Life — May 6, 1926 — page 24: what you’re looking at

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MAY 6, 1926 VOL 227 Published by LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY $98 Madi » Avenue, New York R. E. Siurawoon, Editor Crate Maxwe Vice-President D, Case int Editer Laxcnoaxn Ginsox, Secretary and Treasurer wil impresses us one reads — is a+good, honest. Vermont lawyer, but the discourse of y advocates Senate hear ctings held in con- nection with it is the slow advocates of Prohibité ness of the realize tha 1 standard of of ch generally ter that they the Ives set is accepted by the pe lard to which Attorney Woman's Enforce the country as the stance When addressed the they wi to attain, General Sargent N ment: and ight of onal Comm Law told per an institution that th ce for them that “there is no al liberty to and ur, these social event ir ge shall your tables he disgraced by the presence of unlawful Tiqu he owas talkir properly enough for a man who held ment, that may have been the way he should talk. AM the same his speech was merely an assertion oi his official opinions as 1 His the tables are Attorney -Gener. personal sentiment th disgraced by unlawful liquor is his senti ment, to be sure, and respectable, but hundreds of th perfectly respectable women dissent from it When he said to his prohibitory frier li we go about declaring in speceh and in print that the law ought to be changed so that the acts which are against the w will not be offenses, we thereby weaken our causes in the minds of the tribunals before wl must try them,” n We it was rec nized that he was ments to Mr and Gen New York Mr. Sargent Buckner of Well Andrews. when he advises the pec the United States about their their habits, lawbreaking, he mi than Compared with our lively Mr even habits of sters more to amusement edificati Buck ill Travers he recalls stuttering “B-b-buy the — rat when his friend's prize terrier was chased around the pit by a big rat. Mr. Buckner is still young, but it may be he has in him timber to succeed Mr in. the Sargent office of Attorney-General with Mr. Sargent’s |* the same report remarks appears the statement read to the conference by Mrs. John D ckefeller, Jr, who asked: “Why be honest with ourselves and adm © children will not be the high fine people that we want ar expect them be unless we—their parents—set them an example of being just and law-abiding citizens?” By all means Iet us be honest with our- selves, and Mrs. Rockefeller will do well to be honest with herself in recog nizing that what she wants for her children, and her ideals about hi minded fine ical with what other parents want for their people, are ider childre at there is great variety of iceling about what is good and what is had i Mrs. Rockefeller may mire Rockefellers. One hopes that she does, and they ptedly have admirable characteristics, ot hold them up as the They a est of us are fallib! Rockefeller’s opinions are fallible What every human but probably even she would 1 standard for human conduct re fallible just as the life is wurse,” and that ald feel is that matter ¢ large di work ever towards varic and habits ought not to t imposed upon it by law unless the imposition is necessary. N IT I many of th ys seem to f the Wets t increasing rounds of drin| realize that what most is nor cheaper rum, nor wide-open any- thing, but a law that will better promote public order than not a worse the public health and have at the law we the Wets wan! present flaw one, There is danger of such a reaction er the evils of the ad law as would put back the cause of temperance and even reopen for a while the saloons. That has often happened in the course of dry legislation in S ASUALTY raised have the rate for industrial in- insurance men surance. The ave ge raise th ughout y is ten per cent. The rate for Greater New York and for the State of the try Missouri is eighty-four per cent. Everybody knows that life in New York is very casual, These tall towers that are running up all over the city provide some bad falls for those of us who are ironworkers, or concerned in any way with putting them up, or who happen to pass when items of construction fall from them. Then the streets are full of taxicabs that do not always stop when pedestrians pass in them, nor nt avoid collisions with one another. Manhattan Island people get all from. A good falls from the high even And on each side of drowned are rivers which in and bridges they y also get bad cost of living mi and are damaged by them. And then there ts and hold up men and h nw and then a policeman gets drunk and kills some body, and people overeat in restaurants, and we might as well admit that it is dangerous town But what is there in Missouri that makes industrial life so precarious? Is there too much moonshine there? Do people read Jim Reed’s speeches or hear them with results that affect the price of What is this tie between Missouri, the State that wishes New York, the leading town in the business of ex! bition? industrial insurané to he shown, and Greater E. S. Marti comicbooks.com