Life — February 14, 1924 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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PEBRUARY 14 While LIFE Cuantes Dawa Giason, President NEW YORK newspaper head line reads; “Conven tion Here I Governor of Carolina.” To be sure! We all remember” the leases North Governor of North Carolina and his 1 historic observation to the Governor of vuth Of course it pleases ald come to Carolina him that the convention s New York Another headline reads Park Site Art Center Just as usual! “Many Fight In view of the reg ularity and frequency of attempts to run buildings into Central Park, would it not be a great saving of effort to main tain a small standing army consisting of a few gencrals and a corps of ste aphers to defend the Park from all assaults? To improvise defenders two or three times a year seems a waste of cnergy. Preparedness is better fortune What he needed above all things was a chance could do, His first opportunity to Con He did well by it and it did well It showed him as a man who ow as to se oil leases; continues to favor Mr. Coolidge to show what he was his message gress by him. knew his mind about some things and Wwas willing to impart his views about them in a few plain words, Now comes another grand opportunity. It has been brought to his notice that the adminis- tration of which he is now the head has been corrupt in certain important par- What Jal since President Grant's him treatment saying that it will ticulars. seems be the worst Cabinet sea time has The Democrats are rive the next clection to them, and per- come to The more reason to deal nd effectively. Mr haps it will with it_promp is Life there's Hope Publishe PUBLISHIN( by COMPANY ¥ Mitten, Secty and Tre Dlame for it. It another Coolidge is not to merely gives him chance to show how he does things. The blame for it does attach, how ever, to. the Republican Party, and when the Democrats get out their long bill of particulars to sustain the charge that the Republican Party is unfit to gov ern the country, the oil leases and the circumstances attending them will be one of the items. The great charge, how ever, will be that when the Republicans took hold, the United States had the reatest prestige in all its history, in the three years in which it has Republican that prestige has steadily declined. If the and dia administration, evidence sub: States might services for conclude on the that the United done invaluable voters mitted have Europe to its own advantage and that of all humanity, and could not tackle the job because Republican statesmen pre Democ europa ao reP: vented, they may vote the ats in. from a mental newspapers is to variation current read a few chapters of the Apocalypse When you that remarkable documen| beasts, the various read in about the colored horses, the seals and the dragons, and the lurid intimations of hell work ing loose, the chance of anybody's get ting to any comfortable final abode seems very, very slim, It is interesting reading, the Apocalypse, but bewildering The current spiritist. books are very conservative documents compared with it, but the newspapers and the maga zines that deal with current affairs just now run. the apo narrative pretty hard yptic The first piece in the Atlantic Monthly for February is about the con- temporary provision of airships and ex We all know about this plosives in France article French seem to it in a general way, but gives particulars. The be providing themsel es with the con- veniences for complete effacement. ¢ the features from the face of Europe at any time France find it ex- Naturally all the may pedient neighbors are gett scared and beginning to spend money that they cannot spare in to beat the French bluff. We know why France is doing it and we know she has a case, but that does not fact that the energies and the money of Europe are turning trying dispose of the away from repairing the damage done by the late war to preparation for another and more destructive war still to come. Every sane person would ad mit that that is the most awful foolish- ness conceivable, The merit of it is that it is producing a new situation which will compel a solution of the problems of Europe Tve been jm Fair Bingen RACTICALLY no one, not even the airplane manufacturers and the war. France She wants chemists, wants another certainly does not want one rity. But there will be a war unless it can be averted by an infusion of com aropean affairs. We there—the trying to That is all we that is Premier in Eng and it is mon sense into E have some good men over Dawes Commission—who are facilitate that infusion. ig about it, but But the also do what he can are de some- thing new land will possible that a shake-down in French politics will help him, The burning question of the day, transcending all questions of domestic how to save Europe from It may be done through Nations, or politics. is another war perhaps United must be the League of through the contrivance States of Europe. It if the babies of this genera- It will not be done until a sufficient number of done somchow tion are to live their lives out the inhabitants of the world are scared blue at the prospect of the consequences of not doing it, but the materials for ing them are as to renew hope of action. ELS. accumulating so fast Martin, comicbooks.com