Judge — June 19, 1920 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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D \. Sterner, Pr Revne 2S s i on Maxwent, Jasmes S. Mer r ETS all stop being crazy for a wiile: say for tive or six, or four years. This means you!—and us, and everybody. After that. if any one wants aj to turn into a mad-house t rather pleasant world of ours, it will still be his right and pri lege to try to do it This proposed experiment in. sanity s not so deing things as to put a stop on a lot of folks trying to do things, o1 g our time talking and writing about doing thir that are not feasible, or, if they could be done, would not be worth the doing O clear the atmosphere the new order of affairs it might be well to administer that form of punishment known as the swift kick in the third d to certain sundry persons. Such as, for in: The labor agitator who makes his liv fring up work zainst the habit of doing a fair day's work for a fair The parlor reformers, male and female, who dabble in Anarchy and Bolshevism and supply the means for the dis semination of the propaganda of those anti-American ¢ Presidents who are presidents for themselves and all the d by the American peopl 1 that Ic : rest of the world rather than for, of Employers of labor who haven't learn ours and small pay are no longer in fashior entered entirely ressmen whe patriotism i Women of fashion. social climbers. that useless gentry Yellow journalists whose consciences and ideals rise no higher than schemes to sell their papers And many others. Make your own list HE, swift kick referred to most takes the form of the cold shoulder, ostracism. or the boycott: call what its varied forms is much you please a process which ir the same and effective only in the method of its application » fellow likes to get it from friends, associates or supporters and they are the ones who must apply it to achieve any real results. A swift kick from some one on another planet would be wasted on the circumambient atmosphere Sefore applying this provocative to general sanity in others a little self-examination might not be an unwise preliminary To take one's self out behind the shed and come right down to 16 \. E. Rottace Treasurer Grast E. Hasrero: t or rihw f 1A. Wanprox. of L , brass tacks is not always a pleasant t is a whole some one, if it be honestly and thor t start with a self- Having first classified Just: by of suggestion, we mig sm something along these lines way you might ask yourself: yourself in your particular walk of life Have [ really any valid excuse for occupying as much of the carth’s surface, and consuming h of the world’s goods, as I do? Po I make anything like a fair return for what I get? Do I use my time. my money, my vote, my man-servant, my maid-servant, my ox. my ass and everything that is mine in the very best way that I know how? Do I, as far as is convenient, do unto others as 1 would ve others do unto me? AVING answered all these and similar questions satis torily and in the affirmative. you are nowin proper condi tion to do a job of mote and beam removing for other 1g other folks from the pleasure We beg your pardon for people. You might even become a professional Prohib d draw a fat salary for keer sociating with the Demon Rum sinuating that you could Anyhow we'll take it for granted that you are a sufficiently xd American to want to help and do your share in getting us Il back to a sane If your peculiar obsession is c only to realize that you can’t get all the of jo this. care oney. basis tting you in the world. It can't be done, and you might as well stop where vou are If your mania is money-spending, try to realize that eight Russian sables fresh outfit arls a automobiles and a of every day is as much as any reasonable woman ought to expect. And sake of business ong effort of will there are in the world such things as boob dogs. horses. green fields, grazing cattle. running brooks, rnighty other things almost as inter- your absorption is the big game—husiness for the it won't do you a bit of hurt once in a while » shift your mind to realize that s. pictures, music, to make mountains, still forests and lots esting as matching your wits with some other fellow’s over big deal No matter who you are or what you are, you can do your and needed work of getting the world back to t vit_in the grea sanity. if only you will Unselfishness. A thought for the other fellow. A healthy hatred for the slacker and grafter. wherever vou find siness, society, the church, ood, him or her, in politics. your shop. b