Life — May 14, 1925 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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OMEBODY has just been chosen Mayor of Herrin, Ill, proving that the age of chivalry is not dead. aL The election of Von Hixpensurc as President of Germany is generally at- tributed to the sentimental devotion of German women to the glorious memo- ries of the war, If this is true, then Admiral Fiske must have been right in his remarks about women as the cause of war. We therefore urge that President Coottce retire at once from the White House and let Admiral Fiske take over the duties that are rightfully his. JL The tastes of the German women evi- dently run to genuine pre-war stuff. After the German election, the great- est shock for patriotic Americans derived from the news that cight per cent. of the eligible citizens actually took the trouble to vote. We do those things better over here. JL A play called “The Subway’ produced in New York next The public is expected to jam the thea- tre through sheer force of habit. JL It is’ estimated ‘that more than two and a half billion dollars will be spent by motorists in their travels through the country this year, and any statis- tician who wishes to figure it out in terms of hot dogs and lemonade has our permission to do s aL “Read the newspapers thoroughly you may live to be 150 years old, Cnauncey Depew at 91. But how can we wade through the Sunday editions in a mere 150 years? aL Since Caittaux has come back to pow- er in France there are rumors that our own W. J. Bryan is none too well sat- isfied with the Florida climate. aL Officials of the Piano Movers’ Union are pleasantly relieved to learn that pianos can now be transported by air- plane. “That,” they explain, “certainly takes a big load off our back.” is to be season, The Plumbers’ Trade Journal wants Lire and other publications to ease up on jokes about plumbers who have to go back for their tools. “The day when they were considered funny has long since passed,” says an editorial, referring to such wheezes, “and it is high time editors and joke writers gen- erally woke up to that fact.” We should like to publish a snappy come-back to this, but the gentleman who writes most of our paragraphs re- cently went y on a vacation and forgot to take along his typewriter. aL We are repeatedly told that we must not make fun of Prohibition, we must not make fun of the telephone service, we must not make fun of the Government, and the yellow press, and the radio, and the traffic situation and this and that. Nevertheless, even a presumably hu- morous publication cannot deny the fact that there is no law, constitutional or natural, that will prevent men and in- stitutions from making fun of them- selves, LL People who examine closely that power- ful, uncontrollable weapon which is known as Ridicule will find that it bears much structural resem- blance to the boomerang. When a oman is hit squarely in the nose by Ridicule, he should think twice before shout- ing. “Hey! who threw that? le \\ yj NAR ARAA any KZ “Bunk is plentiful,” asserts a recent headline on the editorial page of Mr. Hearst’s New York American, and un- til this statement is retracted we, for one, shall accept it as coming from the world's foremost authority. LL The use of trading stamps and cou- pons has been forbidden in Australia, which raises the question, What will the Australian housewife do with all the empty space now left in father’s top bureau drawer? LL President Cootince’s summer plans are being made, but we imagine that he will do no hay pitching until 1928. Copies of the Harvard Lampoon were seized by the po- lice because they con- tained a picture of an un draped lady drinking a cock- tail—proving that Moral Decadence in Massachusetts is the same thing as Grim Real- ism in New York. aL In e of the general pros- perity, the unemployment situ- ation continues to be serious. Thousands of idle children are to be seen thronging the municipal parks. comicbooks.com