Life — October 28, 1926 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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SPT OCTOBER 28, 1926 VOL, 88. 2295 “While there is Life there’s Hope” Published by LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY 598 Madison Avenue, New York Cuartes Dana Giuson, President R. E, Suerwoon, Editor F. D. Casey, Art Editor ['. would be nice if a couple of com- petent — polit- icalsagescould S mployed to represent the State of New York in the United States Senate and con- tinued in that employment during good behavior. If the Senatorial sal- ary could be doubled for them at the cost of the State or some one else and pensions provided for them, as they are nowadays for some Judges and many teachers, so much the better. States that succeed in keeping their Senators in office are commonly well represented; Utah, Idaho and Mon- tana for examples; also most of the New England States in times past, and some of the Southern States. New England is apt to be Republi- can and keep in Republican Senators. The South is Democratic and apt to re-clect Democratic Senators. Pennsylvania being Republican used to keep able men inthe Senate. But New York and Illinois shift about now: a great deal. They seldom have § ‘ors in office long cnough to learn the job and become expert at it. THE main reason for wanting Mr. Wadsworth to be re-elected is his familiarity with the employment. From a Democratic standpoint he has voted wrong many times and is likely to continue so to do. But he is able and, as said, he knows the job. When some one speaks of him you know who he i The last cannot quite be said of Judge Wag- ner. He is less renowned than Mr. Wadsworth, but he is com- mended for many qualities. He seems to be a highly respected can- Crain Maxwett, Vice-President Laxcuonne Ginson, Secretary and Treasurer didate and may prove hard to beat. Mr. Wadsworth, after various po- litical flirtations with the Drys, reverted to his natural state and is a Wet, self-confessed and glad of it. He wants to repeal both the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead law and start new assisted by the light of experi- ence. His desires, as will be seen, though a credit to his heart, are not very practical. Judge Wagner is not a Dry cither, but the condition of being Wet is expected to make more trouble in the Republican than in the Democratic Party in New York, though when you get farther South than Maryland and Virginia and have to deal with Democrats, most of them are Drys. So there is noth- ing intrinsically Wet about the Democrats nor Dry about the Repub- licans. HE Catholics are much better in team play than the Protestants. They seem to be particularly good at shows. The other day in Philadel- phia Cardinal Dougherty celebrated at the Stadium in the Fair Grounds a Mass of Thanksgiving for one hun- dred and fifty years of American in- dependence, The picture of it was in the Sunday papers and very im- “posing. The Protestants cannot do anything quite like that. not the tradition of it. Not only do the Protestants lag in shows, but in other matters of more importance. They make breaks, as at Detroit, where, one reads, the Board of Commerce of Detroit was able to persuade many churches and the Y. M. C. A. not to let represent- They have atives of the American Federation of Labor speak in their pulpits or on their platforms during the conyen- tion of that organization. What did the Catholics do? a special High Mass for the de] and an address by Secretary Ryan of the National Catholic Welfare Coun- cil to effect that labor had the right to organize and that it was the duty of the Church to help make this right universally recognized. But that the labor leaders were invited to speak in Catholic pulpits does not appear. All the same, it was not satisfac tory to all of the Protestant cler; men in Detroit to have the cold shoulder turned to the labor leaders, They held a meeting of protest. Had zates pune, Queen of Rumania, who is coming here, is described by re- sponsible eye-witnesses as one of the ablest as well as handsomest women in Europe. Not many Queens have visited this country. An Emperor or two, Princes a good many, Prin- cesses divers, but the last Queen that comes to mind came from the Sand- wich Islands. They say that Queen Marie is a very practical woman— that she is not coming here merely for a joy-ride, but to take a look at the country, become acquainted with some of the people and see who and what there is here that looks profit- able for Rumania. It is a compli- ment that she should come on such an errand. She intends, it seems, to make a circuit of the country from the Atlantic to the Pacific; something only a small fraction of our popula- tion has had the time and the money to undertake. Plenty of people have had the time; plenty of people have had the money; but not many, com- paratively speaking, having both, spend them to examine their home precincts. When they start out on the road they want something more novel and more filling than the United States, and they go to Europe. Europeans as a rule also travel inore at home than they do here. But their w: in that particular are mending. They come here more; perhaps lured here by secing so much of their money flit in this diree- tion. Where the treasure is, says Scripture, the heart inclines. E. S. Martin. comicbooks.com