Judge — December 20, 1924 — page 21: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

MERRY CHRISTMAS! ~ TLL BNE TO <— = ARREST YOU ~ ( XN AW ror WasraNcy THE INSTINCT FOR BUMMING IT by Don Herold xcept along about Christmas BE time, there are many moments of the year when I think with the more (if any) intellectual side of me that I would like to be more of a tramp and a bum. At Christinas time, home life comes into its own with a bang. The trouble of the birth and raising of all other kids in this world seems gloriously worth while on Christmas day and ww several days before and after Christ- mas. Hoping that I have dragged Christmas into this sufficiently to satisfy the request for “Christmas stuff” for this issue, I will proceed to y in and around “Beggars of Li by Jim Tully (Albert and Charles Boni.) Not that I really want to be a tramp. I just reason it out fre- quently that I would be better off if I had more tramp in my make-up, and that a lot of other people would also. What I really want is hot baths and clean pillowcases and fresh handkerchiefs. Like nearly everybody else I have consecrated my life to these things. But I do know that life would be much sweeter if we could all make up our minds to be editor's more aimless. We don’t. go nowhere enough. About the best hours I have are when I throw down my work in the middle of the afternoon and say, “To hell with all this,” without di and go out and roam Here in t destinations, goals, tination. America we targets and quotas preached into us from the cradle to the grave. ‘There is no magazine that I read more hungrily and hate more deeply than the Am magazine. So a tramp book is something good to have in the best of homes. “Beggars of Life” is mighty bore- some for long stretches, but it has trains in it, so [ read every page of it. (Continued on page 28) Old King Cole is still a merry old soul It’s Only Right T editor of a school reader de signed for impressionable minds shoulders a reat responsibility. The common school reader has a lasting influence upon the child. When the twig is bent, somebody is to blame. There should be nothing in any schoolbook children to Uhink of things they shouldn't think of. At best, young minds are liabh to cause to wander, ‘The dry element in this country appreciates that fact. Is it any wonder, therefore, that a move ment has been launched to confiscate all books that contain able” stories? By is meant anything that is at all sug- gestive of alcoholic stimulants. “objection- “objectionable” + following classies, either be- cause of title or content, are included in that category and have been condengnec The Fox ds the G The Three Little Blind I The Old Crow id the Pitcher,” “Rip Van Winkle, Webster's First Case.” Robert Cyril O' Brien Daniel wee It would sound more plausible if it had been some applejack that Adam fell for. Funnybones don’t youcry; wry” by and by but look at his situation!