Life — October 28, 1920 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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Bolshevist immigrants consider that financiers have too much money. It is taxed by the govern- ment for all its poor necéssities, including th necessity of remaining unmarried because it c. not afford a family, Years ago a railroad magnate put himself on record as saying a true word, “The public be damned!” It is damned. To be damned is one of its functions. Quite recently an Irish gentle- man bearing the picturesque title of the O'Connor Don protested bitterly that the Irish public had been brought to “ruin and damnation” because two contending Irish factions refused to come to terms. He seems to have forgotten what a public is for, In this great and free country we never forget. Definitions may be difficult, but to the public has been assigned a recognizable rdle. It always pays the piper, but it never calls the tune. Agnes Repplier. The New Republics WHEN the newspapers recently announced that a diplomatic representative from the Latvian Republic had been detained at Ellis Island, a great number of our citizens learned for the first time that there is such a place on the face of the earth as Latvia, Which goes to show that the many small na- tions which have come into being since the war don't need diplomatic representatives in the JAMER NONTSOWERY FLAGS United States so much as press agents. TRY THIS ON YOUR BOLSHEVICTROLA His looks were enough to convict him, In These Trying Times Bene ee ee ILLY: Men age so much more rapidly than women “T'm not Bolshey Bitty: I suppose that accounts for the fact that by I'm what you might call ‘Bolshevictim!’” the time a man is rich enough to be a girl's husband he is old enough to be her father, What Is the Public? BOUT election time the public hears itself spoken of in terms of respect and affection, “The voice of the public,” “The welfare of the public,” and even “The authority of the public,” are fa- miliar platform amenities. To ask what they mean is futile, because, like other oratorical phrases, “ Toiling masses" and “Peaceful intervention,” they do not mean anything at all. Yet the public exists, unorganized, un- consolidated, without unions, or brother- hoods, or delegates, but not without func- tions of its own. It pays the profiteering producer and the profiteering laborer. It pays the profiteering landlord, the profi- tecring plumber and the profiteering cook. When corporations and their employees are on good terms, it is privileged to ride in trolley cars under conditions which would be considered indecent in Dahomey. When corporations and their employees fall out, it walks weary miles to and from its humble avocations. It works long hours in stuffy office buildings for meagre salaries, and is dynamited whenever our “YOUR LITTLE GIRL FRIENDS ARE SO NICE, JIMMY; BUT WHY DID YOU ASK THE LITTLE Boys?” comicbooks.comy