Judge — October 12, 1918 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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Draven by Ress Westov inn A Recktess Driver Quips and Quirks By Benjamin De Casseres An Artocracy HE human race has tried every form of govern- ment, and they have all failed. The next form will be socialism, or govern- ment by wicket and referendum, a feudalism of office- holders, an oligarchy of petty tyrants. One form, and one form only, we have not tried a government for artists, by artists and of artists. A ruler who is a great poet and a cabinet made up of aSecretary of Music, a Secretary of Painting, a Secretary of Satire, ecretary of Dancing—and soon—why not The world will soon be experimenting with “new social forms. Let us try an Artocracy. Paradoxes of Progress WE 20 00 by dyit Great civilizations are founded on war. Victory is for those who know when to weaken and when to strike. Defeat is the mother of character. Civilization is like a runner—it takes some steps backward in order to reach its goal. The human race learns to walk by falling down. On the ruins of empires grow the gardens of freedom Ennui ESNUI is a word invented by those who dare not admit they are poor enough to be tired or silly enough to be bored. Only. the very poor dare admit they are tired. It sometimes comes from overwork. The “smart set” is the province of the bored. The bored have a coat of arms—a lounge-lizard yawning, in an opera seat. Debt couchant in the rear. Ennui is the fourth dimension of both the tired and the bored. It is a state of lassitude where things just occur, but nothing ever happens. Its coat of arms is a lemon fleuri. Aberrations AUTHORS’ motto: Nothing succeeds like a check. Colonel House is silent, and never speaks about it A woman's heart is like her muff—you never can tell! There are so many brilliant writers in the world now that it really pays to be stupid. It is now said that King David did not write the Psalms. But Dave brought home the Bacon just the same. comicbooks.com