Life — October 27, 1927 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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ULI 29 21 OCTOBER 24, 1927 VOL, 90. 2387 “While there is Life there's Hope” Published by LIFE PUBLISHIN a Aven! 593 Mad Crrantes Dasa Siurawoon, Editor D, Casey, drt E D SVEN in + his our new Am name bassador ought to be acceptable to Mexico. Doubtless they will address him as Senor Manana, or they might if they were a little more Spanish. It ean- not be said, though, that Mexico just now presents the flana country On the contrary, President Calles prompt hand. Whether his policy of ex terminating his rebellious adver- saries is. the policy for the has on his hands is a aspects of a ma- seems a right situation he question open for discussion and no doubt our Mr. Morrow will consider it and probably discuss it with his friend President Coolidge. But that will be private, worse luck, for we should all like to know what he will say. We shall probably know in time, for Mr. Morrow has not gone to Mexico for nothing, and what he thinks may be expected to have influence in any proceedings there in which our Government has the temer- ity to indul, But Mr. Morrow for the moment is Ambassador to hornet’s nest. If the country was a railroad, one would say it had got to be reorgan- ized. Probably Calles has attempted too much—crowded the Church too hard; ditto the yet he has seemed to be on the right track and more for Mexico than for Calles. These generals that he is executing make rather a gory mess, but the Mexican habit of taking to the field at the approach of an elec- tion and trying to shoot it out is not a habit that is conducive to suc ful democratic government. foreign investors; Cram Maxw Lanxcuonne Ginsox, Secretary and Treasurer -OMPANY ew York dent » Vice-President body hereabouts wants Mexico to be wishes, she seems still to. in- cline towards autocracy. But so does Chicago, as witness the government of — her present Mayor, the means he used to get otiice, the means he uses to keep it. THE World reports from Wash- ington that — the League is getting ready to spend upwards of two million dollars in next year's. presidential camp: They want a bone-dry President to beat every congressional candidate who is Wet, and all such other Wets as Governor Smith, Governor Ritchie, and Senator Reed of Mis- No doubt they will conduct an earnest campaign, but probably the time has not yet come to them to consider the present rum laws and whether they can be so improved as to be enforcible without depriving them of what power for good they Two million dollars spent on more power for the Drys will not souri have. do as much good as a quarter of that sum, or even less, spent on re- investigation of the drink problem, ; of Prohibition have surely added to the knowledge of Seven what can and what cannot be done by law to diminish the evils of drink. If we don't know more about Pro- hibition now than we did when the Amendment was passed, the public mind must be much too much en- grossed with baseball, motor cars, flyers, swimmers and prosperity. REALLY, current problems are very difficult. Take the prob- lem of providing government for Mexico, the rum problem, the prob- lem of Rapid Transit in New York, all complicated and bemuddled by the great problem of giving the pe ple what they want. If we could take the rum problem away from the Wets and the Drys and concentrate knowledge and experience on it, de- vising means by which the greatest good to the greatest number could be promoted so far as drinks were con- cerned, its solution would not be an incredible achievement. But we ean not do it that way. We have to do it by the slower but possibly surer pro cess of giving people what they want It is very much so with the Rapid sit problem. There are plenty of experts on it but when their en set forth, the final is the voter, and how can the voter be persuaded that it is to his advantage to pay more than five cents to ride s have in the subways! THE Spiritualist’ paper Light (of London), which is a wise and able organ of its cult, discusses the many prophecies of calamity affecting the future of this world and says the Jatest news is that the great physi- al catastrophes that were looked for have been averted, and that what we are in for is mental conflicts. That may be. There are pros pects of mental conflicts a-plenty in this world for some time to come, and they can be troublesome enot even if they do not run into w Changes in life the last twenty years have be ment to them involves a vast amount impending immediate n enormous and the adjust- of friction, as also and consequen tially larger lunatic asylums and sanitariums The strain of life is very great for many people these days, and when you come to think of it, it is quite as bad to lose one’s hold on self-control as it is to be killed in battle, and furthermore, much more expensiv . Martin. appropriations — for _— comicbooks.com.