Judge — November 30, 1918 — page 14: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

BDLITORIAL| Comment Creve and Gay an These as Ther Pager Tue Kips or Topay OW drab was our boyhood! Marbles and “pussy,” prisoner’s base, and Oliver Optic and the old houseboat on the Mississippi. Today, the American Boy lives amid the greatest adventure of humanit He sees the endless khaki legions press forward to glory; he hears at every corner, in village, hamlet or city, the shout of victo} he sees the soldiers of all nations return from the great battlefields with the crosses of bravery pinned on their breasts and the light of tre- mendous emprise in their eyes. Kids of today !—how we envy you— Boy Scouts and Campfire Boys and Thrift Stamp Boys, doing your great bitin the Terrible Times, with your beautiful young faces aglow with pride, with your little caps set so cockily on your heads, with your reverential salute to The Star Spangled Banner, and the splendidffaith of your upraised hand. You, Boys of Amer- ica, Boys of France, Boys of England, are living — Drews by A.B. Wacsex your fairy-story; you are living your great Germany will find story-books; you are the privileged beings of an unbelievable time. How Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, and all the rest of the mischievous crew, must envy you from their tombs! Hats off to the soldierly, brave, beautiful, sturdy American super-kids—our Boys! as * * COMPLAINT is made of a scarcity of pennies in towns where they have the six-cent carfare. Why not use the penny that is left from a ten-dollar bill after you buy your day’s groceries? Tue War Arter Tue War parbed-wire entanglem DD THE BST Rez ee SUB A AS Pie B oS LING Tuose Mape-1n-Germany Toys OYS! No cargo of any single ship has ever caused such conjecture and controversy as the shipment of German toys which recently arrived, via Holland, at New York. Women’s clubs and other bodies have contributed a score of resolutions suggest- ing fitting dispositions of the playthings, the plan most favored being to take the toys to the New Jersey meadows and make a public bonfire of them. The high point of indignant foolishness was reached by a volunteer committee who proposed that the toys be purchased by popular subscription and given to the children of the country to be kicked to pieces on an arranged date. Is it necessary for a warring country, with serious problems at hand, to devote its attention to the problem of destroying children’s playthings? One of the seven deal- ers to whom the toys were consigned voluntarily re- fused to sell them, reck- Ooning their cost as loss incidental to the ‘war. Their good example will probably govern the ac- tion of the other con- signees. Patriotic Christ- mas shoppers will not buy German-made toys this year, but throughout the country, there are orphanages and childrens’ homes whose juvenile populations are too young to appreciate points of nationality but where the distribution of. the outlawed toys would do the maximum good and spread to the mini- mum the propaganda of the country where they were made. nts of another kind. . . . What was left of the Hindenburg line looked like the equator as described in the schoolgirl’s essay—“a menagerie lion running around the earth.” But Tue Brow Is Over Now comicbooks.com