Life — June 27, 1918 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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betray “WHERE ISS YOUR FL. wave IT!” “1 DON’T NEED TO.’ lieve that in the Russian soul there is a great and sound idea of hu brotherhood, and we have faith that in the fulness of time Russia will bring a great message to mankind. More- over, we want like anything to sce her propped up and making passes in at the Germans on the eastern front, but what to do for her, and how to give her first aid, is a poser. No doubt our government at Wash- ington has Russia under constant con- sideration, and employs persons to think about her who know what a soviet is, and have the benefit of the in- formation that comes from Mr, Fran- cis, and other advantages that the com- mon run of us lack. Perhaps it “3 to help out Russia that Mv. caker has kept General Wood at home. But for our part we are not going to move in this matter till the government does. So far as appears we have got our nds full, and all our ships and our Allies’ ships are busy, strengthening the line on the western front. There is where the war is now, and there, as we see it, the battle is being fought for all the world, including Russia. Who would be free are entitled to all the help they can get, but they must show ability to stand on their own hind legs. Russia is still on all fours, with Germans on her back. But if 1025 Germany is whipped in France and threatened at home, these riders will have to alight. To win the war is the first duty. That ‘lone all details will arrange them- RY FORD has as bad qualiti- cations to be a senator as one could ask. Henry must know that, and Mr. Wilson must know it. But he has excellent qualifications for carrying a difficult election in Michigan, and in the Senate he would be a backer of the administration in the war. That must be why Mr. Wilson has urged him to run. The great objection to his going to the Senate is not that he is not tech- nically qualified to be a national legis- lator, but that it would waste his time, which is very valuable. He is a great manufacturer, and needed at that job. It seems a pity to divert him from it. But, besides being a great manufac- turer, Henry Ford is a very consider- able Democrat, and it is that that makes him a follower of Mr. Wilson. He would be interesting anywhere. If he goes to the Senate he will be interest- ing there, and the Senate will be the more interesting for containing him All the same, Michigan ought to pro- duce a satisfactory senator who can be better spared from his job than Henry Ford. SSMAN KAHN of Cali- fornia says that Federal prohibi tion legislation at this time would bank- rupt California wine growers, and re- sult in loss of millions of dollars. True enough, no doubt, but a bad argument; for if the California wine poisons the country it ought to go. But the truth is that it is one of the safest drinks the country produces, and one of the most promising helps to temperance. The California wines should be saved because they are needed. It would be a crime to de- stroy them, comicbooks.com