Life — April 21, 1927 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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

Truth Is Mighty and Shall Prevail “wH AT a place to live!” thought the young reporter 1s he entered the little room partitioned off at the back of the big pie factory. The day shift of pie makers was just going off and the night shift coming on. The latter gave evidence of being even noisier than the former. The mince makers were chopping away lustily. The pie foundation crews were shouting and straining over their heavy work. The upper-crust riveters were beating a veritable devil's tattoo above the hissing steam, The reporter glanced around the completely equipped bedroom and won- dered again. He looked up to see be- fore him the lady proprietor of the pie factory. That busy executive greeted him. “Would you mind telling me who lives here in this room?” the reporter asked. “I do—long enough to establish a residence,” the lady proprictor declared in a matter-of-fact tone. “Why?” The ‘lady proprietor pointed simply. The reporter followed the line indicated by her finger past the whir- ring machinery, and the scores of toiling workers to the loading dock, where delivery cars were taking on tier after tier or pies. On each car was emblazoned in gold letters the legend: “Home-Made Pies.” “Be it ever so humble—’ ” the lady proprictor began to quote softly. But the young reporter, minus one more illusion, had vanished into the night. Fairfax Downey. The Constant Dub No. 4 HE 18 UTTERLY UNABLE TO CO- OPERATE WITH A HORSE: It Won’t Be Long Now “QO you are inclined to \ think Jones has gotten over my making love to his “Yes, I believe so.” Vhat did he say about it?” “Oh, he said it was all over but the shooting.” Interprete ORTH: I think the United States ought to take charge of things in Chin. West: Is there that much oil there? TRUE MODESTY “NAY dear, did you see where this Sherwood ANder- son person said that it was imPOSsible to be imMORal any more because everybody was wearing short SKIRTS? I mean did you EVer in your entire LIFE hear of ANYthing so CRYPtic? I Actually think it’s the MOST perVERTED iDEA in the WORLD, don’t you really think it IS, my dear, because WHAT does it MEAN? Well, ANYways, he said that the ‘only salVAtion for SOUND immoRALity was to reSTORE long SKIRTS’—can you BEAR it, my dear?—but I mean he ACtually DID, and I honestly think he could not have been jous or anything because I mean I think ALL these kind of SNOOTy AUthor people like him and this Tark BOOTHington person and this pecu- liar Ben HECK and simply HEAPS of OTHers who think they are the latest YELP in LIT'rature are just trying to be SMART all the time and are making all kinds of WISEcracks just to BAFfle you, do you know what I mean? Because this odd Mr. ANderson, who is not so HOT, after ALL, because he is just PRESident of the Anti-SpitTOON League or some FOUL organiza- tion like THAT, my dear, says that CENsorship ‘should be applied SOLEly to bad GRAMmar and poor STYLE’—I mean he COULDn’t have more _per- VERTed iDEAS, because everybody KNOWS that there is really LOADS of immoRALity among the LOWer CLASses nowadays, my dear, and I think it is iDEAS like this Mr. ANderson’s which should be CENsored because I mean you never KNOW, my dear, what HARM some- thing like that will DO to people who are just DUMB, kind of, and sort of be- LIEVE everything they HEAR!” Lloyd Mayer. Intelligence Test ROSS out the wrong word in the following sentence: Movie stars (earn) (get) large salaries. comicbooks.com