Life — January 27, 1916 — page 43: what you’re looking at

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Shall Professors Form a Union? Headline in the Nation 'O be successful, all unions must be founded on a necessity. It scems to us, therefore, that the profes- sors should, by all means, have a union, for how can we get along with- out them? Without professors we would never know whether we were educated or not. There would be no safe cri- terion, Now, when any professor who has had us under his personal charge for a number of years, tells us that we are educated, we know that we are not. a valuable contribution to the state and to our own knowledge. It is true that the knowledge that we are not educated does not always come to us until sometime afterwards. But that does not make it any less or im- portant or valuable. Professors are highly useful, because they place us early in life in possession of a body of useless facts which do not rise up later on to hamper us. Having once become acquainted with them, (even if the acquaintance be but slight), we get to know them well enough to avoid them in the future. That makes a great difference to all of us, and the professors ought to get the credit. This, we regret to say, is pot always the case. Professors are often accused of conveying useful in- formation, That is one of the burdens that they have to bear. Every one of us is more or less misunderstood, The professors are no exception, Without them we should go on, perhaps, all our lives learning useless things, firmly believing, for example, that the study of philosophy is important, that sociol- ogy is an asset to the plain people, that political economy is beneficial to some- body and that theology helps us to know God. Think of what a handicap that would be to a person of ordinary in- telligence. The professors ought to be protected. They ought to form a union in defense of their inalicnable tights to provide our youth early enough in life with all the useless in- formation there is, in order that there- after they may be free to do things that are worth while. E are apt to feel left out of all Progress because we are not in the war, Bot no! A headline reads: WORLD LOOKS TO AMERICA HERE ALONE MOTOR CAR DESIGN HAS PROGRESSED Old logs are burnin’ on the hearth, Old friends are gathered ‘round, Old pipes a-glow —forget the snow That's coverin’ the ground. Each puff of VELVET. brings a breath Of sunny skies and field: Thar’s summer sunshine in the warmth That frogrant VELVET yields. The latch- fesch 's always hangin’ out For good friends, old an’ new. Come on inside, my hearth is wide, Tee saved @ place for you. , for E all want a cool smoke. WELVET is cool. Most of us want a mild to- bacco. VELVET is the mildest of pi tobaccos, being the choicest Kaw Burley leaf. But VELVET'S mildness is not of the “milk and water” kind. VELVET is noted for its full-bodied qualities. And every smoker can appreciate VELVET'S age-mellowed smooth- ness, the result of two years’ maturing—Na- ture’s own way. Liggatte Myers Tabacco Co. 10c Tins 5c Metal-lined Bags One Pound Glass Humidors comicbooks.com