Life — October 7, 1926 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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OCTOBER 7, 1926 VOL. 88. 2292 “While there is Life there’s Hope” Published by LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY 598 Madison Avenue, New York Curantrs Dana Grusox, President R. E. Snerwoop, Editor F. D, Casey, Art Editor E would not ven- ture to say that we need- ed a great 422 wind to sweep across our southern boundary to persuade our isolationists that we were still a part of this world. Perhaps we did not need it for that purpose, but since we have had it, that application of We are a part of it may be useful. the world, a part of mankind, and even the tallest tariff cannot keep out everything that we do not want. There are those West Indies, very few of which belong to us, boiling water in the skies, hatching out these extraordinary tempests and shooting them off at Florida and the Gulf, and we can do nothing about it ex- cept pick up the pieces. Legisla- tion won't help us; threats get us nowhere and we cannot collect dam- ages. Something bigger than we are has tackled us and to the extent of the resulting catastrophe we are floored. In Scripture, as will be recalled, when the discouraged prophet, chased out by a lady politician, stood on Horeb waiting for directions, there came a great wind that (along with the earthquake and the fire) was the precursor of the still small voice that gave him what he sought. We have had the great wind. Now if there is a still small voice to follow, it behooves us to listen for it. We have been too much like Jeshurun, who waxed fat and kicked. Our vast prosperity has not seemed to increase our kindness or our con- sideration for others less fortunate. Our government has been somewhat too ready to collect our dues; not, Cram Maxw LaNouonne Ginson, Secretary and Treasurer Vice-President however, for its own pleasure, but because it has considered that collec- tion was the will of the people, and could not see a way to avoid it. But that it really is the people’s will is far from cer! and growing more uncertain every day. Meanwhile perhaps a taste of calamity will do us some good, discharging the func- tion of the slave who occupied the triumphal car with the victorious Roman general and whose office to remind him that he too was mortal. At this writing the tale of the tor- + ®nado is only half-told, but already one reads of a “deluge of relief” on the way to Miami and the other stricken districts, and relief, of course, will follow the path of the storm as far as it went. For one thing there has been some- thing in the paper besides hold-ups and murder trials. The tornado swept a lot of our usual daily food into the garbage cans on the back pages, and left the front pages of the papers fairly clean for other news. Cn S65 Dr OBODY seems to want to run for Governor of New York on the Republican ticket. Dr. Butler won't do it and quite right. Mr. Jr., who has come out as the Go of the Drys, refuses to run ona third ticket and thinks he would not take even the regular Republican nomi- nation if it was passed up to him on a gold plate. Perhaps Hon. Theodore Roosevelt will have to be drafted again, for the adventure calls for a vessel consecrated to the point of desperation. Of course since Governor Smith is going to run, the nomination of a Republican candidate is just a for- mality. As a governor, Mr. Smith is really incredible; so much knowl- edge of the job, so remarkable a spirit, such extraordinary ability in knowing what should be and ‘how to get it! He is so far beyond what we have any right to expect in Gov- ernors of New York that, as said, he is incredible. He is willing to be Governor once more. It is to the advantage of every honest citizen of New York to vote for him. In the party opposed, Hon. Fish’s attitude of virtuous indignation against Hon. Wadsworth’s misleadings is very amusing. Mr. Fish says the party in New York is not wet and that Mr. Wadsworth misrepresents _ it. Maybe so. But Mr. Wadsworth seems an excellent man to keep in the Senate. R. LOUIS MARSHALL, a law- yer of distinction, is quoted in the papers as telling the members of the Kiwanis Club at the Hotel McAlpin in New York that “persons who violate the Eighteenth Amend- ment are traitors to their country.” But he could hardly have said that, for as a lawyer he must know that treason is a distinct offense, of which the punishment used to be death and still is when conditions require it. Mere bootleggers are not traitors. However, eminent characters have very curious fluctuations in their oral deliverances. There was Senator Caraway, of Arkansas, who came home from France the other day and proclaimed to the reporters that the French were that mad at us for wanting to collect money from them that they were desecrating the graves of our soldiers buried in France. This information went up and down the land and was promptly cabled back to France. All a whopper! No basis to it! No authority for it! Gossip that Caraway heard and seems to have adopted because it suited his views. So careless are our great men! Senator Pat Har- rison, of Mississippi, the Democratic floor leader of the Senate, also comes home and talks about the propaganda against collecting the war debts, He and other operating Democrats are worried because in Ohio Mr. Newton comicbooks.com