Life — September 29, 1927 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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SEPTEMBER 29, VOL. 90. 2343 “While there is Life there’s Hope” Published by LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY 598 Madison Avenue, New York Crrantrs Dawa Ginson, President R.E PF. D. Casey, HeRrwoov, Editor art Editor THe neces- i of sity checking — the flyers in’ the competitive flights over the ocean is another re- minder of the prevailing indifference to life. Enough people are willing enough to live, but a lot of people are quite willing to take big chances of not living if thereby they see any © coming to them. It was so, they say, in the Middle Ages; killings were frequent, though life, being less sanitary than now, was short enough anyhow. Killing ix very common in these States, though much the bigger part of it seems to be done by persons somewhat recently derived from Southern Europe. For many people life is restless and tiring, and the war left many fingers that are quick on the trigger. ‘The velopment of transportation has put 1. ay ing at home is getting to be one of the lost arts, and a very pretty art it was when well done. A ‘good many things fail of accomplishment when it is neglected. advan immense de almost every one on the CURRENT murders are interest- ing but the public mind seems to be somewhat sated with flying dis- International polo is on, but writing has not pro- duced any gripping thrills. Maybe there is suppressed excite- ment about Henry Ford's new car, now believed to be on the way to birth. It is not guaranteed to be a car that will stay at home and dimin- ish the propensity for getting on the road. On the contrary, it will prob- ably be a good gadder. Still, as asters. up to this Cram Maxweit, LANGHORNE Vice-President SON, Secretary and Treasurer cars go, it will rank as a home body. The Times says it has cost Henry fifteen millions ‘for new machinery. The World reports that about fifty millions is a closer estimate of his expenditure. Henry has not pub- lished the figures. Tf he should con- clude will not have to pay advertising rates on the infor- What he does and what his new car may d nd everything about it, true or otherwise, is first- page news. Roger Babson, the business prophet, says stocks are going to slump and that there is an excess in the United States of everything ex- pt religion. There may be an ex motor cars but Henry ‘ord does not think so. : to do so, he mat ss of Europe and the liking is recip- rocal. We are really getting quite intimate with Euro} nd the visit of the Legionnaires will probably in- crease th All that is all in the day's work, and if it is suf- ficiently prospered Europe may be- come an issue in the next presiden- tial election. One reads that France is about to send home the Soviet Am- bassador and has also reduced the number of French troops on Ger- man soil. The complaint against the Russian representative in France was that there was too much Red agitation proceeding from the Rus- sian Embassy. The trouble in Lon- don with the Sovi-' representative One reads ns rejoice in all signs of a growing military organization on the ground that they are going to need it on their castern borders. Mr. Rockefeller, Junior, has con- tributed $2,000,000 to build « library for the League of Nations. That is ther sign of intim with Eu- a sign also that there are still people in this country who look upon the League as a permanent institu- tion. was very much the same that the Germ YHE French want to borrow one hundred million dollars at 6% to fund a debt on which they are paying 89%. Our bankers want to lend it to them, the President and the State Department seem to have con- senting minds, but Mr. Borah is op- Oh, well, somebody ought to It makes for discussion and consideration. Mr. Borah’s opposition to the loan will have the effect of stimulating opposition to Mr. Borah and that, of The trouble is the opposition to him never lasts as it should, because it usually happens that after he has got himself dis- liked by taking an objectionable stand on some question, he gets into the running again by taking an ac- other one. Just as one is ready to smash Mr. he chirps into some irre- nflict in which he is valu- r example, he comes out now quite stiff for our rights in Panama and seems right about it. It is likely that this country could be better run than it is being t present by the gentlemen in of its governmental machin- y. As to that, Senator Jim Watson, of Indiana, says that he would him- self be glad to accept the Republican nomination in 1928, No man, he says, would turn it down if it was offered to him. But Mr. Hughes might! He has had it once and might claim immunity. Se n does not ex- pect the nomination himself, but as a m 1] manager he wants to en- courage the idea that it is a good thing and that somebody will take it and run. posed. be opposed to everything! course, is useful. ceptable stand on some E. S. Martin. comicbooks.com