Life — October 2, 1919 — page 14: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

Judge: NOW, SIR, BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU'RE SAYING. Money Well Spent Congressional investigations of war expenditures are costing ten thousand dollars a month, one of the paid investigators receiving a salary of fifty dollars a day. —News item. Tus is really getting off very cheap. The war cost a lot of money, and an investiga- tion that didn’t run up a big bill could hardly be trusted. Investigators are scarce, and the first-class ones come high. The gentleman who is being paid eighteen thousand dollars in this connection is probably worth every penny of it. A certain man named Pershing, who undertook a job for the United States in France, received something like fif- teen thousand dollars a year for his services. Since the results show that this was money well spent, are we, after all, so inconsistent in applying the principle all along the line? What blessings may the truth- seekers of Congress not expect from their eighteen-thou- sand-dollars-a-year investigator ! ‘AOv T seemed unnecessary for Mr. Wilson to stump the country; the country was stumped already. ALL WE WANT FROM YOU IS THE TRUTH. “BUT, YOUR HONOR, I THOUGHT I WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A WITNESS FOR THE DEFENSE. THE HEIGHT OF NERVE TRYING TO FLIRT WITH A GIRL WHEN SHE 1S HANGING ON TO A STRAP comicbooks.comm