Life — September 12, 1918 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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SEIZE THEM AND BURN THEM, SAM. Perhaps even that prospect will be talked over in the Reichstag at the gab fest in November, It is a pretty solemn topic. MBASSADOR PAGE has done well by us in London for more than five years, He has also done as well as he could by Great’ Britain, 1s been only a detail of doing well by us. He had a mind to quit year and a half azo, but he'd on be- cause the United States got into the war. Now he has resigned becau: he says. he is tired out. If that is so, he is tired out in a great and good cause, in which he has spent himself lavishly and to first-rate purpose We wish he might have held ont till the end of the war, and so, doubtless, which ‘LiPE® YOUSLL FIND SOMETHING does the President, who will have the dificult duty to pick someone to r A correspondent of the Samuel place him Evening Post recommends Mr Untermyer, and that reminds one of lawyers, and naturally of Mr. Root. Mr. Root is a Republican, but he very distinguished American, and h supported the administration heartily in the war, and is in a way a represent- ative of some millions of Republica voters and fighters who have done the He would realize admirably the same. old-time ideal of an ambessador to 1B and when it came to peace- making he would be rated, by all be- standards, as a handy man to sit in, He can do anythin well he puts his mind to, and of course if he went to London for us he would do us great credit All the same, since the war began fore-the-war the conception of what is wanted in American ambassador to London has undoubtedly changed a good deal. We 377 used to want a man who had an in- come of his own, and was light on his feet, and had winning ways and a gift of discourse and never ate with his knife. We wanted a man who would charm the top-layer of Great Britain— a top-layer that includes a large pro- portion of very well worth charming—but acceptable to all the layers and qualified to better relations, already good, between Great Britain and the United States. We still want such a man, if he can be found, but most of all now, in the thick of a war to make democracy safe, we want an acceptable sample democrat. The top- layer of Great Britain, except as it means the brains and character of the British Empire, is less imposing than it was—less impo: to the British. top-layer people z to us, and also The prestige of the as diminished. The British people, by and large, have fought the war, and to them will go the new am- bassador. HE I. W. W.'s have long been the most impudent lot of males loose in the country, They had fairly defi- nite ideas of what they wanted, and pro- posed to have it or destroy society, or both. The female militant suffragists have been of much the same sort. It is a sort that looks for trouble and glorics in proportion to the amount it The a complete supply, but about a hundred LW finds. militants have never yet found when . Wis were con- victed the other day of conspiracy to upset the war program, their aspira- tions as trouble-seckers fairly well fulfilled. On August joth Judge Landis served ont sto them were sente} running from twenty years’ imprison- for Big Bill) Haywood and fourteen others, down to ten days for onment two. Thirty-three got ten years, thirty- three got five years. These sentences put the I. W. W. form of soci: le light. Even in Russia, where it was able to seize the government ruin the country, it is not very popular. The mass of the people in all countries and that tion in an unfay- reere: orabl and dislike universal destruction is what the I. W. W2's and Bolshevi are always heading for they deal in is fatal The medicine comicbooks.com