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AUGUST 11, 1927 VOL, 90. 2336 “While there is Life there’s Hope” Published by LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY 593 Madison Aven ew York Citantes Dana Ginsow, President R. B.D. Casey, Art TPHERE thay bea lesson for us all, and especially for the Naval Con ference, in the failure of that lively young Sharkey from Boston to deposit the venerable Dempsey in the hole, Dempsey, fouls or not, seems a valid die-hard, and it may be that that sort still has its uses in this world. This is a new era and that implics a new order in society, but that the old order will stand up for another round or two is all but obvious, and that it may win some decisions is likely. It does not step as lively as it did, but it isn’t dead yet; oh, no! Britain, for cxample, continues in active operation, all forebodings to the contrary notwithstanding, and has just transmitted to Canada for exhibition and co-operation two royal princes and her Premier. Let us hope we shall see them all in the United States. Possibly Mr. Coolidge will invite them te fish with him in the Black Hills. If the Naval Conference doesn't get anywhere there will be all the more reason to cultivate affectionate relations be- tween the parties to it, for if they fail to agree it will be less because of distrust of one another than of distrust of the immediate stability of human affairs in general. Mr. Coolidge, however, may not care to complicate his midsummer polities with large-scale hospitalities and may see Mr. Baldwin later in Wash- ington in the more regular course of business. For Mr. Coolidge is not much of an inviter. To be sure, he invited Charles Lindbergh to Wash- ington, but not until it became evi- dent that something had to be d He does not care for the limelight me, itor Coan Maxweit, Vice-President tor Laxcnorxe Guisox, Secretary and Treasurer for its own sake, but seems merely to endure it as a detail of advisable political publicity. Mrs. Coolidge seems to take to it more kindly, and so more successfully, than he does. TUDENTS of Mr. Coolidge may be asking themselves what he would have done these last three months if he had still been Governor of Massachusetts and had had Sacco and Vanzetti to deal with. As thes words are written that matter is still hanging by the gills. Something will have been done about it before this issue of Lire reaches its readers. The decision in that likely to be even more momentous than the decision that gave the fight to Dempsey. It might even produce another Presidential candidate from Massachusetts, a thing incredible, but not inconceivable. Mr. Coolidge is temperamentally disinclined to invite events. He pre- fers to wait for them to happen. That appears in his reluctance to call an earlier session of Congress than the law provides. Doubtless regarding the meeting of Congress as a necessary evil, he prefers to have it happen by constitutional process, yct he must be giving due, and possibly anxious, thought to whether he can afford not to call Congress to meet in November. Mr. Smoot thinks he ought to and Mr. Smoot usually has persuasive business reasons to back his thoughts. The opinion of Senator Jim Watson of Indiana that Democrats in Congress from the South will not care to make a stir for an early session against se seems. the wishes of Mr. Coolidge whose action they are so largely de- pendent for adequate relief” is the suggestion of a practical mind. “upon QERDINAND of Rumania, who for some months past has medi- tated departure from this agitating sphere, has finally departed. His late kingship has been bestowed on his grandson, aged five, in the absence of ned in Paris by his son Carol, deta private business. Carol, however, would like to be king. There is prob ably better money for him in being a king in Hollywood than in Rumania. eed o H‘™ SALOMON will not get a statue in) Madison Square just yet, but he has had a good ad- vertisement, and that is somet He should have one from time to time, for he scems to have been a useful and disinterested patriot in the Revolution, who lent money freely to the insurgents and their government and never got much of it back. The Municipal Art Com- mission, which is the Devil's Advo- eate in appeals for canonization by statue, ruled against the plea for Haym beeause his claims seemed not of monumental size nor clear Besides that, no likeness of him has come down, enoug! Of course the motive for a con- spicuous monument to Sale to please the Jews, of whom an ap- preciable number are now residents of New York. The Columbus Statue in the Circle at Fifty-ninth Strect stands for similar reason as on was an offering to our fellow-Italians. Columbus, however, though never a resident here, nor yet a broker as Haym Salomon was, was a well- known and highly speculative char- acter who, of many discoverers of the Western World, was the first who suceceded in publishing his find. The statue to him is as much in honor of advertisement as of navi- gation, and of course as such de- serves its place until perhaps its site is needed for Mussolini. If H. L. Mencken, the well-known mocker and derider of current civi- lization, is, as alleged, a descendant of Haym Salomon, that is monument E. 8. Martin. ae a comicbooks:com