Life — September 17, 1925 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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HE rumor that the recent beauty contest in Atlantic y “framed” will probably inspire some guileless children to approach the win- ner with the plaintive words, “Say it ain't true, Miss America.” AL We may lead the world in murders, we may break faith with Europe, we may deliver our Government to Wall Street —but, at least, we shall keep our beauty contests clean. LL Hysterical crime crusades seldom do any good, according to Dean Pounn of Harvard, who evidently overlooks the benefits that accrue to the circulation of our tabloid newspapers. LL Bandits robbed a Chicago hotel, and got into the headlines. That's real Now if a hotel should rob anybody: aL A lot of business men are com- muting to their offices nowadays from the places where they park their cars. JL The latest directory issued by the New York Telephone Com- pany is so enormous that many families living in small apart- ments have had to cancel their subscriptions for the Saturday ning Post. LL No homes are quite so cluttered with useless gifts as those of young couples who were mar- ried during the Mah Jong epi- demic. news ! aL General Primo pe Rivera an- nounces that he will relinquish his dictatorship as soon as he has cleaned up affairs in Mo- rocco, and the King of Spain is looking forward to another long vacation in Deauville, JL Let us hope that when Donato MacMiLtan comes back from the Arctic he will spare us the tale of how many blankets he slept under, President Coottpce has had a béneficial vacation, but it will be spoiled if he gets back to the White House and finds that he forgot to stop the morning paper. JL The Belgian war debt settlement pro- vides for payment of pre-armistice loans, aggregating $171,725,000, without interest, either currert or accrued, over a period of sixty-two years; post-war debt to be funded wish interest of 3% per cent. after ten years, interest pay- ments for the first ten years being fixed at arbitrary amounts. We thought it would turn out some- thing like that. LL General Lixcon C. Anprrws has ex- acted from his dry aides a pledge of secrecy on what is being done toward YOU CAN'T BLAME HIM Prohibition enforcement. That ought to be the easiest secret in the world to keep. L There are 1,298,000 unemployed in Great Britain. Over here we could put those idle men to work playing the saxophone, editing verse anthologies, or enforcing the Eighteenth Amendment +L Honesty, one gathers, is far from being the best polities. LL American airmen are again flying with the Lafayette Escadrille, but the press dispatches don't seem the same without Grorce Crret. aL A headline announces that “Make America Musical” has been chosen as a slogan. Of the next war? JL “Man,” says Sir Oxiver Loner. “was brought out from among the animals and given knowl- edge of right and Thus distinguishing himseli as the only animal requiring the services of a good lawyer. JL A number of notorious Ameri- can bandits have appeared in Europe recently, but we regret to say that they have no offi diplomatic status, aL Yonkers has seven officers for every policeman on its force. Commissions from - Central American republics are reported on their way to that city study the situation as a prelim- inary to, making plans for the reorganization of their armies. LL Exports from the United States to France increased $8,500.00 in the last fiscal year. We never realized before that we manufactured that much chew- ing gum. wrong.” LL The human mind is said to emit radio waves. But, like most of the other stations, the biggest part of the program is jazz. comicbooks.com