Judge — July 21, 1923 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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t J. A, Waldron - William Morris Houghton William Edgar Fisher EDITORIAL Is There a Doctor in the Audience? ARDING Edward Bok’s offer of $100,000 to the origi- nator of the “best practicable plan” for obtaining the co-operation of the United States with other nations to bring an end to war, we should like to make a suggestion or two. In the first place, no plan of the sort is “practicable”— thatis, “possible of execution or performance,” as theStandard Dictionary” defines the word—unless it can command a t thirds vote in the United States Senate, i in this respect And its practic as we have seen demonstrated more than onc bears no relation whatever to its merits in other respe instead of paying the whole : mount of the prize plan’s originator, why not set aside a generous fraction -ond prize for the political obstetrician who will anws- » Hiram Johnson and deliver the child alive? Young Man, Go Work the graduating class at Harvard this nounced their intention of The next sar ninety-odd entering sst number, eighty-nine, pected to become lawyers. “business.” aid they ex And so on down through the list ot one, so far as we recall, $s going to be a dirt farmer or a brick! worker or a seaman. Not onc, apparently, has the imagi- nation and temerity to burst through the paper hoop of con- vention and enter upon the adventure of a manual trade, however highly paid at the outset or bright with prospect The richest man in the world started as a mechani greatest inventor as a telegrapher, the greatest nov: sailor. of white-collar occupations. said he wi ror an iron st as a And what about the ironmasters who began as pud- dlers, the builders who began as carpenters who began as fishermen? has | the bootleggers We venture to say that manual toil ¢n the cradle of more genius than ever came out of colleges, and of more great fortunes also, though one doesn’t hear about it in baccalaureate sermons. This country could get along famou many salesmen and journalists and lawyers and stomach speciali: but unless the young men who are flooding through our colleges to-day show some inclination soon to do the more necessary work of the world we shall be forced to importing hunkies again to do it for us. Why don’t our distraught pedagogues, instead of seeking with feeble protests to stem the enormous tide of American youth that has set toward college, try guiding their growing output of graduates into the more useful, the more adventurous channels indicated? y with a third as Such a course, if successful, would add immense dignity of labor, it would mitigate » and it would greatly increase the proportion of men in our population to white-collar slaves. Let the girls have the polite jobs; they seem bound to get them anyway. | to the our labor shorte A Wreath of Tears ne EYES of General Goura I tue of Liberty on his re filled with tears. So, at k But, then, it was lips with the words, “Lafayette, we are here;” who « the commander of the Lost Battalion with the mess to hell!” Reporters are responsible for most of the movie titles of hist« Neverthe believe that General Gouraud’s emotion, on bcholding for the first time his country’s famous gift to ours, was not wholly apocryphal. Frenchmen, even French generals with nine wounds and a lifetime of gallant and distinguished service behind them, are notoriously more emotional than we And who of us, to-day, at sight of the Goddess of Liberty, doesn’t feel like weeping? ame abreast of the al in this country, said. dorned Pershing’s redited ss, we can In Scopolamino Veritas NE Convention of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World, recently in session in Atlantic City, adopted a resolution urging that America observe a Truth Week, beginning next Washington's Birthday. During this week, we assume, it is intended that not only advertisers but all good citizens tell the truth, and not only in business but in the home where it is likely to come the hardest and make the most lasting impression. Providentially for the success of such an experiment a Dr. House, of Fe Tex., has proved that the truth can be extracted painlessly from human beings by the use of scopo- Jamin, the drug associated with the twilight sleep method of childbirth, If, therefore, the advertising men are in earnest about their Truth Week, we strongly advise them to make sure that enough scopolamin is on hand and properly distrib- uted when the time comes to put us all under its influence. Otherwise, Truth Week or no Truth Wee woman or child who re be a liar in the land. k, for every man, 1s the use of his senses, there will “Everybody's Business” ‘ X J © nore from the advertisement of a Chicago directory that it lists the “names of 40,000 persons living in the better districts of Chicago and suburbs whose indicated income 000." Tt is explained that no house dweller is included whose dwelling does not represent a minimum value of $20,000 and no apartment dweller whose month rental falls below besides the street address and telephone number, automobile owned and approximate apartment rental paid (in the case of an apartment dweller) are given after each name.” ‘This information is not only valuable but exciting so as it goes, yet it only whets our appetite for more. How many bathrooms does cach establishment afford? = What is the approximate size of the laundry bill from week to week? Do master and mistress occupy twin beds or sey y doubt these and other questions will be answered as the investi- gators for our directories grow more expert. One can’t know too much about the plutocracy, whether the object is to sell them something, or to solicit their subscriptions, or merely to pattern after them. As for them, nobles. are in excess of § rate rooms? » oblige! comicbooks.com