Life — June 12, 1919 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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When Sammyboy plunged in the sea Without a stitch or backward glance, escue drowning Liberty Then Bone-dry Stiggins saw his chance. With stealthy step he made his w The spiritualist books certainly give it to them, and at present in increasing quantities. “the Coast,” and the minds of the Coast Vancouver is on dwellers are well known to be more ble to novel- adventurous and hospi ties than minds in the effete East, but one like hereabout and publishers same rise of interest in spiritualist pub- would to know if libraries serve the lications. g ‘WO years ago the colleges had war commencements, and swarmed avith THE SPOILING OF SAMMY On pussyfeet that left no trace, Where Sammy's clothes unguarded lay, And left for Sammy, in their place, A shirt as painful as perdition- The prickly shirt of Prohibition men in khaki, Last year most of them were in France and just be give visible evidence of what they went This year a large propor- inning to there for. tion of them are back, and most of them, happils ition, and the preliminary begin till the first of July, and com- hid full of Their graduating classes in good « “dry” period does not mencements fair to be cheerfulness. may be small, but the graduate attend- ance will be large. For there is much to celebrate. The colleges did well, of course, in the war. Now their guard- managers are watching for the emergence of the much advertised new order, with a view to supply its they can discover jans and needs as what they are. soon 1039 If the peace commissioners had got home in time some adventurous insti- tutions would probably have given them honorary degrees. Next year will be better for that, for by that time it may be possible judge a little better they have tless, the di what will accomplished This year, de grees will ne kin would id, “by no means excepting women.” Commander be a f all go to war heroes of or another, and as Lincoln have Read, the airman, would vorite for commencement honors if he were not in England As for his exploit in getti the Atlantic in an airplane, it is ne ble, of course, but how notable only time can tell. Submarines prove themselves an immensely important fac- tor in war » did airplanes. But how good cither of them will ever be for the uses drum. So peace is still a ¢ nun- ar as we know, no air- plane has ever yet earned its keep in civil or industrial lal be dem ated that these remark: machines can ¢ The are great, but.not, as yet, so great a the Ford car. bors. It is yet to le n their living. OMBS them, in again! Lots of several cities, missing their main object, as usual, except in so far as it but killing several and disturbing is advertisement, people, doing dar folks’ nerves! At this writing, Wash- ington, Cleveland, Boston, Pittsburg, Philadelphia, Paterson, N. J., Newton- ville in Massachusetts, and New York have felt the jar of these rem are taken to be the second com- ven on May 1st by iders, whi ing of th bombs sent through the mails. bombs were very skilfully made, and the assassins who are operating in this noti Those fashion seem to know their busines as the mechanics of it goes. Tl preferred marks are officers of the law Attorney-General Palmer in Wash- ington; judges in New York, and Pittsburg, none of whom, happily, Boston was hurt. The Reds have given notice. Now, then, let us see what Society can do about it. comicbooks.com