Judge — November 2, 1918 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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Se SS SS EF ——<<=$= EDIiTORILAL Comment Creve aud Gay ou Things as They Pas PERCENTAGE PATRIOTISM REN’T we overdoing this ‘100 per cent American” business, just a bit?) Can a man be a percentage patriot?) Can a man be a go, or an 80, or a 75 per cent. Americar Children say: ‘‘Honest truth? Cross your heart?" As if the truth could be other than honest! As if crossing your heart could make it the truth if it wasn’t! There are good eggs, and bad eggs but nobody ever ate a “pretty fair” egg, and nobody nowadays is a pretty near American. You are one, or you aren’t one. Percentaging your patriotism can add nothing and may subtract something of public confidence. “Methinks the lady doth protest too much.”’ Calling yourself a hundred percenter is hyperbole—or else it’s hypocrisy We are getting bravely over hyphenated citiz We don’t like to be called Irish-Americans, or Americans, or Russian-Americans, any more. just Americans, that’s all, and proud of it! Then why not drop the percentage patriotism along with the adjectived Americanism? A War By-Propu a ELIGIOUS R TOLER- ANCE,” say John R. Mott, ‘tis one of the by-products of war.” These joint war- chest drives conducted for all the war chari- ties, Protestant, Cath- olic, Jew or neither, were the occasion of his saying it. The occasion; not the cause; that lies deeper. Men who bunk to- gether, fight together, die together, forget to be angry with one an- other over the roads to heaven. It has long been a reproach to our people that so much of intolerance should sur- vive in America, which owed its very birth to men’s longing for free- dom of worship. Draven by J. A. Rras “Taxinc His Measure.” The more religion there is the less religious in- tolerance there will be; and if ever there were a true crusade this war against the Hun is one! We read some statistics, the other day, purporting to show that the average salary paid to clergymen in some American denominations runs as low as $480 a year. The average, mind you, not the minimum. Perhaps another by-product of the war will be a determination to pay the men who seek to save our souls as decent a wage as we pay those who serve our bodies. Sixes anpb SEVENS HE middleman is the true altruist. He kicks every- time the wholesaler boosts the price and he passes the boost along to the consumer plus the merest nominal fee for the kick. * . . The meek shall inherit the earth. Maybe if he gets a hustle on, he can borrow enough on his prospective property to pay the inheritance tax. . . . Senator Lewis, the majority whip in the United States Senate, means well, and usually does well, but what our Government— majority and minority alike— needs just now is less party whips and more self-starters. * . . The Salvation Army has been abolished by government order in Germany, butitis plug- ging right along every- where else with its head unturned by this daz- zling compliment. * . . Morris Hilquit says that politics both na- tional and international will be controlled by the Socialists after the war. Morris certainly can’t hire out to the movies to star as the silver lining. comicbooks.com