Life — November 3, 1927 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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NOVEMBER 3, 1927 m0. “While there is Life there’s Hope” Published by LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY 598 Madison Avenue, New York Croantes Dana Grnson, President Cram Maxwe Lanouoane HE. pa pers de- vote so large a shareof their conspicuous nal news of one that the more im- spa to sensat sort and anothe portant © f life are alv in danger of escaping public notice There was the flight of Ruth Elder and her man; something only impor- tant as a flight ap- parently undertaken primarily for what there was in it for iety. for the tabloids and the headliners. Of course it was a daring adventure, and it was a relief that Miss Elder was not drowned, but there was a taint about recent prizefight, of over-attention to advertisement and through advertise- ment Whether it promoted by agencies who wanted to sell papers or pictures on it does not appear, but since the Hall-Mills trial all g under suspicion. neers sensation; a it, as there was in the to business. was t sensational proceedings are The great charm about Lindbergh was that he was so entirely free from that taint. It is worth the organized agi temporary mind ¢ upsetting it to a far ion of the con- n proceed without ater degree than contemporary life can afford. It will be recalled that about a dozen people who had bad hearts died of the ‘Tunney-Dempsey fight as re- produced by radio, “That is not in itself so very scary, but it is interest- ing for what i the physical effects of organized sensa- mnsidering how shows about tion on sensitive people. An enormous industry sustains itself nowadays by agitating the human mind. No doubt , Vice-President ecretary and Treasurer that needs to be done, but the! limits to the be done p y are extent to which it can tably. One of the worst forms of it ix the big electric, alter- nating-current: signs that make succession of pictures or of invita tions to buy. are licensed ur not is not within our knowledge, but they ought to be un- der that when they seem to be unwholesome, licenses should be denied them, 'T of driving people ¢ Whether such) signs much restraint, and privile; zy by noises by violent and ceaseless assaults on their vision does not seem to be a necessary detail of human liberty. HE Bishop of London, talking the other to the American naries, protested against teach- ing American children to hate Gre Britain. He had rd of it going on and he objected to it very strenuously. In so far as it exists of course it is objectionable. It seems to exist in Chicago by instigation of that droll campaigner, Mayor ‘Thompson, and that is probably what the Bishop has heard of. But that is not a very important case, and can pretty safel left to be handled by publicity and ridicule. Certainly there is a movement in this country to promote amity between the peaple of the United States and the people of ¢ Britain that far exceeds any and activity of any other movement of the sort. The British have not fully reinstated themselves in the affections of the Irish or of the Germans, two peoples power with whom they have had recent Some of the Yankees stil hate them moderately but not nearly so large a proportion of them as did so sixty years ago. Language, litera ture, la and religion all operate to keep Great Britain and the United States in the same section of the international boat The Bisho| worry. Organized advertised effort to make the British and the Americans love one another may stir clashes. commerce of London need not up so much suspicion as to fail of its end. Possibly as good a way is to let Nature take its course, but anyhow Uncle Sam and Mr. Ball are not going to fall out. Fer one thing neither of them can afford to. Only politics of the most absurd and ras cally sort finds a profit in playing Anti-English. ERE seems to be proceeding in ates a really energetic er campa With the waning of the Ku Klux the tloggers have lost authority and apparently can no longer bully and terrorize the communities they live in. Witnesses dare to tell on them and juries to convict them, so their nasty. brutali ties seem by way of being cleaned up. They represent one of the baser and more repulsive forms of the propensity, widespread in these States at this time, to shape one’s neighbor's life according to one’s own sense of fitness, That is one of the things that Constitutional ment is intended to prevent, but Bills of Rights go for nothing unless there and strength enough in the populations they affect to enforce them. In various parts of this land such courage scems to be developing. Govern is courage have has in Pulitzer publishers NEWSPAPER IN been discussing what Mr. interest stories creased their sales. thinks the humar that have made families take in more papers than they used to. Maybe so. but families also may have taken in more papers in hopes of finding one that did est stories all aver its front page ELS. Martin ot spread its human inter