Life — July 21, 1921 — page 22: what you’re looking at

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NE notable result of prohibition en- forcement is the way it has in- cicased popular respect for the law—of supply and demand. * * x “Oh, Fashion! What shins mitted in thy name!” are per- We wonder why the Dearborn Inde- pendent hasn’t called attention to the fact that the Israelites used a Ford in cross- ing the Red Sea. * * * Prohibition jokes, says the New York Tulsa, Oklahoma, is crediting its Polic Chief with failure to prevent the dispos:| of stolen automobiles, failure to enfore ) the prohibition law, failure to supp: vice and failure to enforce the law agains carrying firearms. If he can show in addition th * * * It is said that thousands of political hangers-on are seek- ing jobs in Washington. Thou- sands of communities will be grateful if they get them—in Washington. * * * Slack Times Hit Bituminous Coal Fields—Headline. Pretty soft! * ea A Yorkshire laborer has mentally stored away 31,000 items of general information. Quick, Watson, the Edison questionnaire! * ok * “Moonshine,” despite the name, is not a light drink. * * * A party of motorists go down an embankment and emerge with broken skulls, ribs and limbs. Next day the papers speak of it as a joy ride. * ok * “Earthquakes,” says an Eng- lish paper, “occur in Great Britain on the average of once Local Gossip. Joe Hicks’s a joosher. back from having her appendix took out. It cost a heap an’ Joe’s been tellin’ all hands thet he had his spondulicks removed. (To be continued in our next) Missus Hicks just gut he knows nothing whateve; about the Wall Street bom} difficulty landing a fat job o the New York force. * * * When talking movies are ; fact, women will have the las reel, ek * Brewery and Soft Drint Workers, Glass Bottle Blow. ers, Metal Polishers, Mu. sicians, Plumbers and Tobacc Workers were among the or. ganized groups that helped re. elect Samuel Gompers presi. dent of the American Feder: tion of Labor. For he’s a jolly good fellow. * *k * Said one German to another: “How’s the world treatying you?” * * * Twenty thousand people sav Cribb beat the doughty Amer: can black, Tom Molineux, « Thistleton Gap, Leicestershire in the presence of 20,00 | people——From the New Yor a month,” Sometimes they call them Harvey and sometimes they call them Sims. * = & Some of our busiest business men are finding time to go abroad this year. A sort of leave of abstinence, we take it. * ee The “pursuit of happiness” in the United States has become a paper-chase in a Sahara. * * * “Our Correspondents,” says the Vladi- vostok Daily News, “are requested, in ad- dressing envelopes, to use care that Si- beria should not be made to read Li- beria. It makes an L of a difference. Evening Post, are “already getting flaW— like home brew.” Perhaps the Post’s recipe doesn’t call for enough yeast. * * * “Servians” object to the use of that designation on accotnt of its menial suggestion, and insist on being known as “Serbs.” For the same very good reason we expect to hear the “Slavs” wailing to be known as “Slabs.” * * * If it weren’t for the United States Eu- rope would have to get along without wars. * * * Some men never have any respect for old age unless it is bottled. Times. For the benefit of our little readers w may explain that, in spite of all that tk Times may intimate to the contrary there were actually twenty thousani spectators at the fight. e+ & Merrill K. Riddick, the country’s fir “hobo aviator,” has landed in Washingto: “looking for work.” We believe this is the first case on rec ord in which anyone ever elected to 9 to Washington for that purpose. * * * There is a growing suspicion that tht time has at last come for citizens of th United States to assemble and sign i Declaration of Independence from Sin Fein, explosion, he ought to have m § Q fits 0 A. Mign Cana Qa eficia A. Q cold A. Q impo comicbooks.com