Life — May 27, 1920 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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Miss Democracy ine necessaries of life because immigra- hon has fallen off and because too large a sture of labor is employed on luxuries wd in factories and cities; also because labor is so highly paid that it doesn't have to work overmuch, Labor has the simple life already, and enjoys it particularly just now because it is able to enrich it with silk shirts and automobiles. It takes time off to enjoy leisure and other new pleasures, and that helps to increase the y of hands and makes wages take another rise, Let us all sit down and invite our souls, and stop buying things so much, stop necd- ing things so much, stop having things in stich quantity, and think about politics, er the next world, or literature—how bad nd learn to eat less and to sleep a ¢ life a bit easier. After the main it is little more and all, the bh atures are We are the snails. © merely provided When they cease to be convenient they cease to have justifi tion. If we shrink a little we shall get on very well with smaller ones, with less on our backs our locomotion will man cr thing hese expen- sive shells we live in a for our convenience. nd perhaps take on speed. The descent in the scale of one’s living is the main bugbear of economy it will restrict us in our and that prospect ities indulgences, and condemn us to a duller life, and that cur consequence will diminish with our expenditures, So it may in some y cases where expenditure and the m ans to do But in s the main thing, there will be a gain in freedom by retrenchment. It takes a lot of time to spend money to any worth while purpose count for more than personality. other cases where personality To a great many people reduced expen- diture, bowever prospect, will mean less work, less worry and more time to think. qj ~~. ZA, WER UT now in politics, who i conduct us over the path to retrench- ment? Think of that! Watch all the convention candidates, and say if anyone looks better than Hoover ; and if so, who? uninviting in going to Does anyone else seem to combine so much y so much experience in adjusting shortage ion, so much timely knowledge, int supplies to clamorous demand, so deep an understanding of economic canses as of the cause of profiteering, so wizard MY NEIGHBOR'S CANDIDATA AMERICANA ARE READY TO PICK AND LOOK AT MINE! like a touch in distribution, so much heart with so discern the There looks to be a pinch ahead for most of us plain much capacity to right thing and get it done? people and we shall have to grin and bear it, and it may do us a lot of good But we don’t want it to last longer than is necessary. We don’t want it 10 be need lessly extended by bad management and Enough sufficient experience of the lack of brains in high places discipline— simple life—will do us just as well as more. We are willing to stand the racket of readjustment—we must be—but we don't want the additional pains of mal We want an expert on the job We believe he knows better than anyone else practice. and that is why we want Hoover to cure the economic disorders of this upset world, and our own pains, pres- how ent and impending, in particular That is why people want Hoover. They feel unpleasant pangs and expect them to nd want a first-class doctor, of and he worse, experience with the latest diseases up to the date in methods and practice. That is all call for Hoover. There is no politics in it at all there is in the I: is partly religion in that there is back of it a concern for all mankind, and the rest of it is just horse sense. comicbooks.com