Life — March 6, 1924 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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12 The Whole Truth! (Stenographic Report of the Examination of Dabney Dough- packer inCongressional Inquiry) Q DID you or did you not ° receive exclusive rights he National Borax Reserves Tureen Mountain? 1. I'l say I did Q. From whom did you get these rights? 1. From Webster Jay Ap- Q. Who is Webster Jay Ap- onsideratior 1. Nothing at QO. What happ I made him a loan of a million Q. What for I knew he'd be a when he had it Q. How did you give him this meney 1. Ina goli Q. Why ina 1. It was the would hold a full five Q. Why didn’t yor ag | had that of money cels 1 wanted him to get the money the same year Q. What did he wa of money for? at this huge sum A, He was giving a house party and had to buy a case of synthetic gin Q. Isn't it true that you gave him this money in payment for the borax one old fr Q. What established this friendship 1, We were soya b gether in Massachusetts as boys. Onec helping another an hunters. to a soya bean hunter always a soya bean hunter. There are very few left Q. What 1. No. Bean hu Q. But why - sk f soya bean hunter give an- other soya bean hunter a mil- lion dollars? 1.1 felt sorry for him He always had tough tuck When gether I always got all the be we went hunting to- nS. Q. In other words it was with him a case of having no. be 1. You Q. When was he to pay you back this aid a mouthful million dollars 1 It might be for years and might be forever Q. You mean to tell this commit that you let a friend have a cool nm dollars with no definite understar about paying it back? A, Sure. \ me? When I'm feeling right I g away twice that without noticing it Q. How are you feeling to-day Cuairman (sternly) twenty question for myself H. 1. Phillips Id you lay down your tee nil t's a million bucks to Recess { minutes while I settle that life Our we Capital and Labor WHEN Capital wore silk hats, whiskers, White waistcoats cuffs and spats And flouri . we knew, ned —_gold-topped cay Beyond all question, who was who. When Lab And denim overalls, perhaps, And did not ape the idle rich posed in paper caps One likewise gathered which was which. OW Economists agrec That Tweedledum is Tweedle dee; orld is sadly out of plumb, And Tweedledee is Tweedledum For, dr And trebly To live wr ¢ While Intent to get the lor Contrives t rd for small returns xed on what he earns precisely like his neighbor, apital laments, “That's labor ! since the worker everywhere, lion's share, » skim the cream and lap it all, Exultant 1 or laughs, “That's cap- ital! Arthur Guiterman The New-Voes are Always TH in the Limelight New-Voes are always in the limelight It’s turned on them wherever they go. And they Imost everywhere They always have the best table “COME INSIDE” at the latest cabaret And. of course, their bex at. the And fr for every Opera, row seats musical comedy in town. And their pictures in the We are always reading about papers every day. their entertaining at lunch Or at dinner and the theatre. Or at the races. Or at a small dance. (A small dance of several th nd.) And we are always being told of their dashing off to Europe. Or returning from China, Or spending the summer here. Or the winter there. You simply can’t help hear- ing about the New-Voes. They're always in the lime- light. It's turned on them wherever they go. C. G. S$, comicbooks.com