Judge — December 28, 1918 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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Perrrtox Maxwett, Editor servants has again compelled order of worth and capacit measurable in mone is in it is a fool or a knave. We'd hate to be secretary of the treasury, grubbing along on i our little old $12,000 per. We'd | almost rather be the spoiled dar- | ling of plutocracy, lolling in our ' counting-room, wondering if the , help will let us run our factory | long enough to clean up last | year’s excess profits tax—may be. Harp Casu | HE word Cash has a ' magic which causes ears to prick up in any conversation. There are persons if business who cannot talk on any subject without interpolating Cash. Sometimes it is mentioned at the close of a long commercial argument with the prefix spot,” and the argument ends. > iy There cre persons who have more Cash than is good for them, and prove this by the things they do with it. Cash Joux A. Sretcunr, President Revaen P. Mucu Avo Asout McApoo } OMMENTING upon the resig } tary McAdoo, the New York 7 | the hope that the American people “feel some sense of shame” because “the coins of small denominati niggardliness of our den public officer of the first ign an ill-paid office at a critical time to repair his private fortune.” | We can’t see it that way, and | t | | to re: we doubt if Mr. Me- Adoo does. To have worthily filled the shoes of Alex- ander Hamilton and of Hugh McCulloch is an a It has been Mr. McAdoo’s for- tune to be deus ex machina in the financing of the wo war for freedom. His having been so is a key that will unlock many doors of opportunity for him. Real men do not sell their services to their country | for cash. The government pays small salaries to some doz ' big men, and big salaries to some small men. Speaking a coin popular in the who seeks public office for the money there Stercner, Secret, J. A. Wanprox, Literar: A. E. Rottaver, Treasurer Grant Haitros, Lawros Macwat in superabundance is as bad for the moral digestion of these persons as unlimited sweets are for the physical ati on of Secre- digestion of children. Imes expressed It is strange what emotional differences Cash will would cause in various persons. A newsboy with a few jingling nin his pocket is happier over ycracy toward its his balance than a millionaire who has added a fortune to Yangtse-K buy supplies on the w: his holdings betweert breakfast and luncheon. Anda bank clerk who deplores the market quotation on butter and speaks voluably and regretfully of the price of eggs can look at stacks of Cash at his elbow all through bank- ing hours with no more agitation than a column of set not figures inspires in him. Cash will do wonders, and wonders m d Cash. A tourist who once hired a junk or convenient Chinese vessel to make a voyage up the ang was advised by one who knew the pecu- liarities of Chinese currency and barter to lay in a n barrels of Cash, which, by the way, is the name of ‘lowery Kingdom, that he mi. y. He was stalled some Uistance . be done to some other he from his destination because he had to pay out cash by Lines on the First Intimations of Returning to Civil Life B: ign Georce M. Murray, U.S. N. + IPE down salutes, and Navy regs, Begone routine, and Creswell col- lars, Bring out your bowls and casks and kegs, And Jet it cost ten thousand dollars! The homespun suit, the silk cravat, With fireside stuff in rank profusion, \ “welcome” splurged upon the mat, And oh, my dear, such sweet confusion! It makes me giggle when I muse On how the Navy used to treat us: Since now they've lit the pleasure fuse, Lite itself comes out to meet us. So smite the dishpan, beat the drum, Until it shakes the well-known rafter; Back to civil life we come— Back, amidst applause gnd laughter! the half bushel in order to get cabbage and other plain foods from the‘natives who knew the value of the money and their own produce. If prices here- abouts go much higher for things people wish to eat we shall have to adjust ourselves to the Chinese method of finance and trade. Six ROMANCE is dead, they say, but we know a young man who is willing to admire her mother’s politics, and her father’s new ha eeeee JENS SS AND ¢ Henry Ford says that Senator-elect Newberry’s friends spent too much money in thelast election. We'd hate to tell you what the Michigan Democrats say about the money Henry Ford didn’t spend. comicbooks.com