Life — June 12, 1919 — page 22: what you’re looking at

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JUNE 12 While there ts Life there's: Hope" Marit Published by LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY Anorew Mitrer, Presi tand Treasurer Jawes S. Metcanrr, Secretary tz West Thirty-first Street, New York English Offices, Rolls House, Breams Bldgs. London, EF. ¢ Pe PUBLIC inter~atives have signed what was put bed pam: est. in the fore them, They knew their country Ce —~ Peace Congress was all in, and did not even make a SPY) "is waning. Read- blu about it. Dr. Vernon Kellogg, a y ae ers of newspa- good observer, as his readers know, pers who follow its as we get them the proceedings are approaching the condition of man who undertook to read the En- and got almost to cyclopedia throug the end and lost his place. have lost the thread of the story of late, and are a bit languid, and turn to Readers the baseball news or the story of the rich lady who has blown herself to another hushand. Our world is. slip- ping back to its old, minor ix terests. People go to the country again and raise flowers and and asparagus. together. Colles with revived ardor this year. people are getting married, and doing it ceremoniously, times Formal peace lags, but people are not anxious. For the first summer in five ars they are not anxious, There is no war news to read, and they are glad of it, and as for the peace news, they are, as said, a little tired of it, and willing to have the gentlemen on the job put it through the best they can. And they are doing it. They are wrangling it slowly out, but not more slowly than is reasonable, considering home-grown Families are commencin} Young rs are as in old the size and complexity of the busi- ness, - Just now, what was Austria, disintegrated into mere __ political crumbs, has been swep: into the dust- pan. Hungary has set up for herself. The Austria that is left has no ports of her own, though free access to the sea is secured to her. Her represent- describes Vienna (in the Atlantic) as the most broken great city he has seen and he saw many cities of Europe dur- g the war, and has seen most of them since the war. Vienna of the Haps- burgs, Vienna of the most exclusive nobility in Europe, Vienna that seized Herzegovina and Vienna of the uss waltzes an the Vienna rolls Bosnia, the beer and Dr. Kellogg saw her last February, and he says, “ Brussels in her darkest days was not like this: Warsaw was not like this!" O matter what those people sign, except as it helps or hinders thei recovery! If order is kept in the co tries that lately were Austria, and agri- culture can go on and wheels again presently in factories, there will be recovery, let us hope. And Heaven send there may be laughter and dances again in Vienna some day. It was a pleasant city; the pleasantest, next to Paris, in Europe, and, after all, it is still on the map, and_ still the Danube, and still on several railroads, and possibly the qualities of the people who made it pleasant may survive and reassert themselv: come. turn on in generations to The other Germans haggle, and re- fuse to sign, and say the terms are fatal, and possibly they will get them modified. The delay scems to be hav- ing some effects. Parties in the Rhiy land states announce that they have seceded and set up a republic, and if that should prove a genuine al movement, it may be catch 1 Germany come presently to look more like Brother amended map than there has been promise of here- tofore. But it seems more likely t represent Germany will sign the peace treaty hy the middle of June. If not, we shail see what we will see, and it may be occupation of the rest of German: especially Berlin, by the troops of the Allies, but it will not be war. Ger many has not now the facilitie: They say the Germans are very slow to realize that they have su: inte Cram's some persons claiming to war. a military defeat, and possibly it may he necessary to convince them of it Their causes, processes and results, has been very incomplete and misleading, and conceivably information about the war, its their education needs to be assisted hy the sight of more foreign troops on German soil f the world has got with the and no new one seems to be There are scufiles still Bolsheviki and not war. Advices from Vancouver on the Coast are interesting. There is Carnegie Library in Vancouver w reports that while the armies were in the trenches in France and Flanders. readers devoured books that dealt with armies and fighting men. But that de mand is dead, and just now inquiry is keen for spiritualist books, which lately gathered dust on shelves, but now are in such request that waiting lists of applicants who want them contain hun- dreds of names. For a time the library was invaded by patrons not known to its attendants, who wanted books on Socialism and class warfare, but of late weeks that demand has dropped away like the quest for war hooks. The people of this world seem to want something new to think about. UT the rest ¢ through war—the war that was. impending. with the but others, comicbooks.com