Life — January 28, 1915 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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A pleasant, evening we had, Dick and I. Not for the wealth of the Indies would I exchange the three best things I have—my old friend Dick, my good dog Prince and reliable Old Overholt Rye “Same for 100 years” The friend of our forefathers J |] and still the friend of men who appreciate a oie, delightful mre whiskey. Aged in the w ttled in eae ae A. Overholt & Co., Pittsburgh, Pa, When Prudence Knits BE she dancing, resting, flitting, Dainty Prue is ever knitting— Knitting, knitting, constantly. In the house or on the highway, In the town or rural byway, Openly, or in a sly way, Click her needles merrily. Be she motoring or shopping, Not a stitch or needle dropping, Still she knits and knits away. When she’s laughing, when she’s grieving, Out a-calling or receiving, Knits she on past all believing From the break to set of day. Mufflers grow thro’ lengthy sermons. For the Belgians, French and Germans; Sweaters, waistcoats, shirts galore; Wristlet, sock and woolly mitten— Every minute she can fit in Is devoted to her knittin’ For the needy man of war. Whence it is, tho’ I adore her As old Petrarch loved his Laura, I don't dare to mention it, Lest my soft interrogation, Voicing ardent aspiration For a lifelong conjugation, Shall elicit only “KNIT!” John Kendrick Bangs. CRAWForD: What prompted him to buy a car? CransHaw: He says his wife is afraid to ride in one. ge Ll hal pial oh 137 A Great Problem Solved at Last F the bankers can raise a sum ag- gregating one hundred and thirty- five million dollars in order to relieve distressed cotton-growers, why cannot the same thing be done for the city poor? The only difference between the cotton-growers and the mass of people in large cities who cannot sup- port themselves is that the former are temporarily poor and the latter are regularly—or shall we say perma- nently ?—poor. This seems, however, to be an im- portant difference. The cotton-grow- ers, say the bankers, are only tempo- rarily embarrassed. We are lending them money only to tide them over. But we couldn't let the poor have it, don’t you know, because we might never get it back. Yet here another point presents itself. Bankers often lend money which they never expect to get back. They lend it to governments to make war, and to cities for various purposes. There must be some other reason, therefore, why they don't like to lend it to the poor. The reason is, of course, that the poor do not pay any interest. 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When they have done this they will soon establish a reputation. Thus they will be able to borrow more money to pay more interest. Nations have demonstrated that they can do this—why not the poor? Thus poverty, that fertile subject for the pens of sociologists, political economists, seers and reformers, will at last be abolished. The wonder is that nobody has ever thought of. this before.