Life — April 27, 1911 — page 32: what you’re looking at

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Rhymed Reviews The Prodigal Judge (By Vaughan Kester. The Bobbs- Merrill Company) Five hundred dollars from the mint— The ransom of a Rockefeller— Those critics win who put in print The Three Best Boosts of this Great Seller! A bribe? Oh, no indeed! This smart Bobbs-Merrillittle scheme, surpris- ing A callow world, is all for Art, Without one thought of advertising. The publishers, devoid of guile, Would scorn to puff a book or shove it; s this worth while? ‘the Truth—but plenty Too bad! because the book itself Is fresh enough to merit reading Without the lure of golden pelf And somewhat tactless special plead- ing. Jt tells about Judge Slocum Price, Once well-endowed with worldly plunder, But drunkenness, that fatal vice, Has drained his force and dragged him under. He dwells in sunny Tennessee he time is Eighteen-five-and- thirty) 5 Magniloquent and brave is he, Yet sodden, shameless, fat and dirty. A little grandson's strange return, A fellow-reprobate’s devotion, ke his dormant soul to spurn ¢ blighting alcoholic potion. With bold allies, a chosen few, Though timid Law denies protection, He dares defy the dastard crew That plots a negro insurrection. He subjugates the horrid “ Clan The miscreant-in-chief he collars. Say, friends, I've boomed this all I can; Now don’t I get them lovely dollars? Arthur Guiterman, Bernard Shaw on Doctors One of the tests of greatness is to be able to define for us something that we have always known, but have not been able to express. We presume that the effect of Bernard Shaw's ut- terance about doctors, as revealed in his last book, “The Doctor's Di- lemma” (Brentano's), will be of no particular consequence, so far as the doctors themselv are concerned. Most of them will dismiss it with a show of indifference, a shrug of the shoulders; if they feel incited to say anything about it, it will be to the effect that “ Bernard Shaw is clever; but no one takes him seriously.” The truth is, however, that the doc- tors exist, not so much by their own yolition as by the permission of the great public, and inasmuch as Bernard Shaw has a large audience, and this audience makes up a very important part of the great public, the effect of his book ought to be considerable. Speaking of operations, Mr. Shaw says: To offer me a doctor as my judge and then weigh his decision with a bribe of a large sum of moncy and a virtual guarantee that if he make mistake it can never be proved him, is to go wildly beyond the ascer- tained strain which human nature will bear. It is simply unscientific to al- lege or believe that doctors do not POV Mane FIRE SAM WHEN READY 2B GRIDLEY as Seg bat under existing circum unnecessary operations, The doctors must stand moreover. Their business the public in ignorance of errors; so long as they ca’ belief that they are inf continue to make money public. Regarding the cla tionists that they have up animals, because by are saving lives (which } nies), he says: No man is allowed to put his mother ito a stove, because he desires to know how long an adult we survive at a temperature of 5 renheit, no matter how imp interesting that particular ac the store of human knowlec DE. oe: oe: ow i not the only right. . even the stupidest people say in “Tf you cannot attain to k: without burning your mother, must do without knowledge,” wisest people say, c tain to knowledge with dog, you must do without knowledge, These brief extracts from Mr. w’s book only indicate isolated stabs at the astounding and rit ical vivisectionist claims, which a based upon curiosity and mercenar motives—the two most powerful in- centives to stupid cruelty, Mr. Shaw's book ought to do good work, CT, POPULAR HEROES—REAL AND BOGUS, BUT WE TREAT THEM ALL ALIKE. 848,