Life — February 24, 1927 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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FEBRUARY 24, 1927 VOL. 89. 2312 “While there is Life there’s Hope” Published by LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY 598 Madison Avenue, New York Cuantes Dana Greson, President Cram Maxwew., Vice-President Lanxcuorxe Ginson, Secretary and Treasurer R, E. Suenwoon, Editor F. D. Casey, Art Editor Re THE Glad- stone cal- wadmon, UNy trial sperthettre! turned outasit AS should. Peter W: ight, who said the old man was such a loose liver, was thrown out of court. Yet very likely he be- lieved that he was speaking the truth. ‘The world abounds with men who think of the relations between men and women almost exclusively from the p! standpoint. Ob- serving the attraction have for men and men for women, they put it all on a physical basis and then look for scandals. If they don't find them casily they can al- ways invent them. They are very stupid people. The great trouble with Peter Wright is (not to put it too bluntly) the limitation of his un- derstanding. Gladstone liked the ladies and was sensitive to the charm of pretty women, ‘The attraction they had for him was all to his credit. He was alive; not a brickyard nor a book in breeches, but a man, The Peter Wrights and all the stupid people 1 to recognize that the feminine spirit he ze for man; that men get from women mentally and spiritually what they cannot get from other m a stimulus, a mental recreation which is extremely valu- able, and which such men as Glad- stone, and more lately and quite con- spicuously Woodrow Wilson, are al- ways looking for. T relation of the mind has its perils, no doubt, but is in itself as innocent as it is valu- able. Another thing the Peter Wrights do not understand is that some women a messa decent-living men come in their age to the condition of loving not so much individual women as woman- kind, Gladstone evidently had that affection. He talked to women of the street, to the scandal of men like Peter Wright, but so did Edmund Burke, another man with a great heart and great gifts of discourse, and concerned to save the world. All women are more or Jess sweet to sech men. They guided and tl mis- oy the company of the pretty good ones. You will find in the New Testament a dant examples of the same dis- position in the leading character of that remarkable compilation, nt to save the ISHOP DIAZ says the Catholic Church will win in Mexico, but he strongly opposes intervention there by the United States. He is probably right in both par- ticulars. Intervention would do nothing but make mischief. It is very unlikely that there will be any, cither to help the Catholics or the oil men and other grant owners, but with both of these complainants the Mex- an Government in the end will have to play fair, Neither of them is likely to get all they want; both of them may hope to get as much as they ought to have, or if not quite that, at least some approximation to it. Mexico cannot do business un- less it protects just property rights. The prevailing religion in Mexico is Roman Catholic. That will go on, of course, but not necessarily without changes and concessions, and, Ict us hope, marked improvements. Mean- while New York scems a more com- fortable, as well as a more profitable, place for Bishop Diaz than Mexico, isgruntled citizens often speak of giving the country back to the In- dians, but it is not really a practical suggestion. Much more to the _ point would be the proposal to give Texas back to Mexico. It would be a large medicament, but it would probably cure Mexico and perhaps all of Cen- tral America, and possibly it would cure Texas, EWSPAPERS say Henry Ford's fortune is now as much as two billion dollars. Henry does not say so, but various experts have figured on it and it may be true. An incom- prehensible amount of money and yet in a way important; not interesting just as a mass, but quite interesting for the emphasis that it gives to the mind of Henry Ford! For that is a very interesting mind, and one of half a dozen or fewer minds of men that have changed human life in this generation. The English periodicals constantly discuss Henry, and any thoughtful person who looks across the A ic and sees what is going on here is apt to take thought about Henry Ford. ‘That helps to explain why the size of Henry’s fortune is important. He is not a safe deposit vault nor even a bank, but something like a projectile with all these mit s back of his nose. What is he going to do with them, or they with him? What else is he going to do to this world? He has done a lot already and is still go- ing strong and thinking out new manquvres, Two billions! All that power be- hind Henry Ford, and anything one can think of liable to happen in this world in the next ten years and to call for medication! The control of these vast sums by individuals is an extremely interest- ing and important factor in con- temporary life. Mr. Rockefeller has been a great example of it. Mr Ford seems to be about as unlike Mr. Rockefeller as they come, but it may turn out that they are both on the job tv improve human life. E. S. Marlin. comicbooks.com