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This page mixes political commentary with social satire. The main text discusses Colonel House (Woodrow Wilson's advisor) observing global power shifts—Lenin dead, Trotsky out, various European leaders rising (Mussolini, Kemal, Venizelos). The author notes ironically that America's Senate Foreign Relations Committee remains "the only strong citadel of the old order left." The commentary then pivots to Edward Bok's peace plan efforts and the upcoming 1924 Democratic Convention in New York. The satire targets New Yorkers' stereotypes about themselves—outsiders view the city as "a kind of modern Babylon, full of sin, bootleggers, wild shows, hold-up men and swindlers." The author suggests hosting the convention might improve the city's reputation by showing delegates that New York contains ordinary working people, not just criminals and vice. The small illustrations appear humorous but are difficult to interpret clearly from reproduction quality.

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here is Life there's He BLISHING COMPANY House Co! ONEL “HOUSE says a_ liberal wave thr world and he is runnir ugh the British bor- Liber He sces power changing hands ; cerns shifting to the | party, French concerns about to. shiit from Poincaré to Briand or some one else. With in charge England both there France and forward-lookers agreement about the Colonel When he ought to be reor ganization of House thinks thi Europe, and will be lifts his hat perhaps | the air he feels liberal wave, which he thinks started December Yes. There does seem to be am There are hands again in dead 1 Trotzky out, the Turkey has Kemal has Mussolini Spain has Venizelos back. It's ketting to be that the Foreign Relations ment signs of power Lenin is Papers say Italy Rivera Greece has g Committee of our Senate is about the only strong citadel of the old order left. And that has to When the hampions run ast even stand Senatorial some now somebody clean hands, a mind that still functions Moses Rok, they cannot put over anything very rough, What the have accomplished up to this writing with Mr. Bok is to present his peace ! plan with a large and valuable Reed and in their tilt: with Senate investigators slice of headline advertisement To be they sure, have not and if down in. the tried thumbscrews yet. hey keep a rack, or hot irons basement of the Capitol, have not they produced them at this Avenue Brean writ but the they Mr. Bok the he for the more practice on better it seems likely to enterprise with which he is concerned. No very gross outrage on liberty of speech or action or even ex penditure can be perpetrated by a com mittee that holds open sessions that are the newspapers. Suppres- stories about the transfer overnment oil lands to private that the house administra Political is something for interests suggest tion needs to clean housecleaning which President’ Harding was about as ill apted as President Taft. Possibly President Coolidge may show himself a better hand at it. Tf he finds it polit ically necessary, doubtless he will start in with broom, mop and bouncers NEW YORK scems pleased with the idea of having the Democratic Con It will come late in June The prospect is not displeas hotels. The lation anticipates entertainment from it vention here the 24th ing to the resident popu and some people, pinched by rents, have of subletting their houses or apartments to the visiting __politi- cians. A that one of the eld at one o suggestion session minating convention shall be the ball grounds seems somewhat extravagant, but if the dele New York will doubtless like the show and gladly pay gates do not object to see it Perhaps it will really do some good to bring representative men in consid- erable numbers from all parts of the country to this city and keep them here a week. People who do not know New York and seldom or never sce it, get very curious They seem to think 1 dof Babylon, shows, he modern iull of sin, bootleggers, wild id-up men and swindlers. In- as the morals and the deed, they look mit natural enemy of the economic interests of the rest of the country Possibly if the delegates spend a week they will gain an impression that New York is beings rather hard work of here after all inhabited by man making death to live, xed te and assimilate a trying in an eff » teach huge foreign-born population, and de serving a good deal better of the rest of the weather is good and the delegates find it ple that will help matters. If the arrangements for them are such that country an they get. If the sant, r stay here does not necessitate too heavy a tax on their pockets, that will be very help V HEN lovely woman stoops to folly and finds too late that men betray she sometimes brings up at Ellis Island. Mary She came; she So it happened the other day Brennon, an Irish girl was held up, ordered deported on the Baltic, dicd of pneumonia on that ship on November 16, and was buried at sea Her baby So it died too. happened to Ruth Gra from Gothenburg, Sweden, to her sister at Moline, Illinois. that Ruth had a baby liusband, the her way Seeing coming and no United States ordered her inds. But at Ellis Island she caught influenza, br deported on moral g chitis, umonia and other diseases, and died in the hospital th haby boy aving a American born, who can stay in this blessed refuge of the oppressed. His aunt will take him to Moline. The hospitalities of our country are not as all nd Ellis Island is not all that one could embracing as they might be. wish for as a health resort, but cer- tainly the United States is 100 per cent. moral. If ercature mere human might ‘well fear that its morality would presently But to damn a natioa is a heavy job ard takes a long time was a with a soul, one get it damned comicbooks.com