Life — June 6, 1912 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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ce a Life’s Fresh Air Fund eof torn, T sit Are Puxo has bi cart, Im that time it has expended $133.3 jortnight im the country to 33.7. phorted entirely by b @ acknowledged im th Shall Women Go ? A\ WRITER in the London Times comes forward with 4 suggestion that women be abolished,“ Women, abt, have had their uses in the past certain that they will be indispensable in the no ds but is it quite future This is an alluring thought, but we firmly believe that If there were no women, we should there nt is nothing more not all be in debt and living be would be no love stories written, and, therefore, no mag- Besides, there would be nothing to look at but ond our incomes ; azines scenery. We suggest that if the thing is going to be done at all, “"twere well it were done quickl. There should be noth- ing gradual about it. We can imagine nothing more har- rowing than a long drawn out scene over the last woman. The Church and the Social Evil ANE ADDAMS sa and the church tow and still is eminently Jane Addams is right in saying that the church has never taken any active interest in any reform measure that would be of practical benefit to the human race. But when she states that the church is irreligious—what does she mean To be religious is not necessarily to be of practical benefit. Miss Addams is not especially religious, but she is of great benefit. We do not think that the church is irreligious; we should say that, so far as society is con- cerned, it is simply irresponsible. It deals with unknown quantities; the known quantities are apparently too trivial to notice, On the other hand, offshoots of the church, such as the Y. M. C. A. and certain mission societies, have in some cases done good work toward the amelioration of society, not, perhaps, measured so much by results as by the ad- they have been able to give to the unfortunates. s that the attitude of both soci rd the social evil ha irreligious.” verti N EW YORKER (at country hotel) : Anybody here that plays poker? Cuerk: Plenty of ’em—if you don’t mind lending ’em a dollar or two to start with, The Terrors of the Law GREAT many people who decry our present law ar who state that it is so frightfully obsolete, ‘so th oughly asinine, so irredeemably stupid, and so. hopeless! incumbered with They do not realize that this law of ours, with its twen thousand new statutes on the books each year, is one wur greatest blessings, Suppose, for example, that we had an intelligent set dead wood, are much too pessimist laws. Suppose that when we employed a lawyer it wou r him to explain to us in five minutes t! be possible merits of the case. Suppose we settled the whole matt within a few days. What would happen We should all be so pleased with the result that goit to law would be an intellectual pastime As the case stands at present, however, the complica tions the law a person eve gets mixed up in it any more than he would permit him self to be closeted with a den of thieves. He knows in the first place that it probably would be impossible to find « what the truth about his case is. In the next place he knows that it might be dragged mg for years in the courts before a decision was reached. And in the third place he knows that he will be eventually shorn of what ever money he might have started out with. In fact, the law has such terrors for the average human being that it has a tendency to keep us all straight. The most that we ask is that we shall never have to consult a lawyer and never have to show our face in the court room. The penalty for doing this is so great that, upon general pr ciples, it really pays to be virtuous. re so great that no sane NDTHRIFTS rush in where rich men fear to tread. THE MINUTES OF THE LAST MEETING comicbooks.com