Life — June 30, 1921 — page 24: what you’re looking at

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SENATOR MOSES ENVISAGES A MENACE, (Special Correspondence.) ASHINGTO) has dreamed of sitting in a thea down the middle of ith June 28.—Everyone one time or another re or walking Avenue and suddenly realizing that by some unaccount- able oversight he has neglected to put on any clothes. It is not a comfortable feel- ing, yet there is every prospect that the facts of the dream may become painful the United States. has grave that After studying the reality to the citizens ¢ Senator Moses is the who wakened me to the man menace threatens this republic facts about the clothing industry that he recently gave to the Senate, it is perfectly that this country is straight for an Adam-and-Eve affairs. ince seems, there have been strikes in most of the great clothing centres, with the result that production is only 25 per cent Simple cal- culation shows that in a few years, there- fore, only apparent heading state of December, it normal. per cent. of our citizens will have any clothes at all. This would almost certainly develop a clothing aristocracy more snobbish than the money barons of the families of would past; the future Let Us Have Clothes Sounder Proposes to Ration What the Man Will Wear By GLU boast of descent from a dress-suit, and a grandfather had Style-Bilt would be a personage of some importance in his com- man whose owned a pair of trousers munity, It is impossible, however, to think of giving in to the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, who, according to report, are tize the clothing industry, seeking to sov und who, it is said, are so vermil sympathy that Mr. Gompers has repu them. ously object to having my suits made by Now I, for one, should most seri- a Bolshevist who might at any moment take it into his head to start a little direct action by sewing a bomb in the interlin ing. I have no desire to put myself at the merey of my tailor, and I am sure that On. per cent the country as a whole is with me. viously, then, we should meet a 2: production by putting ourselves on a 2 yer cent. clothing ration, and I am already preparing a bill to that effect. I am sure that our Sena- killed half se tors could have the p casily if the not treaty debate had lwen conducted in B. V. D. no matter Jew statesman- WILLIAMS like the cut. And at inaugurations, chance will a future president have to impressive about Americanism, awainst the background of a union suit? My clothes-rationing bill is still ver much in the rough, and I shall . suggestions that Under the first draft I have div country into districts, veleom any may be offered th cording lin To the New England states | have a signed low shoes, bathing trunks a compliment to the capital of Mass setts, garters. District 2, comprising the Middle West- ern states, could get along, | think, wit collars, neckties ts, (optional) ar ‘0 the colder regions I have apportioned serviceable suit of balbriggans, with belt in. winter. For the Southwestern district } haven't heen able to think of anything except mit seem a Hit. tle incomplete as a costume suspenders, which 1 Undoubtedly sectional interests will inst I support uf severely criticize this measure am counting on the loy all 100 per cent. Americans who realize how serious the situation really Senator » come SON KISS MISS. Goop-By.” TH’ sITUATION— “ DEMANDS DESP’RATE MEASURES ! “weer 1 am!” comicbooks.com