Life — June 8, 1911 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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Which Shall the Fourth of July Be This Year ? ° ‘LUPE « THE MORNING AFTER S s ago Lire called at- tention pictorially to the destruc- tion of life on the Fourth of July through the senseless practice of shoot- ing off fire crackers, toy pistols and can- rons Other periodicals, following Lire’s lead, took up the matter, which finally sprea‘l, until the propaganda in favor of a quiet Fourth became general. In spite of this fact, however, the er of deaths last year through the celebration of the Fourth was nearly as large as ever. Erethren of the Press, let’s keep up the fight this year with renewed efforts. Every parent and guardian in the coun- try should be convinced that the memory of Independence Day can be kept alive without a lot of boisterous carnage of young children. We reproduce on this page the orig- inal picture which, printed many years in Lire (July 10, 1902), started the crusade. This picture has been used many times, We gladly permit its re- production by any paper in the country, with credit to Lire Or if our friends wish us to supply the cut, we will do so at the nominal cost of having it clectrotyped upon them with a sort of amused toler- ance, We respect them what advantages we may reap out of the contact. But this swashbuckler is foing too far, and even at the risk of cisturbi the hitherto pleasant relo tions which have existed between two countrics of common blood we think he should be promptly handed over to the police.” This is interesting, but unimportant It helps me rather than otherwise, be- cause it only emphasizes the fact of how according to strong I am with the King. Nobody around the palace, from the keeper of the Royal Seals down to the Prime Mi ister, doubts that the King is really de- pendent upon me to pull off this coro- nation. He said to me yesterda “Bally, old chap, you won't dese now, will you?” and I replied: “George, you may rely on me. I am going to see this thing through at all costs, even if I have to import the An- cient and Honorable Artillery of Bos- ton and Sousa’s Band to give it the ensemble. mail you to-day a batch of court scandals. You can distribute them in short fillers througn the next issue, Bernard Shaw and Chesterton are getting up a dinner in my honor. Full particulars next week. J. Bounder Ballingford, Must Back Up Mayor Ella Wilson RS. ELLA WILSON was elected Mayor of Hunnewell, Kansas. She has appointed Mrs. Rose Osborn Chief of Police, and proposes to clean up the town. Five men compose the City Council of Hunne- They are opposed to Mayor Wilson's inten- tions and propose to thwart them. They pro- pose to run the town without regard for the Mayor or her legal Powers. The Mayor has the law behind her and has, be- sides, good support from the voters who elected her. She ought to win. The presumption is that cities that elect woman Mayors want woman Mayors and will back them up Hunnewell, having clected Mrs. Wilson, is bound to support her in the exercise of her lawful powers. If it doesn’t it will be a dis- graced city. Mayor Witson promises to be a means of considerable and much needed edu- cation to Hunnewell, Proper tout I you want to make a living you have to work for it, while if you want to get rich you must go about it in some other way.