Life — September 8, 1921 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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September 8 WHICH? Nealy in the Cleveland Intelligencer-Democrat, AL QUESTION n the St. Louis Gazette-News. VARYING VIEWS OF THE TARIFF QUESTION MeNaughty in the San Francisco Dispatch-Telegraph-Post, THE FIFTY BILLION DOLLAR APPROPRIATION BILL ELDOM has such a storm of controversy, one way and the S other, been stirred up as has resulted from the introduction into Congress of the Lupkin-McArdle Appropriation Bill, calling for an expenditure of $50,000,000,000 from the national treasury “A great waste of money” is the phrase used by the Provi- dence Informer-Democrat’ (Ind. Rep.) while the Louisville Herald-Bee (Dem.) refers to it “the greatest piece of con- structive legislation since the revocation of the Edict of Nantes”. Still another viewpoint is taken by the Boise Courier-Blatt (Soc.) which says: “Representative McArdle has introduced his bill for the appropriation of Government moneys to the extent of $50,000,- 000,000. ‘This is all very well, but there is nothing in the bill which tells what the money is to be spent for. It simply appro- priates the sum specified. Are we to understand that it is to be devoted to the purchase of tan sneakers for tennis playing Congressmen? If so, we are against it.” On the other hand, we have the Old Orchard Mouse-N. (Independent Hindoo) which believes that “it is a good t while the Burlington Boll-Weevil-Intelligencer (Eastern Stand- ard lime) avers that “it is a bad bil “It has its good and bad points,” maintains the Old Lyme Opium-Republican (Bap- tist) taking the other side of the fence from the Pepperhill Grunt (cheers and laughter) which asserts that “it has neither good nor bad points.” “Pretty fair” is the opinion of Methuen Recorder-Placket, although the Ossining Home N. reasons that “fifty billions is a pretty large sum of money for one little boy.” CAN MAN LIVE UNDER WATER?—This age-old question is partially answered by Rabindranath Gupto in the March issue of the Weekly Punjabber of Harput (India). His answer is, in effect, “No.” He goes on: “At Dunbo last summer I completed my researches, coming, quite by chance on the solution as I was sitting on the raft at the bathing-beach. My little seven-year-old boy, with his wife, were with me, and in a spirit of fun, he pushed me off into the water. There was immediately. noticeable a general tightening of the throat muscles, an inundation of the larynx followed by local bubblings, and what amounted practically to a saturated solution of the entire system. This was followed by suspended animation lasting until dinner was announced.” On the other hand, in a letter to the Delhi Dehlo (Burmat), Jaisint Rinso, Jolly Good Fellow of the University of Delhi, denies categorically the claims of Gupto that man ¢an not live under water. So there you are. TOPICS IN BRIEF Coxores (8. €. has taken the “high” out of “tariff.°—Columbia rel catch off Newfoundland banks. cinnati (Ohio) Trombone. Rerory shows record cl Better luck next time.— Tine doesn’t seem to be anything left for the Bolsheviki to wreck except their whiskers—Boston (Vermont) Earmuf. Is the olden day: : naval commanders used to say: “Don’t give up the ship!” ow they say: “Here comes the bride!” —Dayton (Ohio) Free Crutch. AN expert says that every child in the country has defective vision. Oh say can you see? : —Washington (D. C.) News-Courier-Press. Ir looks like the theatrical slump was here. Hot dog. —New York Times. You can fool some of the people all of the time, and you car fool all of the people some of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. —8. Jay Kaufman in New York Globe. Ir it is true that the price of eggs is coming down, it ought to make the hens pretty sore—Plainville Alligator-Democrat. Acconprnc to reports, the country needs rain, We have heard that report before, however. —Kennebunkport (Me.) Aspirin Herald. Wuen the World Series begins next month there ought not to be any trouble in picking up a little odd change for those of us who have kept our eyes open—The Churchman. comicbooks.com