Life — March 6, 1924 — page 9: what you’re looking at

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We Want Doheny! (An Editorial Plea for Efficient Government) N IW is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party. Now is the time for all— This is a presidential year, and the citizens of our broad nd have the chance to select a new administra govern them nd to misappropriate their funds. Shall we neglect the opportunities which were handed down to us by our illustrious forebears? . no (1000 times) When we select ¢ him designate as Cabinet ministers th t November, let us have r President ne jose men who will run 1 the the country anyway, We want Doheny and Sinclair ar rest. Let us send them into the Capitol through the front door, instead of forcing them to sneak in thre gh the rear entrance as they have done in the past Many of our most powerful Government officials have been mere agents—placed in office for purposes of salesman ship on a commission basis, We need closer co-operatic between producer and consumer Let us DO AWAY WITH THE MIDDLEMAN! He merely clogs the Government machinery and con plicates the red-tape. If we must be gypped. forward and workmanlike m We want Dc tus be gypped in a nner Impolite Society OLITENESS is a dangerous thir to fool with. If you aren't car gy for the ordinary man 1 how 12 Use somebody is certainly going to take it personally and or else that y you are trying to get money out of him are from the backwoods, where people don't know any better But with many people politeness doesn’t mean this at all with many people it is an affliction. While they were ing about something else it grew on them and nobody the decency to warn them until it was too late. The « keep f deal only with persons in the same predicament; once polite ig misunderstood is te m bei way these people ca ness has got you, there's not much you can do about it The time to correct it is, of course, when ye are young If the child is normal, he can be taken in hand as late in life as ten or twelve and rid of the habit, but the earlier the training is begun the more certain is the cure. Indeed, the average child, if left to himself, won't contract politeness at all, which fact must serve to strengthen our faith in the innate wisdom of the human mind Of course, if the child is goi person or a genius, the problem of politeness needn't bother most anything and get away with it. But the wisest course is to have every child trained in rude to be an established him; he can d ness; he is then on the safe side in case he shouldn't be come an established person or a genius. In fact, if he can ity with rudeness, there's no reas acquire enough dexte 1 why he shouldn't become established or be mistaken for a ness genius, and after that he may with impunity put rv Let the lize that rudeness is his stoutest staff; politeness he can sung man on his way through the w« re always take up when he is old. ry Fle “Yr: Freddy Frog: vwew! THAT WAS A I were a Congressmar I would never wear a soft black I would never wear a frock coat I would practice it, t Ditto whichever way I felt it Pr It’s disheartening to think I can't ever hit tion, ESCAPE. THI comicbooks.com