Life — June 5, 1919 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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S some ate. It cs the If the save it ace thought incor= 1 which t to be It has Peace Why the nay bee there letter- fo last ling the ciples ent 0 servers re not lement, ligion, rested ing Te- t good e than argain 2 tex & A useful turn, for all its imperfections. \nd in the end, if the nations have not yet been chastened enough to have sense, they'll get another dose. daries, mages, lasting yreath- NE of our Boston correspondents says: “TI have believed all along that the real objections Lodge and others have to the League is its pos- sible interference with a high protec- s cons uty states: erve a SHTENING THEM tive tariff, and the fact that Penrose is to be chairman of the Finance Com- mittee strengthens my suspicions very whether the objection suggested is instinctive or conscious. High protection for the United States is merely another form of the desire of privilege to get a rakeoff, which finds expression in Paris in the haggling for advantages which is thought to be sow- ing the seeds of future wars for Eu- rope. Five days later than our Boston brother wrote, the Tribune’s Washing- ton Bureau reported: “A movement 991 for an upward revision of the tariff by the present Congress is ready for launching in the House, notwithstand- ing the statements of Senator Penrose and other Republican leaders of the Senate that the time is not ripe for such action. Ford- Moore are be- Representatives ney, Longworth and hind the new move. They believe the present tariff schedules should be prac- tically doubled.” (CCPAN [RE President recommended in hfs message intoxicants during the war and the de- that July 1st. aled so far as it relates nd beer. that the prohibition of mobilization, should be rep to wine 1 but the recommendation shows that the Presi- make begins Congress seems to ck available coura: dent can distinction between drinks, and shares the views of most civilized people as to which drinks do harm enough to warrant th tion, and which do not restric- OMEBODY else may win the hig prize for ocean-going airplanes, but no one can get the advertisement away from Harry Hawker. He came, he saw, he got tired of waiting, he flew, and disappeared from human knowl- Everybody mourned his untime- rit. The ary, and poems edge. ly end and praised his all published his obit were written about him, including an *rancis Hackett, apers extra good one by F saying: My grave is in the ashen plain, My spirit in the air. But it wasn’t so. He was picked up hy small ship with a restricted wire- less, and is home again now with the valiant Grieve still his companion Whether his next of kin will get the fifty thousand dollars consolation prize that Lord Northcliffe awarded them is not known at this writing, but they have got Hawker, and he ts worth more than that to any family. Just as good luck to him another time, and a drier landin, comicbooks.com