Life — March 27, 1919 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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Yosren ne Manes “aw kicuT! suet up! BLUBBE Have You Noticed— HAT nobody in the Fatherland has that he claimed a German national holiday? of vermans suggested November 11 The increased — unpopularity nin the firm names of ng business in this country? That our well-to-do tightwads who 1 to do their sh ns have not been ostracized ? re in the Liberty The forced expression of unconcern the faces of the struggling women ho are trying to get accustomed to the new-fashioned narrow skirts? VLL TAKE YE TO SEE THE soc! N’, OR THEY'LL THINK Y'RE | | j. BUT QUIT YER A HU How smoothly we are slipping back into our old ruts of ease and laziness? That there are few divine rights left? And that every last one of us, with- out having given the matter more thana passing thought, knows exactly how the League of Nations project is going to turn out? The Difficult Part ILLICUS: please a woman. Cyxicus: Oh, it’s easy enough if you can make her decide what she wants. It is mighty hard to 497 In Defence of Professors “THE tendency to deride the abilities and practical commercial value of college professors appears to be on the When any clever writer has nothing else to do, he considers it a proper and honorable thing to take a fing at these much abused gentlemen FE. W. Howe of them that he knows scarcely a writing who is not a dangerous disturber, and increase. says professor that they are a “mischievous class of men.” College professors are no doubt lim- ited in their intelligence, and defective in their outlook on practical affairs. They revel in half-baked theories and insupportable inventions, but are they worse than the average run of man- kind? The statistic: tell that about ninety per cent. of who start new business ventures fail. The average pay of clergymen, doctors and lawyers is as low as the professors’. ns us men The main difference between the pro- fessors and the rest of mankind is that, like brother Cobb's goldfish, processes are exposed to public view. their The opinions of many business men are no doubt valuable, although, inciden- tally, it is true that Mr. Gary, president of the Stecl Trust, solemnly predicted two years ago that the war would be over in three But months, even if hrm MIS FIRST APTER-DINNER SPEECH comicbooks.com