Life — January 2, 1919 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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“WHEN THE CAT'S AWAY THE MICE WILL he is going to fali down on the ob, and that Massachusetts will pres- ently send another Irishman to sit in his place in the Senate, as Walsh v sit in Weeks’ seat. The Irish are Irish, «ven in Massachusetts, but, at least, they have not lost faith, and the old Republican leadership of the Codfish State has lost it, and that’s what ails them. The Irish will beat them till they catch up with the living present. and a good job. ing, and what a man thonght yesterd you cannot be sure of finding here to to-morrow. Mr. Root, it r noticed, is not saying anything. He is a good deal more than a Republican politician, and heing ont of active poli- tics, probably feels quite free to con- nee EY 9 Play” template mankind, and Jet his mind work. There are things doing that would naturally interest him) much more than the possibility of clecting + Republican President two years hence And Mr. Taft is right-minded and tries to do good, and so, no doubt, docs Mr. Hughes, What the Peace Congress will be able to do will depend chiefly upon the spirit with which its members come to their task. It is that, very largely, that is forming now, and Mr. Wilson, in his perambulations and discourses, is helping to form it. He seems to have the ball, and th nd en- courages the people in all countries who want to sce it put over between pleases the goal posts. ca——w! THE Tribune is fighting the League of Nations now with Chéradame 17 That scems a token of despair. Chéradame has been useful. He has had one idea—Pan-Germanism. He knew all about it, and fought it gal- lantly, and being a one-idea man, wanfs to go on fighting it till the end of time. But Pan-Germanism is a dead duck, and Chéradame is as much out of a job as Frank Simonds with the war over. The Tribune needs some new ideas. Its great service lately been to fight Hearst, and try to get him effect- wally caught up with. It has heen bold and very helpful in that dirty and dan- gerous job, and its war record was ad- mirable so far as punch and purpose went, though, to our mind, often lack- That is why it makes it wallow in picaynne Wilson. One would Rei 2 Mrs. Hearst would get has ing in discretion, sad to se opposition 10 think that Mrs hoth excellent together and women. withdraw their boys from the newspaper busine nd s them severally on ex tos expense. And if Billy never returned mourners would there be Hearst pay ions, how many besides rolls? gentlemen on He is a strange creature. .\ reck of jalsity stinks out of his papers nowa- days. They are rigged ont and padded to seem something that they faced with harmless pictures and pe fectly innocent articles to cover a dea monster. My, my! Whom did Willic sell his own soul to when he bought Bri are nots, INDENBURG is talking of a nev German army that must be greater than even the unbeaten one that has heen welcomed hack to Berlin That is a hair-of-the-dog remedy What onght to interest Hindenburg is his chance of getting finally ont of the German mess without being hanged very serions 1 set- There must be very, charges awaiting him in the f tlement. Mackensen has been interne Fast somewhere, and the papers say he took it very sadly. Well he may. Jown comicbooks.com