Life — June 23, 1921 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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June 23 tantrums and scalawag purposes and in- fernal ingenuities that have got the world into so bad a case. We hope Mr. Bok's rst prize will be awarded to somebody that makes the best improvement in man. That will help Philadelphia the most and the same time diminish the guilt of motor cars and be a help to a world gen- erally depressed. ee tpt TY “My Perms by SN ap HE Stillman case drags along, taking up a large allowance of space in the daily papers and making very sordid People with a large appetite for Most decent people It is a heavy tax on so we ought to get out reading. cossip may like it. find it unpalatable. patience, and bei t any useful things that it may contain. The Hearst American printed a story day about James Stillman’s father and mother, how, for the last twenty odd years of his father’s life, his parents were separated and his mother lived out of the United States. They had five or six children, who apparently did not see their mother for nearly a quarter of a century. The cause of the separation docs not appear, but the father’s widow takes sides with the fighting wife of her son, The fact that James Stillman, Sr., got very rich tempts one to attribute other very, his shortcomings and troubles to money. Perhaps he got richer than he was con- stituted to endure. Water is a fine thing. We cannot live without it, and it is handy to wash in. It is one of the most useful things in the world and indispensable to human life, but my! when it gets loose in quantity and slops around as it did the other day at Pueblo in Colorado, see what havoc it raises and what fatalities follow! Money also is very useful, and a certain imount of it seems to be practically in- dispensable to current human life, but loose in quantity it may raise as much havoc as water. The thing to do about water is to keep one’s head above it, and the same thing is necessary in one’s rela- tion to money. No matter how much water you have dropped into you can get along if you can swim, and if you can swim successfully in moncy, even a great surplus of it may not hurt you. But if you cannot swim when you drop into too much water you drown, and when you fall into too much money you do not do much better. Perhaps the Stillman case may be worth its space and its noise to remind people of the very slight connection between riches and happiness, That it is a bawling scan- dal is a good thing. The more it bawls, the better. The father’s scandal, if he had one, was successfully suppressed. This one that affects the son is getting an cnor- mous publicity, and may be worth it as a factor in correcting human estimates of what it is worth while to be and what it is worth while to have. But as to the men, father and son, alas, for them! they are pitiable for what they missed in spite of what they got. 2B a. IR OLIVER LODGE is a confirmed and trustworthy optimist. Out of that sun spot storm that lately disorgan- 99 ized cable service, he sees good results— the strengthening of the monsoon and a consequent improvement in the Indian harvest and possible benefit to our own crops from the electrified particles thrown off by the sun during the extraordinary disturbance. Sir Oliver looks on the bright side even of a sun spot. He knows how to look. He is the kind of man who can see that George Harvey is doing good. A newspaper headline reads: RECALL OF HARVEY BELIEVED UNLIKELY. Unlikely? One would say so. In squally weather like this, so prudent an administration as Mr. Harding’s can surely be trusted to know a good lightning rod when it sees it and to keep it installed. E. S. Martin, 2, MOG § as ve poor eo vot THE BAD ACTOR “GIVE HIM THE HOOK.” comicbooks.com