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The Court of Love The •'ourt of Lore was tto» name apdied in the later Middle ages to troops of noble ladies who often, while assembled to listen to the declanati -M of the troubadours, took been•too tv decide upon questions of courtesy and etiquette, particularly to affairs at tore. According to some authorities. these courts formed regular teatttuttoos during the Twelfth eenhiry. There was a code of 31 article* *

and decisions are said to hare been based on this code. A typical example of the questions submitted to such tribunals Is the folio wing: “If a lady listened to one admirer, pressed the hand of another, and touched with her toe the foot of a third, which of these _______ • ■■■■■■

loclty known, and la one year passes over a distance of about 63,000 times the distance from the earth to the sun. As th* ran to at a distance about 92.000000 mlleo from the earth, this amounts to saying that light travels six trillion miles in a year. This unit to the light-year and la used In measuring the distances of the stars. As the Pleiades are 900 light-yews distant they are, then. 300 times six tri! tion miles away, which represents to us an inconceivably great distance.-

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By the New AdvancXhg Giant Power—the Power of Organized Business Men By PAUL P. HARRIS. Founder of Rotarfana. TIE word friendship has been given a new meaning by Rotary. And Rotarians, flushed by success, have even dared to dream of the day of universal brotherhood. The opportunity of Rotary, I believe, is in cementing international frierrcship, in helping to establish world harmony. Business has come a second consideration in Rotary, although in the beginning that was uppermost in my mind. Recently a London divine, one of the world’s greatest leaders in religious thought, commenting on civilization’s collapse, expressed the opinion /hat none of the old forces were capable of bringing the world back to peace and to God; that what politicians and churchmen had failed to accomplish, possibly might yet be done by the new advancing giant power, the power of organized business men. Rotary must not be a small esoteric circle, a close corporation, a snug and smug bourgeois group. The Rotary ideal is too big to be confined within narrow bounds. It has already burst its bonds, not once or twice, but a dozen times. Only a portion of the power of the Rotary ideal of friendship and service is within the confines of Rotary. Vast storehouses o/ it are to be found radiating from and broadcast by the groups we know as Kiwanis, Lious, Exchange, Optimists, Gyro, Civitans, etc., etc. . • There we have the business of our organizations—our service clubs —utilizing another way than the way of creed and dogma, to transform the individual capacity for unselfish' service, unit by unit, into a force of world-wide friendship and good will—a way which ignores creed and glorifies deed, away which is open to Protestant and Catholic, Jew and Gentile, Christian and Mohammedan. Ours must, always, I am convinced, be the senice wav, the way of real service, if it is to be the transformer of great spiritual energy. If we are to realize the maximum of its possibilities, the urge to unselfish service must eventually reach all men. Any ambition short of that is ethically, spiritually unsound. Let us look and pray for bigger things. This is not a day of little gods. We are in an age of big things. Material progress is almost beyond understanding. “Shall I Say Frankly That Europe Is Envious of the United States?” By SIR A. MAURICE LOW, in New York World. The United States is not only financially strong, but politically powerful. It can face its future without dismay. It has no fears of its credit being weakened, or its security assailed. Os what other country in any other part of the world can this be said? Europe lives in an armed camp where men, still with nenes unstrung from the effects of the war, foolishly play with explosive bombs and tanks of death-dealing gases. Those trembling hands and uncoordinated brains may at any time drop a bomb or turn the valve of a tank and then we shall again be wrapped in the mourning which we still wear in our hearts. Shall I say frankly that Europe is euvjous of the United States—her wealth, her power, her happiness, her comforts, her life of ease? Americans do not appreciate how fortunate they are. If they went to Europe and saw life as it really is, not from the luxury of fashionable hotels, or through the glamour of smart restaurants, or the servility of expensive shops, and 'knew how the masses of Europeans are living, not the working classes but people who were considered well off and able to enjoy not merely comfort but luxuries, they would the reasons for this envy. lam sure W apology is necessary. The facts are sufficient. “In America I Should Have Scorned the Idea of Social Welfare Work” By EMMA GOLDMAN, in “My Disillusionment in Russia." Life certainly has away of playing peculiar pranks. In America I should have scorned the idea of social welfare work: I should have considered it a cheap palliative. But in Socialist Russia the sight of pregnant women working in suffocating tobacco air and saturating themselves and their unborn with the poison, impressed me as a fundamental evil. I spoke to Liza Zorin to see whether something could not be done to ameliorate the evil. Liza claimed that “piecework” w-as the only way to induce the girls to work. As to resirooms. the women themselves had already made a fight for them, but so far nothing could be done, because no space could be spared in the factory. “BAt if even such small improvements hail not resulted from the argued, “what purpose has it served?” have achieved control,” Liza replied: “they are now in power, and they have more important- things to Attend to than restrooms—thev have the revolution to defend.” Liza Zorin had remained verv much the proletarian, but she reasoned like a nun dedicated to the service of the church. The thought oppressed me that what she called the “defense of the revolution” was really only the defense of her party in power. At any rate, nothing came of attempt at social welfare work. Must Automatic Work Bring About Deteriora- • tion of the Workers? By DR HELEN T. DUDLEY. Merrill-Palmer School, Detroit. It seems to be an accepted fact that automatic types of work are on the increase. The whole trend of production seems to be in the direction of increasing automatic processes. It has further been accepted as a fact by many people that the effect of automatic work must be to bring about deterioration of the worker. But what kinds of work are strictly monotonous or automatic? The classification has usually been made by some very intelligent onlooker. Now a process which would seem hopelessly automatic and uninteresting to a highly intelligent person wight contain sufficient elements of variety and interest for one of limited intelligence and smaM training to make it mentally satisfactory. It is notoriously difficult to get niapy'workers who have once acquired skill and speed in a given automatic process, to be willing to change and learn another one. If the monotony were proving irksome it seems as though a change <£ occupation would be far more welcome than it proves to be. Furthermore, it is very easy to confuse cause and effect. It may be that the men selected automatic work and was content to stick at it because he was a very inferior human being. It may even be that he has profited more by it than he would have by attempting something beyond his captette .Tame* E. Gorman, Rock Island Lines. —Ours is the most favored nation in the world. Every traveler who returns from Europe tells a tale of hardship in all the countries of that continent that should make every person in the United States thankful to God tor the privilege of living here, and if that thought could only find root in the minds of our people we would hare more of tiarmony, more of happiness and all the prosperity that any reasonable people should expect to enjoy. .-..m...—— < Prof. Charles E. Merriam, Univeraity of Chicago—Are we not approaching the time when it will be necessary to apply the categories of acieo.e to Jbe vastly important forces otf social and political control? s IMB e....• .. r. A. .

d We “AGIN" THE LAW A woman engaged a new maid, with whose appearance and manner she was greatly pleased. When the terms had been agreed upon the mistress said: “Now, my last maid was much too friendly with the policemen. I hope I can trust you?" “Indeed, you can, ma'am,” replied the new maid. “I can’t bear policemen. I was brought np to hate the very sight >f them. You see, my father was a burfiar.* Money Wasted. When the doctor arrived he found the patient in tears. “Cheer up, my good man.” he said, “you'll pull through all right.” “ ’Tisn’t that, doc,” groaned the patient, “but just think of the money Tve spent buying apples to keep you away.”—Harvard Lampoon. The Cure. Caller —Some weeks ago ybu gave me a plaster to enable me to get rid of lumbago. Druggist—Well, did it work? Caller—l’es. But now I want you to give me something to get rid of the plaster. Quick Change Needed. Bobby—Can’t I change my name today, ma? Mother—What in; the world do you want to change your name for? Bobby—'Cause pa said he will whip me when he gets home, as sure as my 3ame's Robert. Improving His Chances. Cashier—l don't believe, dear, that four father will consent to our marriage. "> Banker’s Daughter—Oh, yes, he will, tfter he has examined your books. He will want to keep the money in the family.—Phoenix. Also Like a Fish. Belle—Dick’s awfully poetical. Whez I accepted him he said ne felt like an immigrant entering a strange country, Donna —Well, so he was! Bella —An immigrant, why? Donna —Wasn't he just “landed?"— London Mail. OUT OF STYLE iff Am ait /i Miss Cricket —Oh, Miss Wasp, don*i you know that the corseted figure u not fashionable any longer? Auto-Mania. ; Here lies the body of Jim Lake, Tread softly all who pass; He thought his foot was on the brake But it was on the gas. Biff. “Papa, what was the Stone age?” “That was the glorious period, mj ! son, when a man axed a woman tt marry him." NOT GRAVITY, BUT EGGS Enpp “You seem to have upset the ok lady’s gravity, my boy.” “No, sir; Twas her basket of eggs.* Get Married, My Boy. There is a chore that makes me eon And ’tis no cause for laughter; And that’s to scrub the bloomin’ tub** Before my bath and after. . An Offer of Marriage. Hard-up Young Man—Sir, I have, come to tell you that I have long loved your daughter, and want to make her my wife. .Nouveau Riche—But, hang it 1 haven't got a daughter! Hard-up Young Man —Good heavens! They told me you had! Giving Himself Up. Irate Father —Look here, you young flevil, m teach you to come home with a chorus girl at four o’clock in the morning! Son —Oh. so you know how it's done, So you! Well, I don’t mind taking a tew pointers. A Linguist. Bucolic Boot Boy—l say, Sarah w*otever be a crematorium? Metropolitan Maid—Oh. you are an Ignorant boy. Why, it’s French for a milk shop, of course.—Punch. ON THE STREET “Brown says he’s financially all In.* “Yes,; Just told me he’s every ifert | oqL* B .

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Braham Banner ar aejiw anuamt utater BILLIE BROWNIE'S CALLS Billie Brownie, who had been given the power by Mother Nature to understand her children, thought he would like to talk to a beaver. He went to a beaver home in a marsh and, sitting near the great Beaver establishment, he talked to little Master Brown Beaver. “I was one of four,” said little Master Brown Beaver. “My mother was barely two years old. She was what you would call a young mother, out that is the way with Beavers. “Their mothers are young and tbelr daddies are young, too; but it does not mean they act like children. “No, they grow up and become wise and solemn and of full growth by the time they are two years old. So it is with me. “I am a good worker —we all like to work, to build and to do what we can. “And I’m a strong beaver, just as all the members of our family are strong and healthy. “I eat good, substantial meals of the bark of willows and small aspens. "These make me strong. Then, too, it doesn’t make any difference,'really, about the trees, as these trees, they say, are of little use and of little value as 'timber.’ “That is what the authorities say, and authorities, I have been told, know what they are talking about. They wouldn’t be authorities if they didn’t. “But I must go on with my work. It is getting late, and when It gets late I get busy. FOr we like to work at night best. ‘Tve some relatives in the zoos, too, Tm told. They are friendly and affectionate, and make good pets. They work hard, too, and often help the aoo _ people. H “Sometimes they do work which Is not expected of them and which Isn’t just the work that is wanted, but no matter! We’re all hard workers. “So I mustn’t talk too much, but must really act instead. •Tve talked a great deal for a beaver. We’re quiet, you know —a quiet lot, all of us.” “Good-by," Billie Brownie said, “and I’m thankful to you for this little talk.” “You’re welcome, you’re welcome, Billie Brownie.” said Master Brown Beaver, as he turned to his work with great energy. Then Billie Brownie went to call on the Oum-e. or Snow-Leopard, as he is usually called. To call on him Billie Brownie went to a zoo. “My home was in the mountains of Asia, where there was snow,” the “I’ve Been Cross Ever Since I. came." Snow-Leopard told Billie Brownie. "And I don’t like too life. “I’ve been cross ever since I came here and I expect to be cross always. “I’ve not a good disposition. I’ve what you might call an'ugly disposition. “But here there are no mountain!, and never enough snow. And it all makes me mad. i “Even when I’m free I’m not what you'd call a sociable, pleasant, friendly animal. “No, Billie Brownie, I only care to snarl at you. I don’t care to talk pleasantly to you." So Billie Brownie left the Ounce, or Snow-Leopard, and went to call on the lions, elephants and the rhinoceros, and the monkeys. AH of these were far more friendly and talked to Billie of the good meals they had had, and still expected to have, and of friendly keepers and of admiring crowds of boys and girls who came to visit them. And then Billie Brownie went home to tell the others of the animals he had seen on his latest trip. It Was Fourteen to Three. Two little boys who had been naughty were told by their teacher that they must stay after school and write their names 500 times. One of them began to watch the other unhappily. , “Why don’t you write. Tommy r asked the teacher. Tommy burst Into tears. ’ ’"Tisn’t fair!" he said between soba. “His name's Lee and mine’s Schluttermeyer!" ’ ’ . A Quaker Oath. Two small boys In a family of Friends had a disagreement during which the older boy became very much Incensed. Finally, no longer able to control himself, he took his brother by the shoulders and shook him, with the exclamation: “Oh, thee little you, thee!" Then, as the enormity of his offense eame over him, be said in a changed voice: “Don’t tell mother I swore.” Vocabulary Uncertain. The boy furrowed his brow over the ' «»th mlna tion question, “What is a canard?” At last he wrote down bis reply: “Something you cana rdly believe." He still finds it painful to sit down! A Pious Hope. * Superintendent es Sunday School (whose enthusiasm runs toward regular attendanca) —Out of the entire school only one pupil Is absent today —little Doris Smith—let ns hope that ahe is ill.—London Opinion.