Life — July 28, 1927 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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VOL, 90, 2334 “While there is Life there’s Hope” Published by LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY 598 Madison Avenue, New York Citantes Dana Ginsox, President R. E. Suenwoon, Editor PF. D. Casey, rt Bditor At this writing there 4% i, still: proceeding at Geneva a conference between the represe nta- wattle, tives of the SS United States, Great Britain, Japan, and possibly other countries, bout how big y each of them ought to have and what kind of ships should be in it. will have noticed headlines about this conference when the flying news, intelligence rbout) | Mr. d ther regular items per mitted. roa month past the thing has had on off-days a good Newspaper readers murders, deal of newspaper space and some would think it would be getting somewhere by this attention, and one time, but up to now it has not ar rived anywhere. ‘They may — be sending out airplanes to look for it shortly, So long as there was a conference, one would prefer that it got somewhere, but it seems to have been a conference of experts with the usual differences of conviction and attitude. expert has been Mr. Ambassador to Bel und native of Los Angeles, and considerably a product of diplomatic training as now imparted. That Mr. Gibson is a smart young fellow is generally agreed, and not so very young either, for he is forty-four years old, but inasmuch as he has lived out of the country most of the time since he became of age and has never run for office, nor so far as is recalled has had a divorce suit, nor killed anybody in a fight, nor flown to France, he is really not a very well-known citizen of our great Cram Maxwett, Vice-President Laxonouxe Ginsox, Secretary and Treasurer country. How, ¢ ng to life in Los Angeles, he escaped service in the movies docs not appear in the piece about him in the New York Times Magazine (July 10), which affords grateful information about — his career. Mr. Gibson is getting a lot of reputation out of — the His picture is in the pape onference. and bio- graphical printed. pieces about him are So far as appears, that is the main advantage which up to this writing has resulted for the United States from this conference W shall want to know sometime or other whether Mr. Gibson was really 1 good man for this job or whether 1s is possible he was too expert. The proper attitude of minds about navies is that this habit of countries’ shooting one another up is awfully silly, as well as preposterously ex- pensive, and that we ought to do what we can to cut down the cost of it anyhow, Whether Mr. Gibson has had these sentiments in the front part of his mind or has been pri- marily occupied in seeing to it that no one put anything over dn the United States one cannot say, but in- quiry naturally turns to that point. Mr. Wythe Williams, correspondent for the New York Times, who is just now admiring Mr. Gibson at Geneva, says that though Lord Cecil of the British delegation hired a house and presumably a cook, and entertained the Japanese delegation, Mr. Gibson would not dine with him, preferring to talk with him at the American headquarters. Oh, well, that was not necessarily a sign of strength but rather one of apprehension. When gentlemen wish to agree they are quite apt to dine together. Mr. Houghton, our Ambassador at London, said in effect the other day that the immediate cause of war was diplomatic experts. He is not on himself but just a glass blower de- tached for a while from his business. Perhaps his sort, used to life and doubtless abhorrent of waste, are better qualified to cut down navies. YHE Jews are having almost too much fun with Henry Ford Henry, for reasons best known to himself, having made profuse apol ogy for all the nonsense he has printed about them in the Dearborn Independent, is now negotiating to discover on what terms they will wel- come him as their long-lost friend. The latest demands are that he should fire two or three of the heads of the Independent. Since the great duty of admoni- tion in the public press has got so mixed up with the advertising busi hess it’s coming to be unsafe to slam anybody any more, ‘That condi- tion, however, makes for the develop- ment of skill in the use of language. We may have to come back to oratory for relief of mind. ARAB HE flood sufferers in the South continue to get notice in the papers. ‘The bad cases are still in charge of the Red Cross. If the Red Cross did not have money enough to look after them we should probably hear of it. If Mr. Hoover felt that relief was inadequate he would probably say so. If Mr. Coolidge thought things were going ill enough to make a seandal, he But since the Red Cross does not complain, Mr. Hoover docs not issue appeals and the President sits tight, the infer- ence is that what can be done with money at the moment for the flood victims is being done, that the whole problem is being studied, and that Congress will be invited to pay at tention to it as soon as is necessary. Maybe so. might call Congress. E. S. Martin comicbooks.com