Life — October 20, 1927 — page 22: what you’re looking at

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OCTOBER 20, “While there is Life there’s Hope” Published by LIF. 598 Madison PUBLISHIN Avenue, COMPANY ew York Crantes Dawa Gmsox, President R. PF. D. tenwoo, Editor AsEY, Art Bditor HE main message of the newspapers con- tinues to be that some people are worse than That was al- ways true, but has seemed lately to be emphasized. It is not only that general disorder which finds expression in gunmen and running street fights, but there happen diabolical behaviors by indi- viduals, as of the man set forth in the morning headlines at this writing who murdered a highly respectable and commendable girl in a motor car, then burned up the car in an effort to conceal his eri The day before the main news in the paper was about the Alabama floggers and the effort made in that State to round them up and put them out of business. These flogger bands that go about in mask and gown in some of the Southern States profess to be out to correct misbehavior but, of course, their brutish tyrannies are themselves as atrocious forms of mis- behavior as often turn up. There are signs, though, that the floggers have worn out their welcome in the South, as also in the border States, Indiana for example. They are not ly needed in Indiana. There are scandals enough just now along of the Ku Klux and dishonest offi- cers of government to keep Indiana sufficiently in news without any fresh flogging incidents. others. &= ITH so many bad eggs operat- ing we should be careful not to denounce any good eggs without due reason, Col. Roosevelt, Jr., “the young Colonel,”as Alfred Smith calls him, denounced Governor Smith's political associates at the Republican Convention the other day and told Cram Maxwewt, Vice-President Lana: axe Gison, Secretary and Treasurer or imagined what awful things might happen if said Governor Smith be- came President. According to the headlines of the Democratic papers it did not go at all. Truth to tell, Governor Smith is at least as repu- table as the young Colonel and ap- parently blessed with a much higher degree of political intelligence, so the feeling of observers seems ta be that the Colonel's denunciation was a case of a pot imputing blackness to a rather high-class vase. SOME of our more sanguine friends think that we are on the brink of that cheerful time when the Devil is to be bound for a thousand years and for a’ change things are going to go right for a spell. But, oh my, what is a thousand years? Are we going to relapse again after that? Some of us may live out that little period. Mrs. Augusta Stetson lately said in the papers at great expense that she herself was going to beat h and that Mrs. Eddy has al- ready done it. Judge Rutherford pro- claims, also at great expense, that millions now living will never die and people still go on talking about that thousand years of millennium as though it mattered. Oh, well, let us take courage! Our long ascent from the primate origin is the most encouraging thing we know. We are still moving, get- ting new powers, all the time finding out astonishing things about our- selves and what we can do and what it is possible for us to achieve. Man is evidently a changeable creature and he seems to be changing faster now than ever before in his whole existence. It is likely that he has complicated times ahead of him, tre- mendous adjustments to the cost of living, including the cost of educa- tion and me land surgical alle’ ations, but he is getting new powers and new knowledge all the time and nobody can see his finish. SSCOSSOEss ARTIN JANSEN, a flier, got a notion that it would be nice in the accomplishment of a flying stunt to take with him a tame lion in a cage. He got a respectable, motion-picture lion and took the air with him, Something went wrong and he came down very informally somewhere in the woods of Arizona. Both he and the lion escaped alive, but he left the lion in the cage and went off to get help. Eventually the help came, for this is not a tra story. They got the lion, still alive but’ despondent and feeble from ix days of hunger and thirst, and at last news were incurring heavy ex- pense in getting him back to his men- ager Fliers, take notice! animals! A SALVATION Army lassie, Mrs. icholson, said a policeman h: beaten her up. Police Rayfiel found her derly conduct, suspended sentence and dismissed the charge against the officer. But the Ss n Army took it up and got before a c Please omit the and Jury and got the policeman indicted, so there is a prospect of case knowing what really happened. Policemen just now seem to need attention. What we see of them in the streets as traffic officers or guard- ians of the peace, and much that we read about them in the papers as pursuers of gunmen, is greatly to their credit. They enjoy hereabouts pretty high place in the public esteem. But w Mr. Oswald V lard discloses in the October Har- per’s about detectives and the meth- ods of the Third Degree is horrify- ing. Policemen have great powers. If bad ones are allowed to abuse those powers nobody is safe. ‘The Salvationists have done a_ public service in following the case of Mrs. Nicholson, E. S. Martin. comicbooks.com