Life — June 6, 1912 — page 34: what you’re looking at

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We Are Constantly in Receipt of Important Letters Which Are Too Long for Our Limited Space. Brevity is Absolutely Essential to Publication Death Traps Galore » THe Eptror oF Lire: Drak Six: In your comment on the itanic you hope we will take it duly to heart. But we won't. Why should we? The Iroquois disaster did not put life All the fuss over that did not make the girl workers in New York factories safer from fire, and none of these horrors built lifeboat for the Titanic. You ask, What next That's casy. Every one of the palatial hotels in New York is a death trap. We all know it. Imagine a fire in the kitchen, with enough costly decorations Preservers on the Slocus to turn the hotal into a furnace. Not one-third of the guests could escape The elevator and stairway equipment is far less adequate than was the lifeboat provision on the Titanic, And for the same reason palm gardens, cafés, ete., leave no room for stairs. But what is the use of fussing? Let us take one thing at a time—the Iroquois, the Slocum, the factory, the Titanic, and next Very truly yours, Cutxtox C. CLarke ALTADENA, CALIF, May §, 1912. One on Us! Eorrors of Lire Gextiemes : Upon rising to close the mass meeting which took place in Car negie Hall at the end of the suffrage pa- rade, Mrs. Blatch read the announce- ment issued in all the morning papers of the parade’s intended proceedin; This schedule was as follows: “ The parade will t from Washington Square at 5 o'clock and reach Carnegie Hall at 6. The mecting in Carnegie Hall will begin at 7 and close at 8. “ This,” she said, “ is what we announced that our parade would do, and I will now tell what it did. At 5 o'clock precisely our first band struck up and the parade wheeled into Fifth Avenue. At 6 o'clock precisely the first banner bearers as- cended the steps of Carnegie Hall. At 7 o'clock precisely the hall was filled and the meeting began, and as the clock strikes 8 I call upon Dr. Shaw to close i” May I call respectfully to your atten- tion the fact that this achievement, or rather these achievements, of 19,000 untrained marchers and their marshals must argue the total inability of women to stand together, co-operate, achieve, command and execute. It must show this, for if it does not, why, then it shows the exact opposite, and that would never do. The writer of this clear and logical letter waited one and one-half hours for the Grant parade, and when it came even the officers chewed gum. This and the many other parades like it prove the superior ability of man to co operate, achieve, command and exceute after many hundreds of years of unhin- dered practise. Kindly bring these ob- vious facts out editorially, Respectfully, Jutierre Rocers, New York, May 9, 1912. “Help! Help!” To tHe Epttor or Lire: Perhaps it is my own fault, but I can't help it, and I can't believe that I am the only one who suffers. Since every- hody is always reading something nowa- days and since so little that one reads is worth dallying over, one acquires the habit of rushing along the lines at a break-eye speed. Every now and then one stubs his optic over a snag, gets an awful spill, picks himself up and goes back over the obstacle. Of all snags in the cye-path the un- usual abbreviation is the worst. When I find that the gentleman whose automo bile ran over the child was the Bus. Mgr. of the L. M. N. Mfg. Co., before I can stop I have mentally read it as th “buss mugger of the ell em en m’oof co.” It is like trying to read one ¢ those Slavic names like Przestrzelsz Before one can set his brake he hb made a noise like a tire running along strand of barbed wire. These are casual accidents, howe, What I wish to protest against is «) telephone book. Of course, it is bulky already as a sheaf of wheat, a consulting it is like ransacking a fami Bible, but it really ought to be made little larger so that one need not | subjected to the eye-strain and mer contortion of trying to fathom the breviations. While innocently look for the address of a friend or a doc one must run the ntlet of the appalling consonants. — Unconscious! one tries to pronounce them, and sen paralysis ensues. 1 e just had to read of “ Udikr,” “Pimbr,” a “Win Mir a “Cpt Clore,” a “Grd Nese,’ . Thewtr,” “ Pntrs Spls,” a“ Jwlr," a “Art Dec & Frnshng Co." a “ Fdry a firm of “Frn Murs of Mamth, a hr Dyr,” a man who keep a “Bdg Stbl in) Sprng Lak,” and another who is a“ Srvyr.” But when i comes to a “ Tang Frne Wk,” I am co: pelled to take my pen in hand and writ: a piece to your paper about it What is one to do when his eyes an his palate are cleft by allusions 1 “Mfrs Brshs in Wmsbrdge,” or to a dealer in “Lds Nkwr at Fkin Furn’ I find that I myself am living at no less a place than “ Bdfrd His.” My business is not mentioned. It would probably be “ Plwrgt.” Rureer Hvenrs Beoroxo Hitis, N.Y. ee z= hat Se = ye “JOUN HENRY, YOU LEAVE THAT BULL ALONE. D'VYE HEAR ME?” h omme: as aul that, chart Ti and it Dist —_ comicbooks.com