Life — April 27, 1916 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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Things You Shrink from Knowing E spend about $70,000,000 more a year for automobile tires than we do for the army. We spend almost as much for other running expenses. The total cost of running auto- mobiles in this country plus the cost of the new cars is $1,180,000,- 000 a year, about seven times the cost of the army and navy com- bined. The number of licensed chauf- feurs in the state of New York last year was 74,159, or more than twice the strength of the mobile NOTHING DOING army in the entire United States. All the effective militia plus the He Says Things About Our Army Rampageous Cohalan mobile army can be seated in the Yale bowl. ENATOR WORKS of California in Now Cohalan Attacks the Charities a recent speech said: Inquiry: He Attributes It to “An . Anti-Catholic Campaign.” What we need first of all is to —Headline in the World. ELSHAZZAR saw the writing on make the army more efficient and the HAT is th ith the Si sheswall! position of & private soldier ‘more AAS the matter Wilh the Sinn «Tell Daniel to write a sharp note respectable and respected. This can Fein judge? He seems to see, ‘ ice. woke i see sit reply,” he said. best be done by enlisting worthy everything black, and conspiracies in entch Medes Gud. Persians, armed young me, and inot erteninals and the most humane enterprises. He derclicis as is very generally done charged at the Knights of Columbus = breakfast that the real purpose of the We suppose Senator Works refers Strong Commission's investigation was to the regular army, and not to the “to break down institutions and do militia. But what he says is news 1° away with the work the Catholic us, Tt Wwe are engaged “gencra'y "i Church has been doing to train chil- the process of enlisting criminals and dren.” derelicts, then the inference is plain ee hs of that this must be the material of which He an opinion wortly ofa man who practices to league Ireland with our army is composed. = Fie upon you, Senator Works! You Germany to crush England, The com- mission is no more anti-Catholic than know better than that. Our army is a good army—so far as it goes. Our Ireland is anti-British in the war; not soldiers are the best fighting material so much, indeed, by a good deal. in the world. The trouble with our army is that it is managed, or =mis- Synonymous managed, by a lot of half-baked civil- é ians who don't know their business. A POLITE and elderly and absent- minded man whose wife was both Why slander a perfectly good army " ; just because it is too small and lacks ‘#!kative and high-tempered, and who had just installed a hot-air furnace in equipment? + his home, was accosted by a neighbor woman: ROST: Davis says he suffers be- “How is the hot air, Mr. Jones?” cause he has the heart of a woman, “She is very well, I. thank you, Sxow: That's tough, ma’am,” said Mr. Jones. HIS BEAT comicbooks.com