Life — July 20, 1911 — page 32: what you’re looking at

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“ly SPE Much Truth In This From One Who Objects to LIFE’S Coronation Number and Tells Some of the Many Things the Matter With Us—Enthusiastic Mental Subscriber—Other Letters from Readers Tue Eprtor or Lire: Drax Sin—I have been looking through your Coronation Number. It seems to contain nothing but mockery of the ceremony with which the British people consecrate their Ruler to God. In other words, the American public, through one of its widely circulated peri- odicals, is made to sneer at the most sol- emn ceremony and the greatest rejoicing of the nation to which it owes its civil ization, its language, and its laws. part from the mere decency of the thing, are you Americans in a logical position to decry anything in connection with the crowning? True, there is a cer- tain luxury and display about it that may have no economic justification, but is it any worse than the liveried pomp and heavily gilded circumstance, so dear to the hearts of the very rich in the United States, the details of which are so lav- ishly supplied by your yellow press, and so cagerly swallowed by your democrati citizens? Is the crowding of the British people to the spectacle any more contemptible and servile than the frenzied attempts of the citizens of your great and demo- cratic republic to witness a fashionable ding? There is no record of any shwoman achieving an entrance into the Abbey through a “coal-hole,” in or- cer to witness the ceremony ! Several writers in the Coronation Number express their sympathy for the unfortunate British common people who pay the taxes that finance the display. Is their suffering any worse than that of the American workingman—aye, even the man of the salaried classes—who unrepresented, or misrepresented, in the government of the country, is exploited by trusts, and made to pay two or three s the value for the simplest necess ties of life? You sneer at the few noblemen who figure among the rulers of Britain, you ignore the fact that a large portion of the members of the British House of Commons, where lies the ultimate power, are ordinary laboring men, elected by their fellows. Can your democratic country show one such? Yeu prophecy that this will be the last coronation. I venture the opinion that the English monarchy will last longer than the present form of govern- ment in the United States. The rotten est tree is the first to fall! A truly rep- resentative parliament, fairly elected by the people, and headed by a sovereign whose power is nominal, will outlast a corporation-controlled congress, a sen- ate which harbors such men as Lorimer, and a president whose power for evil is far greater than that of the English King, “ First cast out the beam out of thine own eye, H, J. Mactray. Woxtv Orrice, Toronto, A Tribute Dear Lire: Inclosed find twenty-five cents, for which kindly send me one copy of the Travel Number, published recently. I have to give a toast next Tuesday night, so please send me Lire and save my life. Iam very anxious also to be- come a mental subscriber to Livre. Your influence, I am sure, aroused me and caused me to arise at 4.30 A.M. to write this, and I think a few more vibrations from Gee Ime Mit will cause me to part a few of my hard earned menta sto secure Lire. Or would you accept a glowing testi- monial to the good Lirz has done me, in lieu of the subliminal currency? If so, read this: Two years ago I was a school teacher and a nervous wreck. I was thin and worn, my hair was becoming scanty and gray, I suffered from protruding bones in the neck and at times I was so ner- vously exhausted that I could speak in a scream. I began reading Lirr now I feel like a new woman. I ave gained in weight and my figure has taken on the melting curves I desired, my hair is restored to its former rose ate glory and I am now able to crack a smile without breaking it. For all this Tam indebted to Lire, and I hope ever; suffering woman will profit by my expe- rience. Yours through life, (Miss) Mary L. Osnorx, Hittoy, N.Y. June 14, 1911 The Wail of the Medical Altruist Epitor o# Live; And it came to pass that a certain man went.out into the highway and sat himself in the shade of a tree and looked upon the city which he had just left. And as he gazed he raised his veice in aintive tones and thus he murmured “ Why is it, I wonder, that the zooph- ilists rage so furiously together and the unti-vivisectionists imagine vain things? Lo! We medical scientists are devoting our time and energy to reducing’the mor- tality of inkind and saving the lame, the halt, the maimed and the blind that they may deteriorate the physical and mental qualities of the human race, and the more decrepit and useless members of society we can save the prouder we becor Yet, these stiff-necked reformers decry us; call us all manner of hard ames and regard us in the light of fiends in human shape. Ah, woe is me! Do they not know that but for these experiments on the lower animals the from smallpox, diphthe other of the pleasing ills that flesh is heir to would decimate their numbers as they used to in the ancient days? And yet they abuse and would ill-treat us if they could. But,” said the sage, while a beatific smile spread over his countenance, “these people may storm and fume as much as they like, they will never get their little bills through so long as Uncle Flexner is on deck. Democattes Rives. In Japan To rue Eoivor or Lire: Dear Lire.—In quoting vaccination statistics in Japan, your correspondent appears to be without knowledge of actual conditions in this country. As a atter of fact, half the native practi- tioners are utterly worthless and “ vac- cination” by them constitutes no trial whatever of the system. Again, the squalor and crowding of the people makes the death rate from any com- municable disease very high. Lastly, the Japanese, like the Malays, have al- S succumbed to cruptive diseases in greater numbers than other races subject to the same conditions. Measles is fre- juently deadly among thers I am of the opinion that the only: re- liable returns on the subject of vace!na- tion among this people would be the fig- ures with regard to the Japanese army in Manchuria during the Russian War. incerely yours, “YoRanaMa.” Yoxanama, Javay, June 6, 1911. Aims to. For part comicbooks¥éom