Judge — April 26, 1919 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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

Joux A. Stetcner, Presid Reenes Stutcuer, Seer Peaniton Maxwett, Biiter TAL Watnnos Nicut, Nicurie, Joun Barieycorn! LD John Barleycorn is prone upon his death- bed. The legislative doctors have pro nounced his doom: they have even far as to fix the date of his demise. In the passing of this notorious char- acter, America will have lost one of the most picturesque of its nationally prominent figures. From the landing he first Dutch settlers in Nicu sterdam to the closing of the last gin-mill on the Bowery, John Barley- corn has been an omniscient and mighty character in the history of the New World. His influence has been felt wherever the foot of man has trod and wher- ever a still was erected. The potency of his living presence has penetrated every slum and enlivened every social gathering in the homes of the rich He has controlled more careers than money: he has remoulded more human souls than the creeds of any faith, He has sustained the dying traveler in snow- nd vastnesses; he has put the deadly final touch upon his handiwork of undermined health with a single slass of grog; he has instilled new courage in troops holding a forlorn hope and destroyed babes at their her’s breasts. Compounded of evil and destruction, he t a meritorious part in the annals of medicine. Twin brother of incredible irlum and the most hideous rms of death, he has pre- sided at bridal banquets and is ever present at communion altar How much of physical spiritual destru be yed wor owes to John Barleycorn will never to what inspi t mortal creati in the arts he was the first source, only tradition ca affirm. That he was a con lex of disaster, dar ion and the propulsion ¢ progress, history plainly cords. Whether he will be missed out of life, taking with him into oblivion some hours of joy, or whether with his going a great curse difori VE. Rous Treaure Geant BE. Ub ary Editor Lawroy Macwa is removed from the world will be a matter of cont tion for many moons to come. Let us step softly as the giant breathes his last He was an ugly old sport but he J some admirable We stand by k ‘ar-bier (2.75 per cent.) with led emotions. When he is finally stilled and goe out of life into the valley of moonshine we can at be give him a parting salute. So Hail and farewell, John Barleycorn! \ Fry Worip HILE much that relates to the war is still i the air, the world itself is goir up betime The airplane, a fixed feature of conflict, i become a varied institution in civic a social life. At least three nations are grooming ocean machines for competitive flight, and transatlantic voyaging in the ether is but a step into the future. Invention will run riot for the benefit of joy and business. Sooner or later the fool-proof machine will be adapted to more uses than the imagination can just now conceive. And then even the birds will have to look out There is a prospect that the big shops in the great cities may utilize their spacious roofs as starting points for goods delivery by plane, thus decreasing bility of accidents the streets, although such means of transport may add to the hazards of the air. And already explorers are talking about the employment of airm and antarctic regions which thus far it has been impos- sible for man to reach, and no doubt there are other remote mundane regic that by like means may be opened tohuman knowledge. We shall see—and some of us will fly in—acrial ta commercial trucks, clop racers, honeymoon cor family broughams. _ police patrols, and possibly the e terprising burglar after bur- gling will get away ina powered flivver with his loot There is something new under the sun, after all! possi- chines to search arctic comicbooks.com