Life — December 3, 1908 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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(Continued from page 608.) I do it? Well, I just forgot all I had Jearned at school, procured a bunch of exams. sly given out and stored away a few of stand-by questions and marched through a, thereby changing from an idiot to a Yes, they all start out as beasts and years they are officers and gentlemen by order. But if they didn’t get a good education from those same schools and colleges the Colonel thinks so little of, they are still very poorly edu- cated. for West Point only trains them to be soldiers. No, I didn’t stay at West Point. 1 was only an alternate, but what I saw was enough to make the grapes a little less sour, The can find a large field for his energies : leaving the reservation of the military acade'y. One of the greatest troubles at the xeadeny is football—everything is football. If you can't play football it is a sin for you to hold an appointment, for you might be keeping out a tive quarter, or a scrub tackle. If you clieve me, ask the Colonel—he knows. Sour Grares MIA, Pa., October 13, 1908. Epitor oF Lire: You speak in your current issue of the ness office control '’ of our newspapers. Is not because of such control that the press to day has practically lost all influence with the Is it not true that the editorial pages of our great metropolitan dailies do not represent principles and convictions of the but are merely the paid for utterances of an employee? Is it not “what pays best” her than “ what is right '’ that determines the E of our so-called great journals? Why bet? This is a commercial age, and we are s commercial people. For the past thirty years the creed of the Republican party has been that the only patriotism that is worth while is the patriotism which makes money. And the Republican party has been making money for itself and its friends pretty steady. They own pretty nearly everything that money can buy, and the press is one of their “dearest posses- sions’ Papers like the World and the Journal, of ccurse, are run solely in the interests of Mr Puliizer and Mr. Hearst. The press, like the rest of us, is “out for the dough.”? “It is not in business for its health.” It is not going to fight the G. O. P. trust or the theatrical trust if i: is going to suffer thereby, The public has got cn to this now, and the utterances of the press carry no more weight with it than a puff of wind. It is a vast pity that this is so, but thal it is so none knows better than Lire, in the fight it has-made against the theatrical trust H. Simoxs. the honest writer ions"? Now York, October 14, 1908. To ie Eprror or Lire: Sr-—Apropos of the passing of mother so plaintively chronicled in last week's Lire may T © an inquiry or two for father? School privcipals for instance often believe their re- semblance to the dodo is striking. Several of then recently issued requests that the fathers of certain of their pupils meet to confer with then about some urgent question pertaining to their sons’ welfare. Out of 20 such requests 1 resyonded—and their report says that this is absolutely “ typical.”” Generalizations from the set of idle (men) women who have always dodged their re- ilities to “ mothers" is misleading. A slance over the statistics of widows who some (Continued on page 610.) These are Six Cylinder Times Be it ever so good, no other excellence of the six-cylinder. type of motor car reaches the Nor is this a matter of individual opinion. It is a mechanical truth that can be demonstrated absolutely. We prove it every day to open-minded inquirers with the self- starting, sweet-running WINTON SI Goes the Route Like Coasting Down Hill Designed with the skill of pi and long-con- tinued experience. 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