Life — October 19, 1922 — page 3: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

Confession H, listen to a canticle that’s sadly unromantical ! We're going to have a session for confession of our sins; I do not wish to burden it with orna- ment pedantical— Oh, bitter is the plant I cull, but here the thing begins: The laity is liable to quite unjusti- able 1 ictions, notions whimsically in regard ts’ inspiration—and I fear it’s indeniable very last to tie a bull outside would be the bard! verage mentality impels the generality iink that inspiration for crea- tion of a song seize the poet suddenly, like mumps or immortality— public, in reality, as usual, is wrong. m is empirical. Straightfor- ward or satirical, odiously transcendent, or re- splendent with romance, eli you that the practical is what creates the lyrical ; sn’t any miracle—it’s common- place as Pants! A tour de force Parnassian it is pure, perhaps, or passionate— haps it is religious, or pro- digious, or divine; this is what inspires the bard to go ahead and fashion it— queries, “Is there cash in it?” before he writes a line! T. R. Masterpieces! Mastercrafts- men make and fit Keen Kutter knife parts so exactly they seem rown together. The finished knives reflect this workmanship. Simmons Hardware Company EN KUTTER . Save Money With KARDEX TONAWANDA.N.Y. Dividend checks from the American Telephone and Telegraph Company are received quarterly by more than 200,000 telephone users. Owned by those it serves Less than fifty years ago an applica- tion was made for a patent which created the possibility of speech be- tween distant points. It was the culmination of years of study, re- search and experiment. It suggested a new aid in commerce and domestic life; a new tie to bind the people to- gether. But it was only a suggestion —a dream. To make that dream come true re- quired the creation of an organization unlike any other. It demanded a kind of scientific knowledge that was yet to be formulated, as well as a type of equipment still to be devised. And it necessitated the financial and moral support of many communities. Out of this situation grew the Bell System, bringing not only a new public service, but a new democracy of public service ownership—a democracy that now has more than 200,000 stockholders—a partnership of the rank and file who use telephone service and the rank and file em- ployed in that service. The American Telephone and Telegraph Company exists to serve the people and is owned directly by the people—con- trolled not by one, but controlled by all. Evolution is going on. Each year the ownership is more widespread. Each year the various processes of the service are performed more effi- ciently and economically. Each year new lines and extensions are con- structed. The responsibility of the management is to provide the best possible telephone service at the lowest possible cost and to provide new facilities with the growth of de- mand. To do these things requires equipment, men and money. The rates must furnish a net re- turn sufficient to induce you to be- come a stockholder, or to retain your stock if you already are one; after paying wages sufficient to attract and retain capable men and women in the service. They must adequately sup- port and extend the structure of communication. These are considerations for the interest of all—public, stockholders, employees. “BELL SYSTEM” AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY AND ASSOCIATED COMPANIES One Policy, One System, Universal Service, and all directed toward Better Service The Seven Ages of a Public Statue . It is unveiled. It is referred to by the art critics as “an authentic embodi- ment of the new spirit in sculp- ture.” A particularly daring art critic inquires (giving due credit to Kipling): “It’s pretty, but is it art?” 4. A general agreement is reached (after a heated and prolonged discussion) that it is not art. It is good for a laugh when mentioned in a vaudeville act. . Citizens write to the editor de- manding that it be removed as an eyesore. The original committee in charge finally gets the statue paid for. S. K. comicbooks.com