Life — February 17, 1916 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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ADVICE TO MOTORISTS EVER ATTEMPT TO KUN DOWN A MAN CARRYING A PLANK Sacrifice and Solidarity MERICA America i: wants world peace. coming to see clearly that this means world organization, America has not yet reached the will- ingness to make the necessary sacrifices organization for world and world peace. When the colonies were banded to- gether to form the United States, the larger and more prosperous colonies yielded much to the weaker. To-day Nevada wields as much power in the national Senate as New York with one hundred and eleven times Nevada's population. And so when the nations unite to form a world government, the large and prosperous nations must ex- pect to make some sacrifices. If we have an international Lower Chamber on the basis of porulation (or perhaps literate population), we must have an inter- national Upper Chamber on the basis of nationali Nor can we consistently move for a world government if we frame our tariffs and our immigration laws solely for our own ease and enrichment. It is an essential of our national govern- ment that persons and goods shall move freely among the states. It is equally an essential of international government that persons and goods shall move freely among the nations. We cannot have solidarity without some measure of sacrifice. America wants world peace. day she will gladly pay the price. Some OME girls can’t even wear an air of innocence conspicuous. without making it Efficient A TION at war, finding itself on the verge of bankruptcy, placed its affairs in the hands of an efficiency expert. The expert lost no time. He sold the diplomatic secrets to the newspapers. The plans of all the fortifications he sold to the enemy. Finally, he bet Lloyd§ ten billions that the war would be over in six months, and then went out and made peace at any price. “But honor!” faltered the nation, anxiously, “Honor,” replied the expert, briskly, “has nothing to do with efficiency,” and in proof of his position he pointed chequer with to an ex overflowing funds. Annual Report of the Society o| Trouble Makers N making this our annual report, your committee calls attention to the un- usual conditions prevailing during the past year. People generally have been so troubled with other things that they have made an unusual effort to be cheerful; the result is, strange as it may seem, that we have not been able to accomplish all that we had hoped. About two thousand people have been snubbed directly, Eighteen hundred and five have had their feelings injured. Owing to scandals set going and other insinuations made, either by intimation or otherwise, against their characters, nearly sixty people have been ruined. This is very gratifying. Four homes have been broken up, and cightcen careers blasted. Two hundred and four families have been obliged to move away from town. In carrying on our great work, both in town and in the suburbs, we have been impressed with the growing indifference of many to forms of trouble which used to make them suffer. This we believe is due to the fact that they have become callous. There was a time when if we spread a report that a man had run away with another man’s wife, it would have caused considerable annoyance ; now’ they rather like it. We have therefore to be careful to produce our effects. Any suggestions, from the writing of an anonymous letter to a method of conducting a new scandal, will always be welcome. Respectfully submitted, etc. CLORIOSA APARTMENTS, NO abuts AbmarteD. “TURN ABOUT 1S FAIR PLAY” comicbooks.com