Life — July 12, 1917 — page 22: what you’re looking at

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Sam; BETTER NOT TOUCH IT, COLUMBIA, IF MADE IN GERMANY Method ni Buds greatest danger in hysteria is not the overdoing of a thing, but the doing of it in the wrong way. It is decidedly ill-imagined, for instance, that one should spoil a good lawn to make a poor potato patch; yet that is pre- cisely the event to which a prevalent hysteria is leading many a patriotic citizen. A man with experience in raising potatoes is likely to conclude that the most valuable yield from back yard and front lawn potato patches will be exercise. Obviously, the place to raise potatoes is on the farm; and surely there is enough legitimate farm territory in this expansive country to raise enough potatoes for all man- kind. If there is any doubt about this in anybody's mind, let him consider the fact that Germany in 10915, with her enormous quota of men in the trenches and with a land area approximately equal to the state of Texas, produced four times as many potatoes as the entire United States. The figures for Germany’s production of potatoes in normal times are so large as to astound one. It would be a desir- able bit of education for any man to look those figures up, and then compare them with our own, If we must turn tennis courts, front lawns and back yards into potato patches to equal Germany’s production of po- tatoes, we are inefficient indeed. If it is impossible, or even difficult, for our farmers to equal Germany's record in this respect through any economical or social condition, then this young and God-gifted democracy needs a doctor. Obstacles OOPE Why has the great American novel never been written? Weaster: Because, when an American possesses suf- ficient comprehension of American life and the necessary facility of expression to write such a novel, he becomes a promoter or goes into politics. Metamorphosis INDSHIP, I have dri F*! fair, Sought you, sought you ev'rywhere, Brought you all the gathered flowers From the garden of my hours; Flung them down before your Ardent for your joy and grace. Do you live or does your flight Follow still the glow-worm’s light O'er the marshes of the world, Where the Ere your eyes shone clear above You had always changed to love! iverett, med you sions sleep, mist-furled? Leolyn Louise CROW companies he does not keep. prince is known by the Hats Off to a Woman Lawyer T was a great achievement to find the body of Ruth Cruger. A persistent woman lawyer did it, after the police had muddled the job, failed in their duty and let the murderer slip through their fingers. y he trusted to put the responsi- bility for the police failure where it belongs, and to make it duly heavy te bear. Meanwhile, we all take off our hats to Mrs. Grace Humiston. nis coronat opus. She has vindicated the good name of a murdered girl, We are all her debtors. HIS is a funny world. ‘ollowing the flag” means a whole lot of different things to different people. To some it means enlist; to others it means sticking it on the front of their automobile radiators. SOME HORRORS OF WAR