Life — July 22, 1915 — page 32: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

THE RECRUITING SERGEANT According to Their Light “T have not the least doubt that both the elder and the younger Rockefeller are sincerely desirous of doing the right thing according to their light, and if they could find out what the right thing really is.""—Frederick M, Davenport, writing in the Outlook about the Colo- rado situation, ERHAPS the Messrs, Rockefeller will be grateful for this apologetic offering which puts them in the same moral class with everybody else. The annoying thing to society at large, however, is that they have not been able to get a better light. Considering the great cultural ad- vantages they have had and the immense amount of illu- minating oil under their control, the light they displayed in Colorado was disappointingly dim. Our Dream A SMUG assumption is abroad in the land. It lurks in prayers, patriotic addresses and war talk. Only the most impious of our citizens are immune from its ravages. It causes the heart to swell and the soul to shrivel, Listen for it. It runs something like this: We, the people of the United States, are the only unselfish, truly righteous people left on earth. God is disgusted with Europe and is going to transfer all His affections to us and place all His hopes for the ultimate redemption BASEBALL TERM of mankind in our efforts, “THE DELAYED STEAL”