Life — April 10, 1919 — page 43: what you’re looking at

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cumulay Up agais th richer of to repr ery sole] came dor rs to visi A Defense of Certain Senators Evitor or Lire—Sir; I “got the habit” of taking od many years ago, It goes without saying that I though not always in accord with its political views. : from some of its splendid editorials lends zest to ing. Failure to agree with them always sets me to nd questioning the soundness of my own conclusions ; you intimate, as was done in the issue of March 6th, opposition of senators to the proposed constitution of © of Nations results from dislike of President Wilson, | challenge the correctness of that implication. Can it be possible that Senators Lodge, Knox, Cummins, ! Poindexter, to say nothing of Democratic senators a like view, are controlled by such unworthy reasons so profoundly and overpoweringly important to as the covenant of the League of Nations? One nter and say that the Democratic senators who favor d covenant do so through fear of the President consequent loss of patronage, but that would not be neing. The subject is too big for personalities or tics. } sare that many of your readers would be greatiy inter- ested i) your answer to the objections raised by these men. Those chjections have appealed to my reason, and their validity is confir ned now by Mr. Taft, who concedes that there should be anvodments to the proposed constitution, though Mr. Wilson ds pat, and practically says: “I have proposed >; you will take them as proposed or you will take " Respectfully, wus Falls, Minn. March 10, 1919. ‘J+ Ws Mason. Some Useful Information © Eptrox or Lire—Sir: Would it be asking too much to have you send out to your esteemed family of military he following useful information: ers of the A. E. F. do not wear the campaign hat, 1 do we wear canvas | As a general rule, at Y. M. C. A. entertainments we do not carry fixed bayonets nor carry our gas masks in the alert position, W. J. B. not being on the A. E. F. circuit. 3. That delightful scene in which a group of doughboys are depicted sitting about the trench on comfortable benches, their pipes, while their less fortunate comrade on >. sweeps up the floor of the trench, is sildom duplicated ers on duty at the front do not wear white collars irrison caps. seems as though all this illustrates our great American too much haste. You see it in our art, in ou in our music, for what is “ musique de J. all it, but an attempt to speed up notes which to our American ear scem too slow? The artist, once he has an idea, and it generally is a clever one, is in such haste to get it onto paper that he forgets the essentiols of accuracy and realism. In the same way, our novelists, wrapped up in speeding up the action of their plots, neglect style and that necessary attention to detail which marks the perfect masterpiece. so it is throughout our national life—hurry, hurry, Get things done! Do things! Do things! Finish start something else! Hurry! Hurry! Speed up! sp! Never mind how, nor why, nor whither! all, where is it all taking us? To be sure, we may ¢ tallest buildings, we may have the richest men, we duce the thickest magazines, and our Sunday papers srnish enough reading matter to last a Frenchman a year, our publishers may boast of the publication of more books than any other nation, our orchestras may be the “ pep Piest,”” but, when you come right down to it, how are we any better off ? If we had a little more of “art for art’s sake” and a little less of art “ for God's sake,” wouldn't we be just as well off? Very truly yours, Keitn F, Warren, 1st Lieut., U.S. A. Somewhere-in-France, November 17, 1918. 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