Life — October 25, 1917 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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662 SE EE * Anecdotes of Great Men Herr Hearst URING a trial at the Gotham assizes, which took place in 1917, it appeared that Herr Hearst, the owner of several alien newspa- pers, was brought up for violation of taste and for inciting the populace in many subtle and ingenious ways to wrong their country; and it was charged against him that he em- ployed many brilliant men tb carry out his wishes. Giving judgment in the case by the imposition of a fine of thirty cents, which was all the court dared to impose, owing to the fact that the court’s daughter was employed on said papers, the learned judge observed pleasantly and jocularly that it was to be hoped that the evil practices of the defendant would now cease. “On the contrary,” replied that distinguished gentleman, “the Hearst is yet to come.” This celebrated repartee was long remembered in the annals of the court, and was widely copied by the Japanese and Mexican papers. My Lord McAdoo Does His Bit T being asked, in company with my Lord McAdoo, former Secretary of the Treasury, whether he preferred to be alone with Liberty or to be a Liberty Loan, he replied, “ A Liberty Loan is a loan with Liberty.” This famous remark was widely used at the time as a means to float the Liberty Loan which at that period was used to crush the submarines, the Liberty Loan being about the only commodity that could keep above water. Mr. Malone's Opinion of Himself UDLEY FIELD MALONE, right-hand man to the celebrated Doctor Wilson and at one time Collector of the Port of New York, was once asked what man took himself more seriously and was the most important in the whole country. t “I do, and am,” he replied proudly, waving in his hand a Suffrage banner, which, in anticipation of the question, he had provided himself with. This piece of repartee was, at the time, considered one of the most famous bon mots of the season. Mr, R. and His Little Friend I" is a well-known fact that Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, be- fore the war with Germany, was the first man in the American nation to call attention to the totally unprepared condition of that unhappy country. He did this, when he was President, by making certain of his fattest generals go on hikes, thereby nearly depriving them of their lives. Afterwards he sent his sons to war and would have gone himself; but he was kept out of doing this by certain others, who advised him that his presence on the other side of the water might awaken too much human enthusi- asm, whereas the war, if won at all, must be won by a cold- A GRANDFATHER'S FISH STORY TWENTY YEARS FROM NOW blooded aloofness. One day Mr. Roosevelt was walking along a road near Oyster Bay, when he met a little girl carrying a Teddy Bear. “Why do you carry that Teddy Bear now, my young friend,” asked Mr. Roosevelt, “when the fashion for Teddy Bears has gone out?” “Oh,” replied the little lass brightly, “I am doing it in AT ONE STROKE comicbooks Bay