Life — September 3, 1925 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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RIMINALITY is merely a form of sickness, according to a Chicago jurist, and some of the people who make their own illicit gin aren't feeling any too well, cither. aL “T never read,” declares State Senator Watker, Tammany candidate for Mayor of New York, who thereby identifies himself as a patron of the tabloid newspapers. aL A non-reading politician is no novelty, if one may judge by the number of official statements which start, “It has been drawn to my attention...” JL A savant in Germany now claims that worms sing jazz. Our sympathies, henceforth, will be with the early birds. A dark and ominous warning, issued by the Rev. J. Fr: Norris (the “Texas Cyclone”), contains this prediction: “In the twinkling of an Manhattan could be turned into a heap of rubbish, and Brooklyn changed back into a dis- mal swamp.” There are quite a few intelligent people, however, who feel that this was accomplished many years ago. JL Chicago bankers have offered $2,500 for every bank bandit killed, and we Miss Laaaes, take a Commandment — a a Me 337. Inve one-piece Ambassador Herrick wants the United States to buy an office building in Paris. It will provide, presumably, a bureau wherein wives may check their husbands while they go shopping for di- vorces, Jt Brave little Belgium thinks it a good joke that any European nation should be expected to square its war indebtedness with the United States. The idea being, we take it, to laugh it off. iL “We shall hear much of Africa in the next twenty- five years.” predicted a speaker at the conference at Williamstown, Mass., thereby confirming the impression that Africa is one continent which doesn’t owe us any money. Mustarna Kemat’s recently divorced wife announces, “I shall continue to fight for my sex.” Which probably inspires Kematto murmur, slyly, “But not with me.” bathing svits, roiled Stockings,ete period, ‘Taragraph, Thow 1P MOSES HAD MADE AS MANY LAWS AS ARF. MADE TO-DAY. are trying to figure out where they're going to get all the money. aL A Danish scientist has discovered that sciatica is not what you think it is. But then, labels don’t mean anything in these Prohibition days. JL Republican leaders are asking the President to take action which will add forty-cight new members to the House of Representatives. If cach of these forty-eight new mem- bers contributes his share of legislation in a satisfactory manner, we should be able to make good on the slogan, “One Hundred Million Laws by 1930.” Under present conditions, there aren’t quite enough laws to go ‘round. With the result that many American citizens, unable to find laws in their country, have to go abroad and break some one else's. Small wonder that there is a demand in Washington to speed up production. JL If the present legislative leth- argy is allowed to continue, one of these days Congress will have to be taken over hy Henry Forp, JL A radio expert says that sets will soon be installed in auto- mobiles. Then Mother, instead of driving the car from the hack seat, can drive it from the front porch. own LL Rear Admiral Huse, retired. greatly surprised to observe that “ridicule aimed at the policy of the United States has provoked laughter and applause.” Thanks, Admiral, for the ad. +L New Jersey complains that gar- bage from New York drifts in to its shore, but theatrical pro- ducers will continue to try out new plays in Atlantic City just the same. comicbooks.com