Life — August 18, 1927 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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AUGUST 18, 19 “While there VOL. 90, is Life there’s Hope” ublished by » PUBL Madison Citsntes Dana Ginso Cram Maxwet R. Surawoon, Editor PLD. Casey, art Editor A this goes to press, it is not number of Lire yet determined whether the Naval Conference is 1 failure. the conference was called, it) will be rather a pity not to have So long as it come to some agreement about navies. But its failure, if it’ fails, will not be a calamity but may be all for the best. The conference has added to knowledge about the needs and dis parties to it. If their requirements and desires arc too different. to be reconciled, it merely le. nations concerned tu go on as at present, restrained by a timely frugality from building any- they think they Parl no mind to go in for competitive naval construction, positions of the ves the ran do with- Certainly vent and eress have WIEN it comes to information about the state of this world, you can get anything you want: Dr. Moens, Duteh anthropologist. pre- dicting a war of races unless white tolerant and polite; Rutherford hooking up radios than ever were hooked up before to men are more Judge” more denounce organized Christianity as risti the nd to predict ess, now do- inta teachings of Christ hell-to-pay in the pre ing, of the world through chaos to Aven’ 1ING COMPANY New York . President Vice-President Laxuouxe Gitsox, Secretary and Treasurer ultimate peace; more or less authority pointing that Asia is getting ready to ¢ whelir He. ok (July various persons of Europe; such writers as Wortham in’ the Atlantic that Mohammedan- ism is moribund as a political influ- and that what Asia most wants nowadays is all the European civil- can : ¥ the home, motor cars, saying ence, ization she comforts of air- About China news is provided to suit the When subsidiary companies of the Standard Oil” Company antagonize another in Russian oil policies, it lization that understand- ing of contemporary terrestrial con- ditions is confused. planes, food and money. taste. The same about Russia. two helps to re UEEN MARIE of Rumania is quoted one day revisit the United States as soon as her period of mourning has ended, and the next day as about resolved to enter a nunnery and spend her remaining years in pious exercises ind contemplations. She hopes to come here next time as a private per- son and really look around, and pr sumably she hopes also for privacy in the nunnery. In both cases her aspirations are likely to be defeated by her publicity bureau, equal in eff and equal also in its conscientious antipathy to silence. It will tinue to secure to her her place in the public eve. as hoping to which is iency to Mr. Coolidge’s, con- If she goes into a will see that she brass-band nunnery it ceded by a radio and loud speaker in her will followed front | is pre- and has ind if she comes here, she duly announced and headlines on the real privacy is attainable for Queen Marie, any more than for Charles Lindbergh, Calvin Coolidge, Henry Ford or John D. Rockefeller. HERE is a rumor that the Pope will send observers to the great Faith and Or hey will not be conference and will church conference on der” in Lausanne. members of the not vote, but note what is g The United States thing like that at League of ng on. has done with the Nations, or other Euro- pean councils. It has sent observers to look on and contribute, by. their presence, to the purposes of the coun cil, but not to If the Pope really does send observers to Lau sanne it will be considerably inter- esting, and will seem to imply some modification of the attitude of Rome towards the rest of Christendom. vote, SOMEBODY newspa per to say how few flags were hung out in New York on the Fourth of July, and to suggest that the reason was that people had been punched much by , professional busy- bodies about ir flag behavior that they got tired of hanging out our national emblem. That to organize patriotism are likely to do it) harm. like needs to the inside. wrote to a up so may be. People who try quite Patriotism, religion, from come HARLES LINDBERGIL lasts remarkably well. He is an ex- cellent performer, draws crowds for every show, and meets expectations wonderfully. Mr. Herrick, in the he has written to Charles's says pretty plainly that he Charles is a gift of Heaven. Maybe so. Anyhow Mr. Herrick has done a very pretty piece of writ- ing and quite a pious one. A mystic from Ohio! Who'd ‘a’ tho’t it! - 8S. Martin introduction book, thinks i comicbooks.com