Life — April 13, 1911 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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More Cobwebs ANY lovers of animals in this community are dissatisfied with the New York branch of the S. PC. A. The Board of Managers, however, with two ex- ceptions, more than satisfied with themselves. The president also likes his position, which is nice and easy. And, judging from a recent mecting, he means to stick. The Society’s assets are successfully conserved, and it has almost 1,500 mem- bers. Now, some of these members be- seem lieve that it ought to be judged by the cruelty it leaves unchecked rather than leaves unspent; that by the money it more active management could and soon would raise its membership to ten times 1,500; and that such management can’t be furnished by any president in ninety minutes per day. Accordingly (with some difficulty and an appeal to the courts), these members, of them pretty well known, had this special meet ing called to consider the matter, And how did they consider it? By hissing suggestion for greater usefulness and by applauding every mention of their dear president. The dear president gives two hours a day—sometimes—to his job. As to the animals for whom the Society was founded—well, they can admire the building if they happen to pass by. And it is a very handsome and comfortable building, too, Right on the corner of Madison Avenue and Madison Square. most every *LIFE- It cost a lot of money. And so long as the president likes it and the Board of Managers are happy, why disturb the cobwebs? A Powerless City NDER this title, the New York World, in a recent editorial, parts these painful truths: “The city cannot suppress burglary and violence. It cannot stop half-time in the schools. It cannot clean the streets, It cannot protect the parks from hoodlums. It cannot force asphalt contractors to mend holes in the pave- ment. It cannot build subways even when it has $2,000,000 worth of plans, every legal obstacle removed and the money saved to begin with, All it can do is to spend more than $250,000,000 a year.” Boil Down the Sunday Papers HE New York newsdealers, 645 of them, thought they ought to have more than a cent apiece for handling the New York Sunday struck. The Times, arguing their claims, said papers and against Leaving entirely out of account the very great general expense involved in the produc: tion of a modern newspaper, and considering only the present high cost of white paper, it js not commercially possible for publishers to sell to newsdealers at a price less than they now charg Couldn't they manage it if they cut down the amount of white paper they use in their Sunday issues? The news- dealers argued that the Sunday papers are so big and require so much sorting and arranging that they can't handle them profitably at present rates. The LIFE’S BURGLAR-SCARER THE BURGLAR papers retort that their Sunday issues are so big that they can’t sell them to the dealers for less than they do. So the dealers scem to get it coming and xoing. The bigger the bulk of the Sun- day papers the worse they are to handle and the less the publishers can afford to allow the dealers for handling them. If the express companies could be in- duced to do business on this principle, of the bigger the package the lower the rate, how pleased the public would be with them! Boil down the Sunday papers, good publishers. It is absurd that they should be the monstrous things that most of them now are. comicbooks.com