Life — May 29, 1919 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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“* While there 1s Life there's Hope" Published by LIFE Mites, Presid d Treasurer 17 West Axpeew English Offices. HE fiying IS have — captured o) the big headlines in the papers as Lire men G read how Commander Read was first in the big jump from Halifax to the Azores, and how the ad- Hawker, a Newfoundland weather, when he saw the venturous A alian Waiting six weeks in for good Americans get off for the Azores, could stand it no longer, but lit out himself, with Grieve, his skipper, and not merely for the Azores, but for all the way to Ireland. How far they got and what befell them has not at this writing been disclosed Fine stories these; worth their space and place; proper to the times, They help one to believe that man-flight will presently be prevalent and popular, and that in due time a Ford will be raised up to make it cheap. fresh evidences that the powers of man and his dominion over matter continue to go forward, and that there is no And they are limit in sight or even imaginable to what man may hope to learn or to do. But after all, the thing that presses on attention just now is not so much the powers and knowledge of men as their deportment. The more they find out, and the more stunts they do, the more important it is that they shouid learn to behave. Everything in this world is secondary to righteousness and manners. If people are bad and rude, and continue to be so greedy, man-flight won't keep them from going to pot. On the contrary, it is just an- other accelerator to speed them faster on their course, wherever it leads. If PUBLISHING Thirty-first $ COMPANY Jawes S. Mereat t, New York Rolls House, Rreams Bldgs. Lon they are heading for hell, they'll get li they are moving towards improved relations and there sooner with man-fligh standards of international man-flight help them in that direction. Let us hope they are so moving better deportment, possibly will The stiecess- ful experiment in long distance flying brings the nations nearer together than but they enough to comm ever, were already near te their troubles and diseases to one another, and unless they are going to share the earth ami- cably, they had better be kept apart ET us that the prospect that every prospered per- may presently tethered in his back yard, and be able to go in it to E or break his nec will help to bring home to Congress a hope increased son have an airplane rope, or to business, init before breakfast proper sense of its responsibilities, and imbue it with a firm resolve to do its best to help mankind Congress has now met. It assembled a this day of writing, and will, doubt- less, have operated appreciably before th words rea thy Providence it is at this time an extreme- ly important body, with matters of If it has should produce it, for the reader. Under enormous concern to handle. a best, it world needs it And particularly the Senate. The Senate must pass on the Peace treaty and the League of Nations. We wish all the members -of the Senate might be taken a good long nde on « ocean-going aeroplane, much of th way over water, just to bring it home to them that this world is moving rap idly, and is quite a different communi- ty from what it when most of And if it Mr. Lodge and Borah and was them began to be senators. could be arranged tha Mr. Reed and Mr others could make para chutes, it might be a good thing, since all these gentlemen need a jolt, and some descents in something to quicken their sense of public peril. Presumably the Peace treaty, League and all, will pass, not hecause the Republican Senators or all the Democrats will like it,-but because the needs of the world will constrain a senators of all the best thing augue of Nations, number of yote for it sufficient parties t obtainable. Tie Li powers of ion as and the powers of tem with con- ditions change, Reparations Commission with huge pering the wind to shorn wolves, or otherwise, provide for the future set Hement of a good many problems not yet worked out and make the treaty adjustable to facts that have not yet fully developed. To some extent they leave Europe in the hands of a court and make the whole treaty more flexi- ble, and, possibly, more acceptable to some members of Congress who are wary of binding this country h fast to agreements that reach over se: ISCOUNT UCHIDA, the Japa- nese Foreign Minister, has closed from Tokio his regret that. there should be so much distrust of the pur- pose of Japan to give back Shantung to China reed to do in due time, if she gets temporary. privi- leges in it through the Peace treaty. This unfortunate distrust is based on an dis- s she has impression, believed to he sustainable by impressive s of occurrences, that Japan, in times past, in her rela- tions with China, has almost habitually said one thing and done another. Vis- cou Uchida deplores this distrust He says that Japan is going to be ab- solutely square about Shantung, includ- ing the Kiao-Chau territory that she Comicbooks.com