Life — March 24, 1921 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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

A Blue-Blooded Briticism HE New York Tribune is one of the 1 most esteemed of our many esteemed contemporaries, It is the embodiment of 100 per cent. Americanism, It is written by red-blooded Americans, to be read by red-blooded Americans. And yet now and again its Americanism does not attain to 100 per cent.; it shrinks to Jess than 50 per cent., even if this shrink- age is observable only in a single word— a word which deserves to be denounced as a blue-blooded Briticism. Here is the evidence: “Immediately the traffic slump began, the railroads started to reduce working forces.” . On reading this every red-blooded American must have been conscious of a boiling over of his red blood. What a truly red-blooded American ought to have written is: * ds soon as the traffic slump began the railroads started to reduce working forces.” And this lapse from the standard of pure English was in an editorial, in what the British call a leader—unless it is only alittle one, and then they call it a leader- ette. Quite English, you know. BM. Down With the Infinite! TH attack that Einstein is making up- on the Infinite will cause very general satisfaction, especially in this country. The average American has always vaguely felt that an illimitable universe was too much of a good thing. If we've got to lick all creation eventually, it is satisfac- tory to learn that creation has its limits. Furthermore, Infinity has had a way of ing at Man that has chafed painfully the latter's egotism. We still have a sneaking atavistic fondness for the geo- centric theory, and a boundless universe has been to every one of us a kind of per- sonal affront. Of course, Einstein may be mistaken, It is certain that Infinity won't give up the fight at a mere word from a German scientist. But this great icono- dast will have as an ally in his attack upon limitless space the whole human race. “Man wants but little here below,” and, by same token, he doesn't want too much up above. And so we cry lustily “'Rah for Einstein! Down with Infinity!" Twelve to a |Case IGGS: There goes a reliable fellow; ever lost a case of mine. Jices: Your attorney, ch? Biccs: Attorney nothing! He’s the drayman who helped me move seven times last year. 'LORA: Have you ever met the oniy man you ever loved? Dora: Hundreds of them, my dear. A Painted Terrace at Mammoth Hot Springs Vacation in the land you will never forget —matke it a Burlington-Northern Pacific Planned Vacation through Yellowstone National Park. Enter at famous Gardiner Gateway—sce Devil's Slide, Paradise Valley, Gate of the Mountains, Electric Peak, and other wonders of the northern—Gardiner— entrance, See roaring geysers 250 feet high, fossil forests eons old, the steaming, tinted terraces of Mammoth Hot Springs, the painted canyon graven into “monstrous heads of kings, dead chiefs—men and women of the old time,” the Tetons, Yellowstone Park! Leave via Cody Road—“the most wonderful ninety miles in America.” Motor through colossal Sylvan Pass, wild and beautiful Shoshone Canyon, past the gigantic Government dam higher than the New York Flatiron Building. Burlington-Northern Pacific Planned Vacation in- cludes Cody Road without side trips or additional cost, Also, it takes you, at slight sidetrip cost, to delightful Rocky Mountain National—Estes—Park where you can golf, climb, fish, horse-back ride, as long as you wish; thence to Denver, with Pike's Peak, Colorado Glaciers, Mesa Verde National Park and other numerous and re nowned regions near-by. All the way on through trains— all in connection with your tour of Yellowstone. Free Book of Yellowstone Park All about the park—“ The whole story in a nut- shell.” Richly illustrated. Send for your copy now. YELLOWSTONG, NATIONAL DARK Old Faithful Geyser P. S, EUSTIS Passenger Trafic Manager B&O: Raitroed, Chicago A. M. CLELAND PassengerTrafic Manager, Northern Pacific Railway, St. Paul, Minn, Burlington - Northern Pacific Planned Vacations [2] THE NATIONAL PARK LINE Three great wonder spots Yellowstone Park, Rocky Mountain—Estes— ‘Park and Colorado, ail'on one cree tripe comicbooks.com