Life — January 7, 1915 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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Fie, Ladies! T last we appear to have a de- cided opinion from the suffra- gette headquarters about war-relief measures, Mrs. John Rogers, Jr, and Mrs. John W. Brannan, members of the Woman's Political Union, as reported by the Evening Post, a more or less suffrage organ, don’t believe in help- ing the war sufferers. Mrs, Brannan says that nations in declaring war “count upon the char- ity of humane committees”, The money thus saved is turned into kill- ing-machines—according to this astute lady. Mrs. Rogers is even more emphatic. She is, of course, as all suffragettes are, full of absurd sympathy. But she does not believe in letting it get the best of one. She says: “Just because Iam so full of sympathy for the starv- ing Belgians and wounded soldiers and so anxious to help them, I am not giving a cent or an old garment to the Red Cross and the Belgian Relief Funds.” Be full of sympathy for Belgium, but avoid doing anything. You are helping the Belgian people most by letting them starve. But why stop there, suffragette ladies? Why not go over to Belgium and help the Germans strip the starv- ing Belgians still further? If not giving a cent or an old garment to a starving Belgian is, according to your doctrine, really helping him, why not strip off what clothes he may have left? It's a poor rule that isn’t loyal to its own finish. Fired 'HE critics of President Wil- son’s withdrawal of the troops from Mexico remind us the demanded salute which was to wipe out the insult to the flag has never been fired. True enough, but Mr. Huerta, who refused to fire the salute, was fired. O BEING, except a human being, has ever been proved to be insincere, “LIFE * Overhopefulness of Bouck I's hard to keep up with Bouck White, but it seems he’s gone and said something unsuitable about mar- riage. Why talz unsuitably about marriage? It is an excellent expedient. If it pinches too tight, enough will always be done without saying to loosen it up. The law cannot he made perfect. It can either be kept or broken. Mar- riage cannot be made universally bene- ficent. It can either be kept or broken. Law as we have it is the best we can do, and marriage as we have it is the best we can do. We can’t abolish either, and we can’t improve cither but a little, The best we can do is to try to improve people so that they may endure marriage and law. Machine-age Monsters READNOUGHTS, submarines, Zeppelins and forty-two-centi- meter siege-guns will doubtless in ages to come be reproduced in papier-maché and plaster and set up in museums as examples of the extraordinary and in- credible monsters that were produced and roamed the sea and earth and sky in the wonderful Machine Age. The ichthyosauruses and brontosaurs and pterodactyls have nothing to speak MISCAST MUMMERS DREW AS RIP VAN WINKLE JouN a, RHEIMS THE CATHEDRAL REMODELED of on the strange and destructive creatures, so huge, so predatory, that we, at present, are turning loose on the world. Creation is going through another age of monsters, produced like those of the geological eras by the energy of competition and the great life-principle, doing its work in forges and laboratories, instead of in forests and swamps, E. S. M. Two Tremendous Trumphs M* FRANCIS GRIERSON is authority for the state- ment that Modern Theosophy and Christian Science have no farther to go, because each of them “has swept over all obstructions, all attacks and oppositions, and lives «to-day more vigorously than ever, while the minor forces of opposi- tion have waned and are already fading memories”, A truth of such importance and such universality should be given as wide a circulation as possible. Otherwise there might be some of us so heedless of the facts as to imagine that many people, per- haps even millions, still remain to be converted to the indisputable tenets of these two mutually ir- reconcilable doctrines. comichooks.