Life — May 22, 1919 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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Uncle Sam: NOW MAND OVER THE POST OFFIC already going about it. William Allen says Europe expects us to take charge of these Armenians and guarantee their security, and that unless we do, it is all up with them. That sounds interesting, and one would like to hear more about it, and other interesting situations may turn up in the East, involving possible ac- tivities or responsibilities on our part, on which the opinion of Congress may be requested. After all, a large major- ity of the world’s population resides outside of Europe and America, and, though it has been represented in the Peace Congress, and will be repre- sented in the League of Nations, it has not had much voice in either. The teeming East must be looked after. It is liable to a great development, espe- cially China, and when one gets as far east as China, he runs into the zone of American responsibility. To safeguard Asia on her way to modern industrial civilization is a large contract, from a share in which no powerful nation that is trusuworthy can expect to escape. Asia is a part of the world, and making her safe for democracy may involve a considerable new outlay for maps for American schoolhouses There may be still more trying times ahead for Sena- tor Borah than those now present, but that will hardly deter the people of the United States from tackling such jobs as seem to be up to them. E foan went over, of course, with a big margin. It wasn’t bad to take. There is a big manflight under way, which aspires to reach Europe. At this writing it has got as far as New- foundland. Manflight in war was undeniably important, and got a great boost. What it will amount to in peace is a question for the imagination. It is not so important that men shall fiy as that they shall learn how best to conduct themselves while their feet are on the earth, but flight is a wonderful thing, and is the current novelty, and may have in it possibilities which, when worked out, will make mundane life more interesting and perhaps more profitable. So these experiments now in progress are all right and belong to be, though the spiritists may feel that they are than spiritism, and hardly less uncertain in their outlook less interesting are reminded by Colonel (lately Commissioner) Arthur Woods that our brethren in khaki who lately had employment in France are coming back by the hundred thousand, and that many of them need jobs And of course they must have them, They were our agents; they did what and did it with the utmost expedition and superlatively well. They are our charge until they are re-established in wage-yielding pursuits, To many of them employ- ment holds out eager hands. For the rest Colonel Woods tells us to make jobs. Switch around, he says, from the religion of spending nothing, to one of doing the things now that have been put off for three or four years— painting the house, cementing the cel- lar, fixing the garage or shingling the barn. “If everyone would do a few things around his place, all put to- gether it would go a long w toward making jobs for these boy: So, Colonel Woods, and it is a good suggestion. Hear, hear! we wanted done, comicbooks.com