Life — January 8, 1920 — page 37: what you’re looking at

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All About Mandates What is a mandate? Q. ‘A. A mandate is the job of tak- ing care of a region that isn’t able to take care of itself. Q. What is the big idea of a man- date? . A, The big idea of a mandate is to develop all the possibilities which the mandate presents, Q. Some mandates are better than others, are they not? A. It all depends what you want to get out of the mandate. Q. What is there for America to get out of its mandate for Armenia? 4. About seventeen varieties of trouble. Q. Does America want to get trou- be out of Armenia? i is nothing else in Armenia tia is nearer to France and Italy and England and Japan than it is to America, is it not? A. Much. Q. Then why doesn’t Italy or Eng- land or Japan or France accept the mandate for Armenia? A. Because Italy and France and Japan and England do not care to get nothing but trouble out of a mandate. Q. What do England and Italy and Japan and France wish to get out of a mandate A. Please try to be serious. Q. Why do our allies wish the Ar- menian mandate on us? A. Because we stated that America wanted nothing for itself; so our allies want to he sure that we get what we are looking for. Q. But you have said that America would get trouble out of Armenia. Isn't something ? A. No; it's nothing, and scarcely that, it you know what we mean. Q. If England and Italy and France and Japan accept a number of man- dates out of which they get many PURITY CRO Boned Chicken. Really Bonstess Superfine Quality andy tins SU Quatity Stores “The Dally Menu Maker” its blossoms all Wi Winter in California Here children laugh at play, and age lengthens its span. Miles of flower-bordered, sunlit boulevards. Upland slopes, covered with "the green and gold of orange groves. Luxurious resort hotels and rose-bowered bungalows. All under the spell of a summer sea. En route visit the national parks, national monuments, and other winter resorts. See Hawaii, too. Ask the local ticket agent to help Jan your trip—or apply to the nearest Consolidated Ticket Office—or address nearest Travel Bureau, United States Railroad Administration, 646 Transportation Bldg., Chicago; 143 Liberty Street, New York City; 602 Heder Bids. , Atlanta, Ga. Please indicate the places you wish to see en route. ‘alifornia for the Tourist,’* and other resort booklets, on request. things, why can’t one of them let us have one small mandate that would . neutralize the great expense to which we will be put to get nothing, and scarcely that, out of Armenia? A. Why should they? Q. Who gave England the mandate for Persia? A. Please don’t get personal. Q. What would England have done if anybody had asked her to accept the mandate for Armenia? A. She would probably have laughed herself to death. Q. Would you say that evidently our allies’ idea of a mandate is slightly different from our own? A. We would willingly tell the world that such is the case. Q. What general comment would you make on America’s mandate for Armenia? A. You should know better than to ask us to print anything of that nature. comicbooks.com