Life — January 24, 1924 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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JANUARY LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY ci S98 Madi is 1 I T is encouraging to see the isolationists rise up like one man with jeers and execrations to beat the There something in it Bok Peace I ition would not take it so Really it is very interesting Mr. Bok has done the job with skill. By he showed earnestness of 1} offering a_ bij pose and a belief that he c accomplish. something He also or seemed to get pression of popular intellig He did not pick a good man to make a* good plan and then try to. put it over hand got twenty-two thousand and but by ing his invitation so somely he odd ela peace yrated su: stions world best onc method of f which the And _ his selectors was to be selected. lecting his He got a committee of very well-known people headed by John W. Davis jury to try the They a committee of with House and Mr was very astut select a plans selected seven Colonel Root on it Harbord, Miss Pendle ton, Dean Pound, William Allen White and Brand Whitlock, all known and respected except perhaps William Allen White discourse ; General well when he makes-breaks in and even he is respected most of the time and is very popular Well, the jury picked the plan which everybody knows now. It said we ought to join the World Court right away, and that we ought to co: with the League of about by operate but without any obligation to submit to the League any American question, or to use force of any kind, or to be bound in any way by the Treaty of Versailles. On those terms the plan proposes that vuld extend its pres with the League and cur government “ ent co-operation n Ave Breams Bldgs., 1 se, New Yor Assem proposes participation in. its and neil.” But the production and the pl s only the beginning real job is to get a vote on it from 3 many voters as possible and try to dis- cover if that majority of seven’ mil isolation 1920, lions by which the s say the Treaty was beaten in still exists. There will doubtless be an interest and recordin vote machinery for eliciting will be well handled. to that. He is a h things. He knows about publicity, knows how to and 1 see past-m. in doing s distribute ideas and knows how to dis- cover what people are thinking about His present exploit is a remarkable ex periment in the use of advertisement in polities. Lire last week that It was said in the great is politics at present was foreign affairs, and that if only at the right time the right man s! id bring the right torch, a flame might be issue that not even the It may be that torch. e well started on that Senate could put out Bok is the with y he has picked the be talked over in the man next ten months, and almost everythi hs. To force into iseussion, which pretty much all the wish to limit to this avoided topic of will be really a remarkable the next five me politicians domestic matters, foreign affairs achievement, and ND so Mr. Cyrus Curtis of Phila- delphia has bought the E: Post! Perhaps that is as good as any- thing that could be expected to happen it, though it is trying at first, as it ways is to have an old friend run over by the cars, or a paper one is used to changed in its voice, sentiments and features When Mr about five Villard years ago to part with the yund it expedient Post, he sold it to Mr, Lamont, who ks of read them, but not was used to. the newspapers and accustomed to expert their supposed that so old a paper as the Post must habits of self-support n't, but that ate up about diet, and possibly have confirmed Finding that it h was an expensive guest money, he sold it in due time to a com- pany of gentlemen concerned to have it > on as a newspaper representative of respectability and intel! New York, This company of rescuers have now sold it to Mr. with a large experience in hatching out ence i Curtis, gentleman dinosaur’s eggs, who knows all about the appetites of newspapers and other pe- dict is good for riodicals and w them and how they can, with luck, be made to pay their keep and someth ever Good luck then to Mr dauntless spirit, who has nc Curtis, a feared to rush in where angels stubbed their toes If he really thinks, as reported, that an made in Philadelphia is for New York, he to learn, but if editorial pag just as good may have something so he will learn it 6 NE may profitably remark in read ing the newspapers that the way of the transgressor The and law-breal are The thugs and law men continues to very, very hard stories of rob- bery, violence usually tragic bank and all that lot do not have a good time. breakers robbers, hold-up Young men who are thinking of engag zs that they follow are warned not to do it. If they they will surely be sorry. Not only a bad end but they ing in the cal hereby will they come will have a miserable time on the way Misbehaving have the Unless they can discover how to be good and reflect their their conduct, the outlook for them is bad and no amount nations them. same prospect ahead o discovery in of armament or wealth will cure it E, S. Ma comicbooks.com