Life — January 14, 1915 — page 32: what you’re looking at

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76 ‘LTP E- From Our Readers The Belgian Cure Prescribed for Us Ettox Lire: You actually have accomplished the impossible; you actually beat weekly your own record in slandering a great nation and offending millions of people in this country, Your vituperous out- pourings, your villainous, deliberate lies, your awful cartoons, are so vile language cannot express it! It is, of course, impossible to argue with a man of your type. It is unbe- lievable that there is another human being quite so 'ow and foul to the core as to be compared with you, You are not human any more. One almost re- fuses to believe that you are sane; maybe you are a raving maniac who should be confined in an asylum, I wonder what nation has to suffer the race of counting you as one of its members? I hope it is not America. It is useless, of course, to remind you of the admonition of our President to observe strict neutrality. Such lofty feelings and such beautiful expressions are wasted on your kind and entirely beyond you. Hanging would be too good for you; it would not condone for the heart-pains your filthy writings have caused to millions of American citizens until they learned to ignore them as unworthy of consideration. If you still must be considered sane and responsible for your. deeds, only one punishment might be fairly adequate and penetrate your skin. A good beating, administered judiciously onée a weck: not cnough to kill you outright, but sufficiently penetrat- ing the hide to prevent sitting down until repetition comes around the next week, That cure might help, and let us. Pray somebody With the will administer utmost contempt, Eexsr Lucuter. San Francisco. Cat.. November 28, 1914. Another Point of View Dear Lire: T enclose one dollar for the Belgians. to help give them a Thanksgiving Day. Speaking of thanks and giving, Live. don't you think it would be a good idea to set apart a day for the Almighty to A sort of “day of atone- for us to logue the reasons why God should give thanks at the way things have been running here below. Don't you think that our Thanksgiving Day is too one-sided? What has God to be thankful for this year? Is it that the so-called civilized ment nations of Europe have ceased squeezing the life-blood out of their taxpaying sub- jects to pay for armies and battleships. and now are feeding these people to limb-shattering, death-dealing machines of slaughter? Is it that a supposedly cultured and truth-loving people, who have done so much to cure sickness and prevent death in bygone years, now are plundering little Belgium, killing off thou- sands of her men and women, mutilating her helpless little children, driving off her cattle, cating her supplies, destroying her crops, burning her homes, and finally leaving a few millions of adults and adolescents to starve? The most He can be thankful for, perhaps, is that the murders in little Belgium can not, will not, exceed seven million in number—for lack of material! Is the Almighty-joyously thankful that a Kaiser bas shed some crocodile tears over the burning of the saintly, pricst- making city of Louvain and the bom- barding of the priceless Rheims Cathe- dral? Perhaps He is thankful Rome has been spared her immortality and that the canals of Venice still run water— not blood. Almighty God has doubtless noticed that in America the people recently elected many undesirables to high office. Perhaps He has cause for thanks Mr. Lorimer was not running for the Senate, and that William II had re- frained from conferring an Jron Cross on J. Bruce Ismay for “chivalrous con- duct in a marine disaster”. If the Lord God had a Thanksgiving Day, like we had, it is possible He would not be so sweepingly thankful as PROFESSOR SMITH REMOVES MIS MAT, were our pulpit orators, cditors and toastmasters on November 26th. If He raised His voice it might be to tell us that He is not mocked without drawing forth His wrath. Sincerely yours, Brian Boru Dunne. Santa Fé, N. M., December 1, 1914. One of Many Eprtox oF Lire, Dear Sir: Am enclosing a news-item clipping. Will you kindly read it? Will you also take notice that while this poor, unfortunate girl suffered a whole week before she died, she had been sick only a day before the “ injec- tors” got in their work, and then she immediately and steadily got worse? What do you think of this? Do you think it possible that a cat bite to-day could turn into hydrophobia one year hence? In spite of the learned doctors, I do not believe that any poison could be taken into the blood-circulating sys- tem without making itself manifest inside of a year, if it ever was going to do so. Have I another guess? Yours truly, Jawes B. Fowtrr, Sprincricip, Mass., November 16, 1914. Other accounts of death from the injection of serums for the cure of hydrophobia are reaching us in pro- fusion. Hydrophobia itself is some- thing of a myth. Dog-trainers have never seen a Case. But there is no myth about the re- sults of the serum. COLLAR AND TIE PREPARATORY TO GETTING SHAVED AND THEN HAS ONE OF HIS FREQUENT ATTACKS OF ABSENT-MINDEDNESS comichooks.gom