Judge — May 7, 1921 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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Perrrrox Maxwett, Editor an \. Watpros, 7 Ove Heaps FuLL or Heapitnes LEVEN Negroes in Alabama murdered! Professor Mumford says we cat less meat because we are advancing in civilization. Hughes claims pre-war rights in all lands under mandates. Japan willing to discuss Yap. Superior air-power only can save our cities from destruction in the next war, City boys are healthier than farm boys. With virgin soil gone we compete without advantage for world-trade. Keeping This is our headline knowledge. Superficial critics say it is superficiol. Yet these ejaculations hold half the facts and half the philosophy of the news The outstanding fact of yesterday is that it is gone; of the World War, that we won; of antiquity, that it is dead. This huddle of items is not education, but it makes psychology which the army say's is the vital thing about us. The press will never get much credit for producing thought from critics who Deeper thinkers, like Lord Brougham in love aids success cannot themselves think. and Ben Franklin, had other ideas. Compare the headlines with the titles of the books selected by experts for our youth. Most of these books are flowers, not food. Of all the selections Harvard made the wisest, making it obligatory for students to read the Bible and Shakespeare. If all the nation now reading headlines could feed upon these two feasts, our people would have enough meat and drink to last them through this world and all eternity. And half of these books is headline. Headlines are the signboards of history while it is hot; and knowledge bends over them like the shade of Diedrich Knicker- bocker over the shoulder of Washington Irving. Headlines are the chatter of his tory in the making—a history that will go unrecorded tumorrow Wuy Not Live 160 Years? is the degenerative changes in tue rt, blood and kidneys of which Dominate your environ- “Tr I’, mankind dies. ment and marry your physical mate.” Temple University thus endorses Metch- he: nikoff. Three centenarians reinforce this by saying “Don't worry.” Had we not mislaid the rules by which Methuselah won, the championship we would not monkey hglands. Thescientific and village pa triarch methods of longevity agree. If we want to live long we must make a busi- w Drwes by Hewwss Parser Movixe-Day 1x 4 ness of it, follow the rules, not cat mince pie too often ner inarry too much. You must bear all the seven plagues of Egvypt—and don’t worry—lift up your heart every time it sinks, think of all the choruses of the joy-songs, and give your spirita double-shufile to keep time with those jazzers wh» are burning up the slide. The old folks tive long because they pay attention to it You can not form a trust, run for office, win the war cross, walk on the railroad track and go love-s.a after widows, and expect reasonably to be the patriach of the settlement. The cugenic marriage draws much inspiration fram observing the gray heads in the back counties. For it often happens that people live long because they were born thet way. This explains why the centenarians urge all emulators: Don't drink whiskey drink until you go crazy. Don’t drink tea nor coffce; drink a allon a meal. Don’t use tobacco: snuff, smoke and chew all the time. Don’t overwork; work until you drop. Don’t expose yourself to the weather; live outdoors in all weathers. Each old record-breaker tells what cured him—or her. you will notice that they are quiet people nursing the s ambition to stick. Most of them avoid starting fights at the picnic and move away from powder kegs when they want to light matches. And then, after taking a wide view, we remem- ber Cassius M. Clay, who saved Kentucky for the Union and married a girl and fought the sherifi’s posse when nearly 1oo. But then venerable stormy petrels everywhere fly through theory, and when we see Joe Cannon we wonder—and stop. Tie Brerovep Criminat ONT shoot burglars!” urges a lecturer. Moral maxims and extra vigilance will eradicate them—in good time. We have watched interestedly the pity lavished upon the persecuted innocence of convicted bomb-throwers mur- derers. It seems a strange delusion— that the softer seatiments will melt the hard elements. It is bizarre—when love, oblivious to the criminal outside the walls, embraces him with weepy tender- ness insi and Dilating upon the miseries of crime is an insult to virtue. Fostering snakes is folly, because they sting; it is cruelty, because it perpetuates them and _ their poison. The curse of one generation to another is to pass on a fresh crop of im- beeiles and criminals. fatten the spawn of the worst part of society is to bleed the best part. Ovo Athess comicbooks.com