Life — August 17, 1911 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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A Victim of Sanity “Love for our native land is di The man with listless whiskers And sadly shook his doleful head he while he grumbled. “No more we see the patriot Who would dare sword and shell and shot The olden spirit now is not,” He sourly mumbled. “IT shudder often when I think Of how we've Iet ideals sink, We're trembling right now on the brink Of dissolution ! Ah, friends, I often almost weep, And many nights I cannot sleep For thinking how we fail to keep The Constitution! “There is no fecling any more That sends a thrill from shore to shore— The Lanner our forefathers bore— We used to cheer it. But now with patriotism dead,” Again he shook his doleful head, “Into what silent void has sped Our ancient spirit? —— — | Fire Fighting and Telephoning The old flag to the breeze was flung Both Need Team Work, Modern Tools And patriot songs were given tongue By loyal people ; heb oo ett sia, and an Ever Ready Plant, Everywhere We kept it up from morn till night And bells were rung with main and Twenty men with twenty buckets can put out a The big tasks of today require not only team ‘small fire if each man works by himself. work but also modern tools and a vast system From every steeple. istributi If twenty men form a line and pass the buckets of supply and distribution. “But now our country love is dead,” from hand to hand, they can put out a larger fire. The Bell telephone system is an example of The man with listless whiskers said But the same twenty men on the brakes of a co-operation between 75,000 stockholders, While bitter tears he freely shed. “hand tub’ can force a continuous stream of 120,000 employees and six million subscribers, I tied a feeler. |water through a pipe so fast that the bucket “Wha . . 4 ‘ < “ But to tea vork is added ~to-d: a ee ee ae eet Srey, brigade seems futile by comparison. Years of ime and hundreds of milione of money Why does this gl ith him abide?” “¢ .. he our ost at ‘i ve t tf d, “eof have been put into the tools of the trade ; into the sete A decene delee ‘The modern firefighter: has gone away: beyond building of a nation-wide network of lines; into fireworks dealer.” “ ” 5 R " the “hand tub.”” Mechanics build a steam fire 1 a ~ % ‘ 7 * + the training of men and the working out of meth- Chicago Post lengine, miners dig coal to {ced it, workmen build ods: The result is the Bell aysien Of today—a = reservoirs and lay pipes so that cach nozzleman union of men, money and machinery, to provide and engineer is worth a score of the old- universal telephone service for nincty million fashioned firefighters. people. | AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY AND ASSOCIATED COMPANIES Automobile Club Journal (Official Touring Medium of the West) SUBSCRIPTION $1.00 PER YEAR |One Policy Maps and Route Details | f a . Ss 4 all talks. No, suh. Dey says d dah, in every Issue West Indies English y says ‘ahn't’ for ‘a'n't? and ‘eahat? Complete and accurate touring data regarding The moot question as to why English ‘can't’ an’ such like doin’s. Yes, ___One System Universal Service any route to any plac m the ¥ ¢ . is spoke as she is has apparently been An’ you wan’ to know how come settled by a colored mammy of the old dey talk dat fool talk? Why, sub, when Bureau of Tours school. In a recent visit to the West de English done busted away f'um de baa errrrrererwremere Indies she accompanied her mistress, and Unahted States, day was so ‘shamed after returning regaled her envious dey'd evah belonged to us dat dey trahd neighbors with vivid accounts of her to get eben, and jes’ out'n spite dey ‘ ‘ travels. done change de pronouncement of de Chicago Automobile Club Journal “In dem. Wes’, Indies,” she remarked, whole ibarenger="Sundey Magazine. SUBSCRIPTION $1.00 PER YEAR “dey don’ talk Unahted States, No, 321 Plymouth Court Chicago, Ill. suh, dey don’ talks foreign an’ Tue world likes a good loser, particu- English. English, yes, suh, An’ dat larly if it gets some of his money. English, dat ain't de same as what we —Lippincott’s. 253 of the Chicago Automobile Club You can get a wealth of touring informatic unobtainable elsewhere by subscribing for th comicbooks.com