Life — December 11, 1913 — page 33: what you’re looking at

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“LIFE: 1085 The Age of Debt EASSURANCES of a happy rate of progress arrive via Washington. Someone down R there has figured out that the debts of the nations of the earth aggregate forty-two billions of dollars. We can gloat over the splendid magnitude of this figure without even trying to comprehend it fully, National debts have increased twenty per cent. in t decade and doubled in the last four decades. Isn't that bully? It shows that our | a thorough success. We have proved that the only way to get things, big things, “BLUE. RIDGE” done is to borrow money from someone before doing them. We have proved that, no matter Trae how high taxes may be, they should never be high enough to pay as we go or pay what we owe. As one debt casily leads to another, this enables national debts to enjoy a good, ¢ fs. Unter diect from factory healthy increase at all times. The “age of debt” is by no means a too complimentary fuse guaranteed low rf money Feerain by Certed Checks P.O Kat Gress Money Onder, We wil alow you Tew Weeks’ Pree Triatt if chevt characterization of contemporary life. Bring on your bond issues! Sern represented: retare af cur expense. ‘pecia prices to thene who Tr Sete ee monthiy payment: Caniopwe deecrbiag chess of al sys | ‘ 0.4. se women er opes toners, Sead Oe BLUE RIDGE RED CEDAR co. dept, Reldsvitte, N.C. : SS ‘And 1654-56 Long Beach Ave. ‘les, Cal, = $16.°—TWO WEEKS’ FREE TRIAL Protect your fury and wootens sest no dust. This highly ornamental Paradoxical Humour We in England have fallen into a cer- tain groove of humour of late, the bumour of paradox. The formula which | O O RA S Tes at the base of our present output of DO YOUR BRAIN humour is the formula, “ Whatever is, TERFERE is wrong”. The method has been over- ° organised, and the result is that humour G s. The ¢ of sch humour is the saying of the humourist that he went about the world with one dread con- stantly hanging over him—“the dread ‘ of not being misunderstood”. I would f Ts it trae— not for a moment deny the quality of such humour, but it grows vapid and monotonous. It is painful to observe —that golf and brains don’t assimilate? Pitta ae deta at Shree ee —that golf is a strictly physical and not at all a mental things beautiful and emotional which he SEXETEISE is often well equipped to produce, with —that the time you spend in practice is absolutely wasted? all the charm of freshness and indiscre- z : . tion, turn aside to smart writing of a —that the professional and the young lad just taking up cynical type, because he cannot bear to golf play essentially the same sort of game? be thought immature. He wants to see the effect of his cleverness, and the envious smile of the slower-witted is dearer to him than the secret kindling of a sympathetic mind. Real tumour is a broader and a deeper thing, and it can W i of y? hardly be attained until a man has had Marshall hitlatch says: Yes! some acquaintance with the larger world ; and that very experience, in natures that are emotional rather than patient, often tends to extinguish hum a the Maeda Ie cell hee «Mind vs, Muscle in Gol” in the December Dress & Vanity Falr is toozesdand "sarictie’a’ budtacss*tovaiford the first of an epoch-making series of practical discussions of golf, amusement. From“ At Large”, by A. C. Benson. —and that their careless swing is fundamentally more effec- tive than the system you have so carefully studied out? 25c. a copy Three dollars a year 449 Fourth Ave., N.Y. The Listener: po you PLAY BY EAR . ! you CHUMP, THIS IS A MoUTH- oxcan!” comicbooks.com