Life — November 18, 1909 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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weg Modern ? . may T got out to fly? OTHE! Oh, yes; but, dear, beware Hang your shoes on the flying mac But don’t go in the air. To Save Us from Ourselves and Others NY public-spirited citizen who bas five dollars left after election might do worse than to buy an annual membership in the al Highway Protective Society (6 West t, New York). I scems a good society Henry Clews, the eminent broker, who parts his hair so wide, is the president of i The purpose is to save us from ourselves when we ride in automobiles, and from others n they do. It wants legislation providing for a High- embers appointed tir Twenty-eighth Stre whi way Commission of three ni vy the Governor, who shall have charge of ssuing licenses to chauffeurs, and of revoking or suspending them for cause It would tax the autos and motor cycles a Collar a year per horseyower for the benefit of the roa: nd and ef- ficient sympathizer to the general public on The socicty offers itself as a f the highways. The burden of recording the daily list of automobile accidents must be heavy on the rs, especially with the price of white newspap nd the price of 1 rs ought to join the H paper what it is so low. The pa way Protective Society The world elsewhere is suffering lik we are. Here is a document that is being circu- lated in England : To Her Most Gracions Majesty the Quel May it please Your Mayesty We Village Women of the United Ki humbly beseech your Ma. to help us to get relief from the motor cars, We are sure nf Majesty cannot krow how ‘much we suffer from thent,. They have made our life a misery Our children are always in danger, our thines are ruined by the dust, we cannot open our wins 3F rest is spoiled by the noise all night je to go slow through the eat thing: but we are only majority of those who If ‘they could be n villages it woul poor people and the grea Use motor cars take no account of us, We do not know what to do, so we appeal to your Majesty to use your great influence on our behalf. The } ational Highways Protective Society knows what to do and bas men out doing it. As we have, as yet, no Queen to appeal to, it is probably as efficient a friend as we can find—for the money. Lirn’s favorite remedy for automobile ac- cidents has always been to put up half a dozen gallows in Union Square and keep them full of impulsive chauffeurs; but that cure has not been tried yet. Perhaps the plan of Mr. Clews’ society is better. Let’s try it! “Prom THE MAN HIGHER ur” 707 The Blind Editor HERE is an interesting piece in the agazine about Joseph Pu- American liver. Enough is put into it to make a vera- cious narrative about a very, very extraor- dinary man. Enough is left out of it to y books. Mr. Pulitzer’s services in ih Jemcralizing the manners of American news not discussed. pers were The contemporary newspaper is a strange institution. Is it not wonderful that the men who made it and the men it is made about are expected to live side by side in harmony would be more natural with one another? ation of a per making was the ve ce W forbearance, gentleness, the after: if newspa sepa dign you-sir deporiment, reluct at are virtues in a man nce to know or speak evil of another—seem all to be vices or very close to it in a newspaper. It is a hing it is a strange thing, and the job of n strange job. Mr. Pulitzer did more than any- body else 10 make the modern pewspaper what it is. They say he is a poor sleeper. Per haps he lies awake thinking what he has done, but his biographer in the American in bothers him is not whaz nates that wh he has done but what his blindness has pre- vented hin from doing. We t not to think of h 1 all. Rather we should think of him as we do of Mr. Rockefeller, as a force working pro- digiously i ing all poir certain sphere of action, test- ts of resistance and bursting where they were weakest Died Under the Rules HE football proceedin, Cadet death seem to have been conducted with a in the course of whic yrne met his pathetic perfect regard for the formalities of the game No player concerned can be blamed a particle ADL must be ed It seems that Byrne was already disabled when he went in to his death and should have been withdrawn from the game while still alive. The failure to with- draw him seems to have been an error of jv of stimulate the vigila ent, the res ch will dou! © of managers But what about the formalities of the gare with which this pitiful sacrifice cords? Shall they get off unwhipped of ju there no responsibility anywhere for fatalitivs that happen, not reascnable the rules How would it do to ‘dent, but in ‘ord with th dings under agame of fc the next rules com- mittee under bonds to await the results of at le they devise st one season's proceedings under the rul Somebody—some unian entity with an to be re- ck, bowels and a purse—ough sponsible for football rules. Nobody is re- sponsible. They are li nothing behind them but and-death laws, with “the committee comicbooks.com