Judge — December 7, 1918 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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Be or Goop Cneer Ovr Boys axp Our History leased to note that the American public are devoting more attention than ever current events. In one school, for are being coached on President ly to the Austro- his fourteen war YEAR has wrought great changes in the world. Christmas seems less of a trad and more of an actuality than it seemed twelve months ago. In this country, at least, the rejoicing over recent happening may well be followed by something like a norm bration of the season of good cheer ‘or four depressing years, Christn * have been lost to the world, with all the blesse its long observance had inculcated. And for those four that pprehension have wi States i long after we r will be vividly remembere ach the youngest child so ht—what it is, d as has seemed but we must remember it years, a weary period, horror and been the chief phases of emotion the world over, w a year ago they were dominant and compell But this Christmas is different. It sees thankfulness know who the pres and hope in countries where suffering and despair what.’ Can an American not know that, and know have long held sway. The lands directly involved in) what’ Most of our presidents were leaders, the world’s greatest catastrophe, so sorely pre: few of them failed to connect up with events vitally tried, during a period which has tran all other periods in history in the magnitude of its It be well for our children to know their events, its cumulative terrors, and tt ureof Casar’s Commentaries, but it more important its possibilities, are beginning to realize that their fo that they know their Saratoga and their Gettysburg tude and sacrifices have that they know why the not been in vain, And - embattled farmers fired in other lands, oppressed \ the shot, and why Wash- for ages, new peoples 4 will rise to participate ' with their rescuers in liberty. Their redemp- tion may be delayed by sinister influences, but it seems assured. America, potent in the enforcement of anew con- ption of humanity and freedom, has earned the right newly tocherish and observe all that Christ- mas means. Surely, al though slowly, normal conditions will retur: and Christmas, as of o! will again emphasize joy and good will. In fact, such are the circum- stances that it will h \ young man not many years ago applied for a per reporter. He said that “he didn’t nts were, but he knew what's job as a news ev what sed, soa d vital to our amazing history. sinister ington’s tatterde lion warriors dragged their bleeding feet a- through the snow at Valley Forge. ANSWERED HAT thrilling prob- lem which has been agitating about a hun- dred million souls and Gertrude Atherton, “What shall we do with the kaiser?"’ can now be solved. ‘There is a scar- city of “sand hogs,” those human moles who labor in the excavation of sub- cellars and sewers. Judge r will personally undertake after mean more than it to secure a permanent job has ever meant before, for for Villium in the cesspool the world never again can P = division of the Depart- pass througha period that . ment of Public Works on nullifies or obscures the Prows by FE. Fuomm Barren Island. So that’s significance of the day. Some Day You Witt Tank Hist ror Taxixc Orr Tus Yowe that! comicbooks.com