll tax us on what the boss ought to be paying us. McAdoo warns the railroad employeeggto be polite to. the passengerssind cut out the “pub lic-be-damned” stuff. Does he suppose the tox populi will stand for a denatured war with nothing much for us to. kick about? . * . Senator Jim Ham Lewis says the Democrats can’t nominate an Eastern man for President in 1920. We'll support any good Middle Westerner with pink whisker: provided he was born in Virgini: reared in Georgia, Congressman- large from Washington State, and at present the only Demo- cratic Senator from Illinois. . . * A girl nowadays shouldn't marry a man with a princely salary until she inquires whether it’s the before or after dethrone- ment variety. comicbooks.com