Life — May 28, 1925 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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BRITISH scientist, Sir Roxaun Ross, believes that he can devise a scheme for extending the average span of life to a hundred and fifty years—but we're afraid that he won't get much encouragement from the aver- age taxpayer. JL One lesson learned from the late war maneuvers about Hawaii is that the Navy Department's idea of diplomatic phrasing is to refer to the imaginary enemy as “a Pacific power,” and expect every one to think it means Siam. LL The “Grand Fleet,” during the maneuvers, executed at sea a forty-degrees turn, or one hun- dred and forty degrees less than several admirals have made on the air power question. JL Congress, we hear, will be urged to make Hawa ‘the Gibraltar of the Pacific,” thus laying the foundation of another successful life insurance selling campaign. The report that the Government's surplus for the current fiscal year will be about $100,000,000 is not necessarily alarming. Bills have not yet begun to come in for the clerical help employed to deter- mine who won the Battle of Oahu. aL Another problem of the business world has been solved by Mus- soLint, who now holds four dif- ferent offices in the Italian Cabi- net. He is said to be the only executive who can go into conference with himself. JL The Department of Agriculture, one reads, is trying to standardize meats, Does this mean an “Eat- More-Hash” Week? LL Chief of Police James Cavan- per, of Des Moines, plans a weekly motor truck parade of captured bootleggers confined in stocks, “to inform the public of the bootleggers’ true standing in societ Placards will be hung about the bootleggers’ necks which will, we hope, include their telephone num bers and the latest Scotch, quotations on aL The Des Moines bootleggers have a right to demand that they be confined only in genuine, pre-war stocks. i THE WHITE MAN'S BURDEN The German women, who are credited with having elected Hinpensurc, are demanding that he take to himself a wife. He might have known there was a catch in it somewhere. a Tuscola, IIL, reports the birth of a pig with one head, two bodies, eight legs, two tails and three ears. The Chamber of Commerce of Wins. ted, Conn., will take decisive steps to meet this competition from the Middle West, now A pig with three cars should stimulate a big boom in the silk purse industry. LL On page 32 of this issue you will find a communication from Capt. Georce L. Darter, the official publicist of the Military Order of the World War, whose remarks have been subjected to comment in this department on several occa Capt. Darte’s views on military preparedness do not coincide with ours, but we are glad to publish his letter, and shall welcome other expressions of opinion on the same subject. ions. A Worthy Cause VEN years have clapsed since the A. E. F. first went into action at Cantigny and Belleau. Wood, and seven years are apt to place a terrific strain on the average memory. But there are some things that we must not forget: there are veterans of these battles still in hospital—still giving till it hurts for their country. The Veterans of Foreign Wars are selling Buddy Poppies this week, made by disabled and needy ex-service men, and Lire urges that you buy as many of them as possible, for as much as you can give. All the proceeds of the sale are used for the relicf of men disabled in the war. Surely, this is not too much to ask, comicbooks.com