Life — April 24, 1919 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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nd has was me a ‘ause and sin vaght peda buted We ybe nd is iver- Me- HIS OPPORTUNITY ial train- camp known as private life. » into the great Presider Meanwhile, the postal service is not xl, the telegraph companies deliver r messages by mail, and the tele- wone service is losing its morale. hen Mr. Burleson is ch ed with sevdelinquencies he: probably: says that there has been a large war and that wages have gone up, and that postal, telephone and telegraph services re much better in this country than wwhere else in the world No doubt he has something equally about all the misdeeds utomay be laid to him, as that the ircel post is a good thing, and the old exations to express service was uneconomic; and at is why we should like to have all he charges against him formally pro- duced and judgment given on them by Sperts. looks at this writing as though someone was about to be drowned in a first attempt to fly an airship across People who like that form of advertisement like it, just as polar explorers like polar exploration and restless gentlemen sometimes put in intervals between other occupations in chopping their way through jungles Man is an insatiate creature, and once he tastes in Africa or South America of glory, can bear anything better than to be bored or to sit down unknown. The full development of the possi- bilities of airships may put navies out of commission—thereby saving much expense—and make war still more in- expedient than it is at present As one reads from day to day of good men being killed hy falls in air planes, it seems as though we had had enough deaths from such causes in the war, and that now people would do better to stick to earth and avoid aerial hazards. But th sound attitude. Provided the game is worth the candle, humanity always has candies to burn, and this man-fight game scems worth while. Haste in getting across the ocean seems not a matter of vital, human concern, but as an item in the development of man's power over ure, it has its place. The develop- ment of man-power has gone too far to stop. The vast destructiveness that has attended it cannot be cured by 707 turning backward. The way out in this matter is on and over the top. The powers of man have already reached a point where a wholesale de- velopment of morality and forbear- ance has come to scem the price of continued civilization, and even of con- tinued existence. Every new power that is acquired makes better human conduct more imperative. Good luck, then, to the a rplane heroes! drink, tell ye! of > HE working alor ‘e Congress seems to be finish. The ¢ of Nations draws fire only from the more hardy to new draft of t opponents. Talk of formal peace terms to be submitted for acceptance by May Ist now gets the top of the columns in the papers, and the German repre- sentatives are expected to be in Paris on April 23th, The terms as threshed out seem likely to inspire only moder- satisfaction. Japan ate and hearable wanted all distinction wiped out be- tween yellow people and white, but the Council declines so far to ignore the pparent intentions of the Creator The hopes and needs of Fi nce seem ed by the pros- to be partially app pect of getting the Saar Valley coal Italy wants more Adriat she will get, but will not he left with- ¢ ports t out consolations. The bill presented to Germany will be la with pro- vision for prompt payment of substan- sums to France. The details will tia fill a book. The dispatches say they will run to the length of one hundred and fifty thousand words, which is as long as a fairly long best-seller. It will be a very expensive hook, but probably not popular. The crit grumble awfully about it. People will buy it and put it away to read when AM the characters in ics will they have time it will be more or less mutinous about the figures they cut in the story. Nevertheless, the hook promises to be accepted as a work of merit, all things considered, and to go on the shelves alongside of the most important docu- ments in human history, So big a gon- tract was never offered for si; ures before, nor one of such compelling necessity. comicbooks.com