Life — December 24, 1914 — page 30: what you’re looking at

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“LE TRESE: “They Say” (Recent Opinions, Epigrammatic or Otherwise, by Some of Our Wise and Near-Wise Men and Women) I is Belgium's own doing that has placed her in her present plight—Dr. Dernburg. Most persons believe that if a girl is rated at six dollars a week she earns at least three hundred dollars a year. But this is seldom the case. Such persons forget that ever-present factor of irregular work. This winter the problem of unemployment, of the man without a job, is becoming well known to Americans, but the problem as it affects woman workers every month of the year is less familiar. Not only do these women often lose their jobs en- tirely because of slack work, but also they must frequently work short time, only five or six hours a day, or three or four days a week, in the dull season.— Mrs. Irene Osgood Andrews, Assistant Secretary of the American Association for Labor Legislation. They tell us that Christianity has failed, but we can’t say that, as it has never been tried.—Right Rev. David H. Greer, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of New York. I know that we are short of scout cruisers, having only three. A proper number of scout cruisers is essential to the efficiency of the fleet. We are insufficiently supplied with aeroplanes and hydroplanes, which are so essential to modern warfare. We havea large number of sub- marines—not enough in proportion to our fleet—but it is stated that many of those of early types are not up to recent standards.. It is said that we have only +one torpedo to cach torpedo tube. I should be glad to know whether this is true or false. —Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts. Well, we started to have a navy, but we haven't got it. Each commander in the navy, out of pride, praises his own ship, but says that most of the rest are junk. —Congressman A, P. Gardner. I think Senator Lodge ought to read the bureau reports, which are always open to the public. I will be .more than glad to furnish Senator Lodge this information if he has not seen it in the current reports. We have been making progress, and the navy is in fine shape. —Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Na The world must learn that none can hurt a hair of the head of a German subject with impunity. —Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg. We have acted like children. We have had so much money available through taxation that we have not been obliged to consult the revenue side of the ledger. Now.. we are coming to the point where we must consult it. We must pursue the policy that other governments have found absolutely necessary in order to keep out of bankruptcy. —Ex-President William H. Taft. Here I watch penniless, homeless Belgians fleeing from their naked land. In your land of plenty there are mil- lions who would give if they knew.—Sir Gilbert Parker, the English novelist, in a cablegram to Cardinal Gibbons. I want it made plain that in dealing with gunmen actively plying their trade, it is right for the police to use their clubs, but that the use of clubs on law-abiding citizens will not be tolerated.—Mayor Mitchel. We want a more intellectual atmosphere among the stu- dents as an immediate essential for making Yale what it should be.—President Arthur T. Hadley of Yale. In this war time, staggered by horrors of which I dare not write in this letter, some of us perhaps are tempted to despair of human nature and to doubt the ruling of a just Providence. And then out of this blackness, this stifling miasma of wickedness and sorrow unutterable, the great deeds, the deeds of courage, of glory, the white nobility of men and women, rising like streams of light, flow toward heaven.—Robert Hichens, from Belgium. Our nation stands for peace, and it seems to me out- rageous that we should be running our powder factories and our gun works night and day to furnish means for carrying on the present war. —Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska. Charity is religious hypocrisy in its worst form.—Meyer London, New Socialist Congressman from New York, “ WATCHFUL WAITING”