Life — November 24, 1921 — page 34: what you’re looking at

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The Only Baby in Indi You wouldn’t think, in an Indian city swarming with people and knee-deep in babies, that one extra infant would count! Yet Taj and her husband, Fagal Alahi, thought that Heaven shone only for them when the American doctor at the hospital told them that they were going to have a child, after eighteen long years of waiting. The whole town was agog. When Taj’s baby finally arrived she called it “The Gift of God.” . Here is an exquisite story, showing that no matter how many babies there are in the world, it is only your own that counts. Margaret Wilson, the author, lived in this very hospital in India where “The Gift of God” was born. In the December ASIA The American MAGAZINE on the Orient More than 60 Illustrations—8 pages of Special Photographs All the glorious countries of the East are brought to you vividly in the stories, articles and pictures published in Magazine. A Christmas Gift That Will Distinguish Your Giving When you are looking for a Christmas gift—new and unusual—that will give renewed pleasure, send a subscription to ASIA. Special offer of fourteen months for the annual subscription price of $3.50. ARMS LIMITATION CONFERENCE William Hard has gone to the root of possible trouble among Japan, the United States and the European Powers. It is the disorganization of finance in China. . And he has found a real solution. An American-Chinese bank has blazed the trail. Read William Hard’s articles in ASIA. SPECIAL OFFER Five Months for One Dollar Se, ae 2N weeks, agian? Seed ait te this | They Never Lie VERY expert who has some pet theory to advance produces bushels of statistics to support it. Contradic- tions mean nothing to the statistician. He follows his figures wherever they lead. If they lead him into a ditch, he smiles and calls it the Grand Canyon. His figures show that in fifty years population will reach a point where half the people will starve to death. This does not embarrass him, for he knows that if race suicide increases as it has increased in the last ten years, the race will be extinct at the same time half | of it is starving. He tells us that the rate of increase in the number of | millionaires in this country indicates that in one hundred years all of us will be millionaires. he advises that the economic law is such that the average wealth in this country can never exceed eighty-five dollars per capita. . The expert tells us that black is white and yellow green. His figures prove it. If we dispute his word he responds by showing us that the race is growing blind. Let the Chemists Loose on War OW remarkably some minds do work! Very good minds, too! Those minds, for instance, that want rules adopted to make war more gentle and polite! Sir Edward Thorpe, the president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, is an ex- ample. Sir Edward is scandalized at chemi- | cal warfare. He thinks the activities of scientific men, in adding terror and destructiveness to war, are very bad for science. He seems greatly con- cerned about it and is counted among Englishmen who want the Washington Conference to abolish chemical warfare. Now is not that peculiar? Is it pos- sible that these learned gentlemen do not see that while chemical warfare may be bad for science, it is still worse | for war? The trouble with chemical warfare is not chemicals, but war. The thing to eliminate is not chemistry, but warfare. If the chemists can make warfare so horrible that the nations | can’t stand it, that is an immense scr- | vice to mankind. It is because that service has already been so consider- ably accomplished, and war is already | more destructive than our fragile world can stand, that sensible people begin to think they see its finish. The more de- structive the chemists can make it—the more abominable, malodorous, tortur- ing and fatal, the better the chance is | that suffering human creatures will make an effectual effort to get rid of it. Tie no strings to the chemists! Let them do their damnedest ! Rs In the same breath, | SOUTH AMERICA Our exceptionally well-planned Cruise. Tour to this intensely interesting field for pleasure teavel will leave New York Feb. 4, 1922. The itinerary includes calls at HAVANA, — PANAMA CANAL ~the historic cities of PERU & CHILE—ARGEN- TINE, URUGUAY & BRAZIL, arriy. ing back in New York — via the East Coast Route—on April 3d. All Information and Literature on Request THOS. COOK & SON 245 Broadway, New York Chicago Philadelphia Boston, San Francisco Los Angeles Montreal Toronto Vancouver 150 Offices Throughout the World Song of the Snob [% just a bit fed up, old chappie, On being so dernier cri That each one I meet is unhappy Because he can never be me. I face without shrinking the bother of thinking, To see if I’m able to tell | What is it makes people so common— And me so uncommonly swell! I'm nothing at all of a bragger; I'd have no objections, you see, To having a few folks as swagger As I must continue to be. And Toms, Dicks and Harrys, Maes, Shirleys and Carries Might all be genteel, quite as well As having these people so common And me so uncommonly swell. Yet, somehow, these things are pro- vided ; And meekly and modestly we— | The cream and the crust—have abided The reverence paid as our fee For birth and tradition and wealth and position Must rule; or, too gruesome to tell, The mob might think J was the com- mon, And they the uncommonly swell! 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