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The page contains an editorial essay titled "While there is Life there's Hope" (February 4, 1926), discussing President Coolidge's handling of a Shipping Board controversy. The cartoon at the top depicts "LIFE" as a figure being knocked down or struck, suggesting the magazine's satirical commentary on current events. The text references Coolidge's management of appointments and resignations, mentioning figures like Admiral Palmer and members of the Shipping Board. The editorial criticizes how Coolidge navigated political pressures, arguing he should use better judgment in appointments. The overall tone suggests satirizing Coolidge's passive or questionable political decision-making during the 1920s. The accompanying illustrations (train, house) appear to reference migration patterns and domestic policy discussions mentioned in the text.

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BRUARY 4, 1926 F. D, Casey, Art Editor EOPLE whose nds have ru to consideration of © pro m long Mr. Coolidge lar Presiden have able d last until s chief ac tight, and Un more practiced _ polities hh after the manner of Murra Crane as convenient 3ut now it scems that Mr. Coolidge has made a mistake It has come out politely, but very clear sh Senator Norris, that in re s Mr. David J. 1 Mr. ¢ n, Mr « ly, thr m of Tariff Com Missi red of him ter of resign the hands o ion to be placed i 1¢ President for use at will, Mr. Lewis declined the office on s, received a temporary tion. Now the Tar signed to help t quasi-judicial. F an impor ta 6 to Mr. Coolidge of Massa chusetts, and as to th ma the wants what rather what New En: he wants, land wants, and in making appoint ments for the Tariff Commission he t it Very dently practices to sidents before him have t much so Pr practiced to supply the Supreme with minds that worked in favor of certain pos preme Court d have put the Su ions n polities, but the api ments were for life and Js MPANY ‘ew York Maxwent, Vice-President vived the special circumstances to which they owed their seats It will be recalled that the P esident had trouble with a member ard, Mr. Haney, and aske for his resi pr contrary to the understanding Thad with you when T reappointed you.” Mr Coc Shipping I ation because “you are ing to move Admiral Palmer therefore, in these two mat Mr. Haney and Mr. Lewis ap pointed 1 n to office in which they ht to use their own with gmer the expec Id use his judgment. It cannot be said that that is unusual in polities, but all the sai tion that they wou these cases make an interest tribution to the study of how Mr 1 works Coolidge’s Parad fee ever $0 ambled, there’ no place like thome'? HE winter migration has set-in trong Arthur — Brisha ‘ating with his readers on the wliforr notes that the train h sections, as long indeed as they « safely he made, and that these ns will come back half-empty. The alifornia stay th cople who ge that is, for the w Enormous numbers of other peo go to Florida, Ste wards the Med south on the coast of Africa crowded and ports ly nowadays How so lions of people can leave their th with passengers. ( ¥ people we a many mi jobs, find money for transportation and spend months at a time away from hon} s hard to understand, but they do it, and do it in such numbers as to provide em ployment for thousands of people wher- ever the streams of travel strike. 1 of people is one of the extraordinary feat d Florida, to one who has not been there, is a kind of fable. He res of these extraor ry times. looks at the pi ures in the paper of the tall towers of Miami and wonders He reads of the population of Los Angeles, a movie show million or so, and wonders what on place. If we are to understand the country nowadays, no dovht. we must at on the road. It is a most ex country and any «ne who thinks he knows where it wili get off is robably mistaken. Our imaginai re not yet equal to that hat at matters make a noise what do not! A gentleman from Chi- cago and his wife, who has been, #0 it seems, an oper ot ona st amer to go to Europe, when the gentleman took his | and disappeared into the life of New York. Whether that was a domestic incident, or something concerned with got back on the wharf economics or polities, did not really ap- it ran to columns in t with pictures and very large writer, Mr. Rupert Hughes, an e that George Washingt crable wine, and on o forcible language There was nothing 1 the fact t he said it did his time drank consid asion used not give it so much importance as if it had been put out by, say, Mr. Cooli or Governor Smith, but those remarks also attracted attention, created a vast ran to headlines and time someb: y will ex 1 wr natural h it up, but where he will get it printed Heaven knows, since newspapers ly in cline to print the natural history of everybody except themselves. B: per- h i some day Mr. Brisbane will retire from the newspaper business and tell a real newspaper story E. S. Mar comicbooks.c | | | m