Life — May 8, 1924 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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MAY &, 1923 “While there is Life there's Hope” Published by LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY Castes Dana Giason, President 398 Madison Avenue English Offices, Rolls H HE dog doc tor who ex Pader ewski’s dog said that because he had had too much soft enough dog biscuit, his teeth were al most gone, and he could no longer cat food and not such food as was good for him. The news about that dog was the piece in the paper that no one skipped, so probably all the Senators read it and may have been influenced by it to feel when they got the Japanese letter that it was up to them to show that they had not had too much soft food and their teeth were not gone yet. But on does not notice anywhere expressions Ambassador's of pride or undue satisfaction in th ver the Japanese exclus law. The exclusion has to be, but it proceedings is hard to find in the manner of it any advantage to anybody that deserves ad vantage. It does not seem as though the Sen- ate had learned the lesson of the war. When Ramsay MacDonald succeeded Lord Curzon in charge of British af- fairs he put aside the old-style diplomacy and began to talk man-to-man to Poin- He talked gently but with the andor, telling France how Eng: ught and felt about the things caré utmost land t that France was doing, including her big military establishment and all that The new. sults. tyle discourse had good re- It got negotiations out of the rut, They ceased to be exchanges be: tween lawyers and became communica tions between men. But at Washington, when the Japanese Ambassador sent his remonstrance to Mr. Hughes and talked about “gravest consequences” and Mr. Hughes sent it to the S every thing proceeded in the old-style manner. Nobody stepped around the corner to warn the Ambassador that he had. Le Rov Mitter New York Bligs., London, E. ( technical la age which would make There about it at all trouble. talk just an old fashioned show of dignity and who's was no man-to-man afraid ?—with resulting consequences of irritation that seem wholly unnecessary The Japanese scem to have an inferi ority complex which makes them mor bidly sensitive. But no one who has sense thinks of them as an inferior race As immigrants to these States they can. ot be assimilated. great. But of admiration and The racial difference lack them is too there is no respect for as a people. HE new Immigration Law is going to shut the door pretty tight. We won't like i much. The idea of the United States as a refuge has been popular that we were of some use in this world. That is an agreeable feeling. If we build walls around the country we shall lose it very It has helped to make us feel However, in the present state of human affairs it may be imports that the United States should not take on a greater load of unattached human ity than it can carry. Happily it has occurred to no one yet to put the Immigration Law into the Constitution, so whatever is to be d can be undone soon if necessary T is accepted now by the Republicans that Mr. Coolidge will be their candi- date and suggestions come in about the rest of the ticket. General Charles Dawes, who has lately done a job in Zurope, is proposed as a proper run- ning-mate for Mr. Coolidge. Also Gen- eral Pershing. Neither of these Gen- erals likely to seems welcome the proposal. General Pershing has an ex cellent. job, which he likes and Why should he give it up ative which likes him for a spe employment like the Vice And why active business man like General Dawes Presidency ? should an care to subside into office ? r least active great The man to run for Vice dent is somebody that is in the profes- sion of politics, committed to that call ing and willing to take it as it comes When Mr. Coolidge became Vice-Prest- dent he was working for small pay for the State of ina Presi Massachusetts and livi aple of rooms in Young's Hotel in Boston. For him the Vice-Presi- dency was a better job than the had. So it should be for any one who ne he aD a OnQ a: THe Democratic Convention is com- ing to New York, but the Methodist Conference has gone to The ringheld seems satisfied with this allotment. says its city is Springfield. honored “soon to be the center of one of the greates, and most im- portant serics of sessions in the history No- about Folks do so positively to of religion and human welfare has said as much as that the Democratic not yet human welfare body Convention. that They think of it more as a sporting event. They want to be relate in town when the Convention is going on. They wonder whether the facilities for keeping the delegates dry will be They hope that tickets to the show are not going to be too expensive Sut Springfield is prospect. Two adequate. satisfied w its thousand people will come to its conference and stay all through it. Twice as many more will for a shorter time. cupy eight hundred rooms besides what the hotels have and they are expected to spend a million and a half dollars. stay They will oc- F you read the headlines in the papers you will be sure that the Reparations proposal will fail. The headlines have new reasons every day for that opinion. But pay no attention to headlines! Their business is sensation. They are professional screechers whose job is to yell. Ostensibly they summarize the news they head. Actually they usually falsify it S. Martin comicbooks.com