Life — May 15, 1924 — page 22: what you’re looking at

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“While there Publ LIFE PU Cartes Dawa Grosox, President t Rk. DEPEW at ninety, is n the with this world, as befits his cheerful spirit, He made a speech in Brooklyn on the night of his birth fears for and he years would day. He said he had no the present or the future, ught the next ninety see a peace among nations, J mutual helpfulness and revival of in dustry and commerce beyond anything he said, ever known. By the sacrifice of fifty million lives and the accumu lated treasures of a thousand years the world was made safe for democracy and Mr a grand ornament to two So it was Depew is a bully old man ar turies, and we hope he will te convince his contemporaries that mak demoe New good many x the world not too much like safe for safe for making gunmen. For a democ observers are quite scared of Jays and are not sure what Clare Sherida y now it is going for exampl to the World. that England is passing through a rev- olution, which no doubt is true enough to us. who writes from Europe is quite dismal, and says and speculates whether she will be any quicker than Russia in recovering from effects of it rather awful, but still it is a matter of Such a comparison sounds opinion whether Mrs. Sheridan is really a source of information or just a noise: Certainly she is a lively noise and ear, but when it comes Frank Simonds better greeable to th to information achieves the feat of producing in the reader the sensation that something ac tual has been communicated to him. All the world is now safe for democ- racy, Mr. Depew says, and France has democracy, but Mr. Simonds says she does not that is sad because it safe. Mr. Simonds seem says everybody in is Life the 1 by ISHING COMPANY Rov Mivure 'y and Treas. pe scems to yearn for peace except and that eager it as she s Germany Germany is not so because she collectors reparations hopes someho: beat the who want her bill, But has any to pay her in that effort, if indeed she such hope, she does not seem Whe her children are underfed there When the and likely to get much help. some of is sym French got in Ruhr mussed things up there, there was sympathy for the Ger mans who suffered evil consequences of that experiment wit ble for the at being responsi led to it many gets a fair offer or causes that if Ge repara. tions such as scems to have en de vised by the Dawes Commission a does not meet it in a proper spirit, one cannot think look for sympathy tt where she 1 tless it is Simonds’ impres H' IWEVER, Mr sions are only his impressions, and at Germany seem not Dawes and his misgivings to be shared by members of the Commission, who have home say the plan they helped to make means more to than even to the tax her rest of Europe is taxed. Germany Allies, since it does 1 more than the and does not require impairment of her ard of living. They have assumed, they say, that Germany will accept the plan and live up to it, and “every step nany so far indicates that the assumption is well founded.” So taken by Ger perhaps there may be an effective un: derstanding in Europe in spite of all of the correspondents Along back on_ the the Dawes Commission Hayes, the new Cardin: of millinery bri boat with came Dr. with the fin- ught into New same est line York this season. And what duties he 1, if indeed any one con- nected with the Port of New York was i must him must have f enough to collect: them remain a private matter nd Mr. Mellon, What Murphy's funeral in the wuclaci between with Char morning and the arrival of Cardinal Hayes in the riternoon, April 28 was a busy day for the authorities in our worshipful city. The newspapers make a good deal of the new Cardinal's garb, that being the ly thing about him that was. visibly changed at Rome, and. satisfaction is increased in many hearts by the con- that raiment so and Manhattan life Whether the Cardinal himself is pleased asess glorious abides with us again is available he decoration « with brocades and red frocks and hats, or would liefer them to the things not disclosed. leave movies, is ame = ~ have deme in this country W as is well known, but that does not mean that we have self-government ople find employment in governing know because they hold offices ; 1s. Sometimes we who they are at other times we know them because the newspapers lus. We knew that®Charley Murphy pretty much governed New York City d_fclt quite competent to govern the rest of the State and at times came pretty joing it. Murphy obtained this employment not by direct voice of near dh the people, but by the force of circum- stances, and when he died the other day there was pretty general agreement that he was a good hand at it and governed, if not ideally well, at least better than any Tammany boss that preceded him Mr. Murphy got very good notices, both the paid ones in the obituary columns and the voluntary tributes. He was re- sponsible for Hylan, and Hylan, though popular, is not regarded by thoughtful observers as an asset of the city, though gg New York Dem- ocratic and keeping Tammany in power as a means of keep’ here, he has been a. splendid success Murphy pretty He seemed to have a fairly correct Charles was a wise ruler idea of what the standard of expecta- tion was and as a rule he met it. He advertised so little that one can only judge his capacity in government by the results of his rule. The most impressive result is that he held his job for twenty- two years and died much regretted. E. S. 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