Life — February 15, 1917 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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LTE E Advertisements You Have Never Seen LOVERS VOW UMBRELLA- “Kojre Moke Be Brics> | An Important Matter ET another physician says: Fact is, if only needed operations were performed, surgeons would starve, or have to seck pther fields of work, Considering the danger and expense of operations would it not be wise to pension all surgeons, young and old? They are good men and honest. But some of the rest of us are good men and honest. Why not give us all a chance? Mending Leaks HERE are, in all likelihood, only two possible ways in which leaks from Washington to Wall Street of government secrets can be prevented. Both methods are exceedingly simple. The first is: Abolish Wall Street. The second is: Abolish secrecy. Now, nu- merous arguments can be advanced in behalf of the first proposition. If we + abolish Wall Street we should simul- taneously and beneficently abolish Thomas W. Lawson, stock brokers, a few thousand pikers, champagne as a tipple for the latter, two or three QNCE WILL BE SUFFICIENT JUGGERNAUT POWER-WASHER. “Short Shrift For Shirts ~ suicides a year, professional tipsters, bucket shops and a goodly slice of the quadrennial campaign funds, But despite these advantages, it is unlikely that Wall Street will be abolished, at least for the present. It might then be advisable to abolish secrecy at Wash- ington. It is certainly the case that we need the open door in Washington public offices at least as much as in China. Especially in diplomacy is se- crecy highly undesirable. Europe “practiced secret diplomacy, including secret treaties and secret notes—and see Europe. It might be an encourage- + ment to true statesmanship if a rule were made that a copy of all letters on official stationery and on official busi- ness be filed for public inspection within twenty-four hours of their transmission. Our statesmen, eminent and otherwise, might even be glad of an opportunity to dictate their letters in Wit JONEOSI STOCKINGS Sere in Be one war ra | public hearing, by this additional de- vice reducing secrecy probably to a minimum, Wall Street, in such a State of affairs, could then suffer fluctua- tions of the market only on rumors that the chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission had suddenly dyed his whiskers, or that J. Horace Vanderver, the well-known banker, was now a happy grandfather. Was It More Than a Show? HE first thing after reading Presi- dent Wilson's address to the na- tions is to admit that as an address it is a good job and very interesting reading. The next thing is to try to determine whether Mr, Wilson has accomplished anything more than an address. To do that as well as he does it—to write a discourse as well as he sometimes writes it—is in itself so considerable an exploit that we are apt to forget that it is not enough. rf an orator to speak well, for a writer to write well, for a preacher to preach well, is sufficient, but you don’t measure a doc- tor nor a soldier by his literary gifts, nor a President. Was it something more than enter- tainment that, on January 22nd, Mr, Wilson gave the world? comicbooks.com