Judge — October 11, 1919 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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Drawn by Henwax Pauwen Judge E Revsen P. Srercuen, Secretary Joux A. Sretcuer, President Watorox, L Perritoxn Maxwett, Editor ditorials Graxt E, Hascros, Art Dire Lawrox Mackatt, Managing aver, Treasurer Rot Edi tion A Matter or VEGETATION HINA,” says Charles Lathrop Peck, presi- dent of the American Forestry Association, “is the standing example of what a country can suffer from indiscriminate cutting of its for ”’ Thus a news item. This of course throws considerable light on the in- ternational situation. Shantung is not a question of Japanese rapacity, but a matter of vegetation. fexico is not suffering from internal disorders, but cactus. Proper forestation in the neighborhood of Fiume would undoubtedly have averted serious clashes at Versailles. Coal, according to scientists, vegetable matter buried in some the neglect of some past civili- zation is directly responsible for the difficulties over the Saar Valley The discovery is most oppor- tune. With this knowledge the work of the League of Nations becomes more agricultural than diplomatic. Wars will be fore- seen when trees begin to die out and strife will be averted simply by planting more trees. It is a bid by the scientists for control of the government. Bur- bank would become a_ master statesman. Political platforms would then resemble seed cata- logues and armament consist in sixteen-inch spraying guns with a capacity of two thousand gal- lons ‘and a range of thirty miles Cities, destroyers of forests, would disappear. The Garden of Eden would be restored The missing link would be supplied and men would again inhabit trees. Civit s the result of decayed prehistoric time, and Drawn by E,W. Krance You Can’t Fry Yc THE 6 GoveERNMENTAL GET-A-WAYS ONGRESSMEN believe one-room offices do not provide sufficient opportunity for escape from importunate constituents; therefore the chair- man of the Building Committee of the House contem- plates the introduction of a bill authorizing the con- struction of an office building that would provide each member with two rooms and a corresponding increase of facilities for giving home folks the slip. To the statesman of the I'll-help-you-if-you'll-help- me school nothing is quite so annoying as the propensity of folks from back home to drop in when in Washington to find out why he failed to land a larger appropriation than a mere quarter million for a post office at Squash- burg; how it was that New York got more than Linden- ville for waterways; why he didn’t get a couple of navy yards for Creekville—and just when he was busiest perfecting a plan to work the franking privi- lege in a manner hitherto un- dreamed of, not to mention the figuring, collection and laying out of his mileage. Then there are the rival fac- tions’ committees seeking a share of the patronage for the public- spirited citizens to whom they point with pride. He is sure to be remembered by the women-politicians, reform- ers, and the ones who “just had to tell him how perfectly lovely that last speech was’’—most likely when he is working his darnedest to win the support that will land him membership in that club with the husky private stock. One-room offices ‘0-room offices! Each Congressman ought to have a crystal maze of offices with catacombs beneath, the en- trance a trap-door fastened by the most highly perfected bur- glar-proof lock. ur Kite Wirnout Taw