Life — May 7, 1925 — page 35: what you’re looking at

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Precept Upon Precept Stor a moment, It's all right to be you can; but Live, like life, has its serious side. In this age of irreligion and unfaith it rather heartens some of us to see a ble exemplification of the Christian tues, a visible proof that the teach- ripture can be employed as the rule of life. fellows. funny, if The man who has thus put religion into practice is the Rev. Father Thomas P. Hayden, sometime chaplain of the Atlanta penitentiary. With the warden of the penitentiary and certain others, Father Hayden conspired to shake down some convicted bootleggers for ten sand dollars, giving them in return ft jobs while they served their terms le penitentiary. For is it not writ- , “Make to yourselves friends of « Mammon of unrighteousness”? The warden seems to have managed things crudely, however. The story got abroad. Thereupon Father Hayden be- thought himself of the Christian virtues of repentance and confession. He squealed on his confederates, and ac- Unhealthy guns denoted | by tenderness and bleeding | UNE soil kills the best of wheat. Un- healthy gumskill the best of teeth To keep the teeth sound keep the gums well Wah for ender and ise symptom of Pyore thea, which afflicts four out of five peo- over forty. debodpaswelase teeth. Not only do the srecedeand cause bodys vitality and cause many serious ils. To avoid Pyorrhea, visit your dentist fre: ) quenily for tooth and gum inspection. use Forhan’s For the Gums. Forhan's For the | PREscRiPrioN OF TH pe fede = {| DENTAL PRO teeth white and © What a whale of a difference just a few cents make cordingly goes free, while the warden spends a year and a half in his own penitentiary. The warden hardened his heart like Pharaoh and wouldn't squeal ; but Father Hayden remembered that even the eleventh hour is not too late, and that there is more joy in Heaven over one sinner that repenteth than over ninety-and-nine just men that need no repentance. E. D. Big Business Cf It Were Conducted on Moving Picture Principles.) Mr. Grunrus, president of the con- crete collar-button trust, conceives the idea of a new factory. From his New York office he calls Mr. Whoosis, chairman of the board of directors, Hollywood, Calif., to discuss the project. After running up toll bills of $10,862.25, the decision to go ahead is finally reached. Mr. Whiffle, architect of the moment, is called in to prepare the plans, despite the fact that he specializes in country homes, and is given a fee of $75,000. When the plans are completed, Grum- pus turns them over to a $30-a-week draughtsman for revision that will fit them for a collar-button factory. The factory is built by day labor under direction of a temperamental superintendent, who resigns during a disagreement with Grumpus over a trifle of structural detail His successor decides that the first and third stories won't do and tears them down. When the factory is completed Grum- pus finds that the public is turning from concrete collar-buttons. Accordingly a cabinet officer is hired to put the indus- try back on its feet. E,W. T. comicbooks.com