Life — November 24, 1927 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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NOVEMBER 24, 1927 “While there is Life there’s Hope” Published by LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY 598 Madison Avenue, New York Crrsntes Dawa Gunsos, President R. E. Surawooo, Editor bP. D. Casey, Art Editor ror 1 change we have had news that was news without any admixture of crime, sport or sex appeal. -Sev- == eral millions of readers when they read that’ Ver mont was a washout and Massachus etts a sluice, must have said to themselves, Well now, that will jolt Calvin on the subject of floods! Un doubtedly it) has done se, Mr. Coolidge has done what he could f New England. For that matter he was prompt to do what he could by wWailable governmental agencies for the flooded States of the Mississippi Valley Nevertheless, floods have come home to him Why these floods? Were they an accident or were they something ts report that they were the result of freak condi sent? The meteorolog tions —a warm, moist storm coming up the coast and meeting a cold storm from the Northwest. The re sult was this prodigious precipita tion of rain, with the immense casualties that followed. Oh, well, freak storms! No doubt that was what the Egyptians said sometime since. One can hear their weather men protest—"A freak East wind blew back all that water in the Red Sea and, d—n it! all those Jews got away!" We do have very curi experi- ences this year in the weather and earthquake lines. Whether they have n element of divine suggestion in them or even of divine indi tion will have to be left to the Funda- mentalists, but it is obvious that the distressed New Fnglanders are hot personally guilty of any worse Cram Maxwet Laxcuonse Gr , Vice-President ON, Secretary and Treasurer misconduct than the rest of us, and deserve all the sympathy and all the help we can offer, No section of the country, however, is more self-help- ful than New England, and it will be characteristic for them to work out of their tribulations in such a fashion ay will leave them somewhat safer and better off than they were before. If the floods have diminished the supply of spindles in the New England States, that might not be to their disadvantage. SOME. things have happened that ‘Dare gratifying. There was such utery over the action of the an pe workhouse for three months a thrifty boy who slept in the subw ce magistrate who sent to the ind he was turned loose to live morc that the boy's sentence was rev wisely. That was accomplished by public opinion, enlisted and directed Ly newspapers Another good thing was the ex posure of the methods of the Burns Detective Agency in investigating the jurymen in the oil trials. Detee tives whose business is to discover for hire what is hidden may them- selves be subjects for detection to the profit of the public. That exploit the Burns people to another — newspaper ef bringin ce Wa hievement A third comforting incident was Mrs. Bacon's recovery of her house- number, 1 Park Avenue, by decision of the Appellate Court. The trans fer of that number to a big new building on Fourth Avenue was pure impudence and the apparent con- clusion that nothing could be done about it was aggravating to honest people. Now the Appellate Divs has done something and we shall see if its intervention is effective i i us M AYOR THOMPSON has mad ‘ no effort as yet to introduce the Greville Memoirs into. the public schools of Chicago, or even to put a supply of them into the Chi cago Public Library. They are quite scandalous, probably amusing reading, and derogatory to the repu tation of the British nobility and gentry, including some long-deceased relatives of the R 1 Family of England. Big Bill might stock up his libraries with them and call it stand-off. The British morals of sex are probably improved. It has been suid by highly qualified authority of the Revolutionary Fathers in’ this country that they had the morals of temeats. The British statesmen of the same period were doubtless open ion. The like dof contempo to the same all could hardly be ss rary American politicians and prob ably not of British politicians either, ind as for the British Royal Family, it is really a model of deportment, as everybody knows. Of cours: King Gee is mad about the Greville Memoirs, but) they have little significance. GIVE Mussolini full eredit for cleaning up the Mafia in Sicily If he has done that, as appears, he has done a great work which has needed doing this long, long time Vor that work he and his organiza tion seem particularly qualified. If he can clean up Italy on the bandit side he will be ng a considerable service also to the United States. T is a great thing when an im- portant job comes to hands fit te do it. Harvard seems rather easily licked in football this year. Maybe somebody else ought to take charge of that interest for her. ness side of football has grown so important that possibly Harvard's Baker Business School is the proper nthall. How ever, gate receipts have not fallen off a vital ne busi- agency to handle her f vet and that is coming to be consideration in sport FE. S. Martin comicbooks.com