Life — February 15, 1923 — page 35: what you’re looking at

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A Child’s Garden of Re- verses (Modernizing R. L. S.) Bed in Winter In summer I sit up at night, For daylight-saving makes it light. In winter, though it seems a crime, I go to bed by standard time. I have to go to bed and hear A broadeast story, loud and queer, The tooth-brush lecture for the day, And many prunes who sing and play. it not seem pretty tough, outgrown this bedtime 0 wide-awake and giggly, fed up with Uncle Wiggly? The Milk Can The pretty can all blue and white Holds calorie material: I punch two holes with all my might, For cream upon my cereal. Whole Duty of Children A child should always say what's smart, And know the comic strips by heart, And get the things he likes at table, At least as far as he is able. Looking Forward When I grow up and smoke cigars, I'll have all kinds of motor cars, And tell pedestrians I meet Not to occupy the street. C.R.S. The Bell System's transcontinental telephone line crossing Nevada Hi ighways Necessity made the United States a nation of pioneers. Development came to us only by conquering the wilderness. For a hundred and fifty years we have been clearing farms and rearing communities where desolation was—bridg- ing rivers and making roads —reaching out, step by step, to civilize three million square miles of country. One of the results has been the scattering of families in many places— the separation of parents and children, of brother and brother, by great distances. To-day, millions of us live and make our success in places far from those where we were born, and even those of us who have remained in one place have relatives and friends who are scattered in other parts. Again, business and in- FPR EY x toward Better Service of Speech dustry have done what fami- lies have done—they have spread to many places and made connections in still other places. Obviously, this has pro- moted a national community of every-day interest which characterizes no other nation in the world. It has given the people of the whole country the same kind, if not the same degree, of interest in one an- other as the people of a single city have. It has made neces- sary facilities of national com- munication which keep us in touch with the whole coun- try and not just our own part of it. The only telephone service which can fully serve the needs of the nation is one which brings all of the people within sound of one another's voices. “BELL SYSTEM” iy \\ AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY AND ASSOCIATED COMPANIES One Policy, One System, Universal Service, and all directed Friends I Never Take Motor- ing Twice Tue friend who asks me to stop every few miles so he can light up. The friend who leans over with one arm around me so he can talk better. The friend who takes up the whole trip describing scenery elsewhere. The friend who stiffens when thére’s a car ahead. The friend who wants to be sure I know the way back. The friend who tells me what his little Lizzie can do. The friend who always puts his hand out too late. The friend who asks for a ride. EB, JuK. First Doctor: I don’t favor this “Safety First” movement at all. Seconp Doctor: Neither do I. It looks to me like a combination in restraint of trade. comicbooks.com