Life — July 8, 1926 — page 7: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

Lifve The National Question HE great cosmic topics are sorely neglected, T And critical chaos in commerce can wait; Political turmoil leaves us unaffected — Rejected are serious problems of state. i Europe is gripped in Red Anarchy’s talon, Though monarchies totter and empires sway, “Say, how many miles do you get to a gallon?” Oh, that is the National Question to-day. From ‘Texas’ wide spaces where graze peaceful cattle, ‘Cross prairie and plateau and picturesque plain To snow-covered peaks that gaze down at Seattle; From Hollywood, cinema sirens’ domain, To rugged Vermont, where the brave Ethan Allen * With valorous patriots plunged in the fray, ‘Say, how many miles do you get to a gallon?” Oh, that is the National Question to-day. Arthur L, Lippmann. Modern Idea JILLIS: Has your town a curfew law? Gitus: Yes. We don’t allow children under eighteen on the streets after four a. a. HE objection of many New Yorkers to Nicholas Butler's suggestion that the Eighteenth t be repealed and the Quebec liquor system dis that it would entail a walk of several blocks to the Nearest Place. ARS That Valuable Stuff, Publicity “ CAAY, what did this Amundsen Byrd do, anyway?” S “T don’t know. Wasn't he the captain of that ship that saved some people in the ocean last winter?” “Naw. His name was Grange! I think this Byrd Amundsen is the guy that got that football player, Red Fried, to sign a moving-picture contract for $300,000.” “You're crazy! That was a guy by the name of Pyle who got Earl Carroll to take a bath in some wine so that a girl by the name of Peaches Browning could marry Irving Berlin.” at’s the difference? What did Babe Ruth Carroll. From a Club Chair Y daughter wants a car with a right-hand drive so that it will be easier for her to look in shop win- dows while driving in traffic. se # Nothing the male ever docs makes him feel so manly as his first shave; or so elderly as his first scalp treat- ment, * * * As an older person, relatively free from suspicion, I give it as my belief that bobbed hair would not be so popular if “necking” hadn't come in about the same James Kevin McGuinness. Patron: HERE, THIS DOUGHNUT HAS A TACK IN IT. Waitress: wevv,1 pectare! 1’LL BET THE AMBITIOUS LITTLE THING THINKS IT’S A FORD TIRE, comicbooks.com