Life — August 30, 1923 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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“While there is Publi: LIFE PUBLISH4NG ‘COME Life there's Hope” ished b NY Le Roy Miter, Sec’y and Treas, 98 Madison Avenue, New York English Offices, Rolls Hous Government by the President, the §$ tary of War, two mem- bers of the Supreme Court, the Speaker of the House, the Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate, and by the usual num- eral other members of Congress, hopes very much that she and the rest of New anthracite to acquire it. her of tngland will get some for next winter, and leave no effort untried to And_ she to hope that her desires will be accom- plished. iction that, most confidently imputed to the new President, is that New England ought to have anthracite coal. That is all right. New England ought to get hard coal if anyone does, and it is high time she knew where her winter supply is comin; and highly proper that the President should concern himself. It is known that if the mines shut down on Sep- tember first, failing agreement between the operators and miners, the Presi- dent will do all the law allows to get out some coal. This knowledge ought to be useful to help the miners and the operators to agree. If they do not, the prospect is that the Federal Government will take the mines and operate them, so we may have a Ruhr problem of our own, and even if we do not get anthracite coal we will be sure to get news. News? burn coal means has reason The con As yet, is from, Gracious! We have it to And such news! Columns of it about Germany, columns of it about France. Columns about England, Italy, Ru: and nearly all of it colored with politics as to facts, and misleading as to expectations. If we have a coal war in Pennsylvania with the Government active in it, we shall , Breams Bldgs., London, E. C. have the same sort of propaganda from there. There is a good deal just now to encourage the idea of giving this country back to the Indians ex cept, perhaps, California, which the Japanese would doubtless accept with thank That would least from responsibility for which possibly would follow our ex- ample and give itself back to some- body that had an ancient right to it. However, it is the end of summer. People that have not had their vaca- tions already are taking them, the fall is here with new invigorations, habit is strong and no doubt we will start again to work our problems out. relieve us at rope, really some of them The concerns of are Europe But urgent. are in a very anxious state indeed. Our travelers home and dis- charge their minds of very gloomy views. Mr. Smoot, who is a power in the Republican party, and very de- voted to the material welfare of the United States, believes that another war is breeding in Europe and does not like the prospect, and would be glad to have the United States exer- cise a helpful influence in the situa- tion, though he would probably object to any that could be devised. No who comes home brings optimistic views under his hat. Gov- ernment has changed in Germany and the mark has gone completely to pot. There is distress and low spirits there, and though in large measure they are home-made, there are possi bilities of an upset, the consequences of which cannot be measured. The news re- ports we get are full of contradictory propaganda, but out of it all one gathers undeniable assurance that Ger- many is in a very dangerous condition, come way one though there are those who see hope in the change from Cuno to Strese- mann. The present French policy has not run its course yet, notwithstand- ing it takes eighteen francs to buy a dollar. England has a million and a quarter unemployed receiving doles from the government and no imme- diate prospect of improvement in her revenues. Naturally she is taking thought for herself and, fejling to persuade the Government of France to any measure of cooperation, seems disposed to make a deal with Germany on her own hook if she can. Our travelers have watched these matters progress; our readers have followed them in the papers. They do not like them. Our administration has changed hands and one reads that our new President finds the greatest difficulty to win time and seclusion in which to think. It is given out that he will go on with all the Harding policies, but of course he needs to think a lot about these present problems and needs help to think straight. The gentlemen whose minds are engaged in making him a candidate for President can- not help him at all. His problem for the moment is not the presidential succession, but how to function President; what to do, if anything. both in foreign and domestic affairs. It seems really to have come to the point where the country wants some- thing done, wants the condition of Europe taken up as a matter that concerns us and some course of help fultiess planned and carried out. P~ FQ & SIDE motor as from politics, coal and car fatalities, the most in teresting news in the papers days is about the hold-ups and crimes of violence that go on all the time Very bad, indeed; but very interest ing! Almost every day somewhere. somebody is murdered and robbed by gunmen who get away in motor cars. There is an epidemic of these crimes They tell us they are committed by young men, amateurs mostly, who are dope fiends. They take heroin and be- come oblivious of all consequences and all fears. Something searching and fundamental has got to be done about these chaps. The police hereabouts seem to have abundantly the will to do it, but the rascals get away. E. S. Martin. nowa comicbooks.com