Life — December 15, 1927 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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DECEMBER 15, 1927 “While there is Life there's Hope” Published by Lire Pestisiixe Ce Crantes Dana Giosox, President; Ginsox, exwoon, Editor; F. D. Casey, S. Martins, R. Co BY far the most in- D 4 teresting page OO). in the news- papers of No- vember 28 and 29 was that in which Henry Ford made a bow and intro- duced his new car. It was a nice bow and a graceful introduction. What Henry said about the retiring Model T was all true. What he about his new car is doubtless says att and Stephenson made steam drive engines and work for man, they changed the conditions of The greatest change sustained since that nd put over by human that has been time was contrived Henry Ford when he put out on the road his famous Model 'T car. That car changed life. Being a democratic vehicle, it was enormously helpful to road-building. The voters were for good roads as soon as they had cars to travel on them. ‘The great pur- veyor of cars for the million was Henry Ford. He showed what could be done and how to do it. He is the most contemporary person alive, and that is a good deal to say, for he is sixty-four years old. The sacking of Model T was an extraordinary thing. Model T did its job. It was a great carrier, a great teacher, a at developer of human activity. The temptation to exaggerate when one speaks of it is great of course, but exaggeration of that extraordinary contraption is difficult. Cheap things are not valu able unless they are good. Model 1 philosopher it was by far the admirable car that was put on the market in its time. It was neither beautiful nor aristo- cratic nor costly, but, like that little creature that was neither a June was good. To most WPANY, Cram Maxweet, Secretary-Treasurer; Hexny Art Editor; 1. Bexcurey and PF, 598 Madison Ave, New York. Vice-President ; Business Laxotorxe Ricuren, Manager. Fivss, Mana G. Coorer, Contributing ing Editor; bug nor a lightning bug, it got there all the same. As for the new caz, we shall have to make acquaintance with it, but the chances are that we are going to like it. It is a fact that a capacity for speed in a car is useful. Most people do not want to go fifty miles an hour on the road, nor near it, but they do often want to go fifty miles an hour for a hundred yards to get by something. Forty miles an hour on a good road is no longer consid- ered fast going. If the new car is better-looking than the old one, that is an im- portant gain for beauty in general. The works of man in this land are very generally improving in appear- ance—buildings, factories, schools, churches and those vast construc- tions which now more and more ap- pear in the greater cities. The hand of man has disfigured the country a good deal first or last. It seems now really to be turning to adornment, and Henry Ford is doing his share of that. ME. BORAH is a saucy person. 4Y2 He gocs around talking though he represented the American people. Well, he is a man of abil- ity—ability, that is, to talk. He talks pretty well. Whether he talks for a real purpose and with real sincerity often seems doubtful. In all his howls about Prohibition there seems a certain avoidance of the facts. Either he does not see them or he will not admit that he sees them. When he talks of “nullifiea- tion” —that nothing is more cowardly and slimy and that it strikes at the J foundation of our Government—he talks a good deal through his hat. There isn’t any nullification i in the form ghtcenth Amend- was such nullification as that that stirred up Andrew Jack in the case of South Carolina. There is a lot of lawbreaking in conne ) Prohibition. ‘There is a gr ailure to enforce it, but the failure is country-wide and represents im- mense popular dissent from the pro- visions of the Volstead Act. If there was not that dissent and if it did not find expression in some w there would be no Prohibition prob- lem, Mr. Borah probably knows that as well as anybody. He doubtless knows that the only effective way to w is record dissent from Volstead’s Is avoid to break it. He could hardly being conscious of that fact talks about the Constitution lification as though it did not exist. The Constitution seems to be his re- ligion and perhaps it is all he has It is not enough. He docs not rep- resent the American people as Sen a He and his colleague in the ate represent less than half a million people who live convenient to the Rocky Mountains. Perhaps he does good by his discourse by dis- closing how lame are the arguments of a pretty smart man for a cause that won't wash TH! losses by flood in Vermont are estimated to be from twenty to thirty millions. Vermont is neither big nor rich, and such a loss, which would be a trifling matter for some other States, is too h for Vermont. The restoration of her in- dustries, few of which are large, and of her farms and roads seems to be too big a job for her to finance. If it drags along, it may do her per- manent damage. Why not lend Vermont twenty or thirty millions of Government money without interest? She may very properly be thought of less as a com- monwealth than as a school. Her great product is charact who have it. If sh ment it ought to be provided and it is important to provide it_promptly. E. 8. Martin. comicbooks.com