Life — June 4, 1925 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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E learn from a trade association that 2,500,000 men in America are now wearing silk underwear, proving among other things that there's darn little privacy left in this country. JL Italy has extended to {ts women the right to vote and to fight in time of war, but as yet has been unable to devise a law which will compel them to descend from a street car correctly. a Suggested recruitin in the next conflict : ladies?” slogan for Italy Shall we join the aL Complaining that ninety-five per cent. of the films shown in England are of American make, Lord Newton “If we are condemned to witness per- petual rubbish, for He: ike let it be English rubbish in preference to American” We advise His Lordship to leave well say en's cnough alone. For several years we have been trading rubbish with the Eng- lish—sending them our movies and tak- iiconrese 7 ing their novelist-lecturers in return— and it seems to us that they have had all the best of the deal JL We can't quite understand what Lord Newton is beefing about, anyway. An Englishman's home is his castle, and there’s no reason why he should leave it of an evening to patronize American films at the local cinema palace. The only people who are really “condemned to witness perpetual rubbish” are the ushers, the organists and the critics. movie it from Ambas- want to be known as rope’s best pal and severest critic. JL The Treasury Department claims that a dollar bill We've had one which exceeded this period—it got stuck in Junior's bank 5 Dr. C. G Asror of the Smith- sonian Institution has been taking the temperature of various stars and finds lasts four months. Sy ONDENCE SCHOOL || THE CLASS oF 1900 HOLDS ITS TWENTY-FIFTH REUNION that Beta Riga is 18,000 degrees hotter than our own sun. The inhabitants of Beta Riga, however, complain that it isn’t so much the heat as the humidity. LL 38,844 laws were proposed in the United States last year, of which 10,80) were actually enacted. Our national sport used to be baseball JL When the Ein or Kurpestan was de ported from these shores recently, he waved his hands and shouted, “Woe to America!” His next stop, presumably, will be at Newcastle, England. JL It would cost $250,000,000 a year to keep the dry ficet at its present strength on the Atlantic Coast, but the boys who operate motor trucks along the Canadian border agree that it would be worth it. -L Having been cut off from their water supply by the Coast Guard blockade, the rum runners are joining in the national chorus of “How Dry I Am.” wt Or—*“Scotch, Gin, Bacardi, Champagne and fancy Liqueurs everywhere, but not a drop to drink. JL Ontario has gone wet and the beer si are flashing invitingly across the river from Detroit. So Henry Ford will probably find a use for those Eagle boats after all. AL Grade-crossing accidents, according to the American Railway Association, de- creased fifteen per cent. last year. Which is just another indication of the decadence in our motorists’ sporting instincts. L This is Better Mailing Week...and by the way, what ever became of ALBERT S. Bureson? LL We have no quarrel with Better Mail- ing Week, but we think the Post Office authorities might have selected some more propitious time for it than the first of the month. comicbooks.com