Judge — May 1, 1920 — page 27: what you’re looking at

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Snobbishness a la Carte By Bexyasuy De Cassenes a blind man. strikers’ meeting. It dresses in a swea ter at the opera. city room, It is a child’s idea of aristocr: It is the two-fingered handsha It is a peacock in a barnyard. It is Bry: soful human nature. It is the ciderdown lining of a hairshirt. It is the gent among gentlemen. It is the butler at the beefsteak party. It is a Jones dressed as a Jupiter. It is to look every inch a king except the cars. It is a German grandee. Rip Van Winkle to John Barleycorn ep, but I came back.” “Cheer up, Jack; I once had a twenty years’ ‘OBBISHNESS is a monocle in the eye of It wears a high hat and evening clothes at a It wears a mortar-board in a newspaper's nism in the presence of common, ys of yore onc conveyed a message to in this manner + | rs by PL. Cuon se Bat nowadays the campfire girl can easily “pret the boy scout’s message by means of ¢ semaphore. | The progress of the past, as well as that of the future, is measured by criticism—for criticism exists only where there is faith in ability to improve. We do not criticise an ox cart | or condemn the tallow dip, for the simple reason that they are obsolete. During the reconstruction period | through which our country is now | passing, if the public does not criticise any public utility or other | form of service, it is because there Measure of Progress One System seems little hope for improvement. The intricate mechanism of tele- phone service is, under the most favorable conditions, subject to criticism, for the reason that it is the most intimate of all personal services. The accomplishment of the tele- phone in the past fixed the quality of service demanded today; a greater accomplishment in quality and scope of service will set new standards for the future. AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY AND ASSOCIATED COMPANIES Universal Service Tobacco Won the War By Ons C. Livtir “How, then, did I win the war? I did it by smoking my pipe,” says Marshal Foch, in an interview published in the Echo de Paris. He then goes on to explain that it was not the mere burning of tobacco, but the habit of calm, con- centrated thinking engendered thereby, that helped him to turn the trick. It was more often a cigarette thana pipe that | brought solace to our own doughboys engaged | in helping the Marshal, but a couple of million | or so of them will testify that his smoke philosophy is sound. And so tobacco did its bit to save the world. Yet there are those who still persist in wanting to save the world from tobacco. He Wanted to Know “Where are those smart models in new hats?"” Mr. Flivver, who had gone shopping fe. “There they are.” “But they are just hats. models?” Where are the comicbooks.com