Life — May 31, 1906 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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HILADELPHIA, PA. Tue Eprrox or, Lire Deer y prote adwerti roads from New Y hope that you will give » ation of Mi nts that Ii ladelphia leads me publ ss Reppaice’s lar protest against the disfigurement of finest picce of scenery between Philadelphia and Washington. Just above the place where Pennsylvania Railroad bridge crosses the Susquehanna the river widens as to include a beautiful island. ‘The island and river banks are covered with teces and in the distan can be seen the graceful curves of another bridg t where the nearest the nd Typewriter Company, with But in the centre scene, the island, narrow traveler, the Ham: splaced ingenuity into a point, lies 5 placed an enormous and vulgar sign. It represents a Gargantuan femal a garish red waist, operating a proportionately sized typewriter. Bes be read, but too large These crimes fe this is another sign too small to unseen tend to if the inst civilization shor taboo the ware thus proclaimed. Strange reverse be truc! rs sincerely May 9, 1906. F. Cridland Evans. AN FRANCISCO, CAL. Lire, Peatisitine Compasy Dear Lile~T a thousand dollars, I regret particularly the loss of a complete file of Lire o stand in read line ot having the price of which might privilege me to read Lire in the time when I may refugee minus many Though compelled I grieve a a barber's chair. Aw again rejoin you, Your old friend, May, 1906. RISTOL, TENN, Lire: Pustisitine Company Keep up your good work on the Dear Life missionary and divorce questions. Don't back visance and an in he letter of “A Vi Mass., and the cartoon. Does Not Work Both Ways,” are vd things that have appeared in Lire for some time I ppeat T agece with t Live is the May 6, 1906 LOUIS, MO. changed so much of late that I would + about the he y The subs berger have it now S. Limberger pation is in the name of 1. He Lim nar Avenuc, St. Louis, M “EUS * GPRINGFIELD, Mass Tor om or Lavy Dear Sir—1 have read with interest your frequent criticisms of automobilists, much of which is deserved There is another side to this question that may i terest you During the earthquake most of the automobiles owned in th isa large number. were running night and day. ca ing supplies to the sick and inj if valuable papers. etc.. places of safety and that they did more than any other one thing to help in the saving of life and property during Constant Reader red, taking the in. jured to hospitals from the burned ¢ Lunden May 12, 1906. A SALLE, ILL. To rue Eprtor or Lire Dear Socialism do injustic ir—Your comments on Socialists and an earnest and sincere group of men and betray a lamentable lack of understand, ing of a great school of thought Ever hear of Karl Marx? Prof. ER. A. Seligman, of Columbia University, says of him, “Let us add that, exception of Ricardo, there has been no mote original, no more powerful and no more acute intellect in the entire history of thaps with economic science.” Marx was preeminently would find it hard to f Every family in afl a Socialist. Miltionaires low your recent advice, circumstances nowadays keep a Socialist,” if you were to insist strictly xian standard of brains. ure of the transitoriness of “the Socialistic ebul Remember you know nothing J for a starter R0"s “The Socialists, Who They Are and What They Seck To about Socialism. Get wise first. Rea Accomplish " ‘Then digest RACING TERM W. J. Ghent’s “ Mass and Class." Dry? Not at all. You'll be surprised to find such intense human inter After this, your cerebral you'll continue reading of your own You'll begin to sce order in this hurlyburly world then. Really, you owe it to the quality of Lire and to the Higence of your readers to get busy. Very truly yours, H.C. Uthos. est in these books. centres arnuses accord May 11, 1906. While we cannot deny the expressions quoted above, our correspondent must remember that Lire is published in a community composed entirely of mil- lionaires, who regard a Socialist as a burglar regards a policeman. They are natural enemi Moreover, the resident of La Salle is in no danger of passing the door of the Rockefeller Sunday-school class. Here in New York we must be cautious. FORD. ENG Lire Pestsuisc Compaxy Dear Life—Ia a copy of Livy, which but lately fell into my hands, I noticed the following views ex- pressed by Lire: “Even had we no doubts of our religion being right and all other religions false, consider the missionary an impertinence."” As one who has long admired the justice and purity of Lire, I wish to add a word, not of protest, but of explanation, Lire evidently did not go to Sunday school the day they studied the first chapter of St John. or else he was pinching the next boy about the time they got to the tenth verse. Christians to-day cach that all other religions are false, nor did Joho. of Oxford students who are. prospective agreed unanimously that we do not go to tell people their we go to them as brothers, with assurance There nd bad we should In a recent and cosmopolitan ynaries, we discussed thisquestion and a purer love and of things which they are but gropiny have been. and are, tactless missionaries but because missionaries make mis- + not prove that all missionaries are a bilers at first our shag 1 Scots and Brite nce and p rights and unclothed freedom tohis gentle bat ancestors, s, considered Col- ferted their savage st of the good things we have we owe in large measure to Columba and his faithful co- Think again, Live, little harder next time s rs, Wadham Col 1. Moran May 4, 1906 The verdict in these matters might depend on who composed the jury. In China, for instance, they have made it reasonably clear that missionaries are not desired. And_ the might feel, North American Indian s he viewed the present con- dition of Niagara Falls, the Palisades of the Hudson and the extinction of his own people, that the coming of Col- umbus was not an undiluted blessing. comicbooks.com