Life — January 19, 1928 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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JANUARY 19, 1928 VOL, 91. 2359 “While there is Life there’s Hope” Published by Lire Pentisiixe Cospas Crartes Dawa Girnsox, President; Crsm Maxwett, New York. Vice-President; Laxcuowne , 598 Madison Avi Giusos, Secretary-Treasurer; Huxey Riciren, Business Manager. . D.C. S, Masmyx, R. C. Benes LENPBERGH seems to have that touch o t lestial something that makes the kin. His services in the advertising department of our na- tional affairs are wonderfully uscful. He produces emotions that make favorably for negotiations. — His visits are accepted as transcendent attentions to any country he goes to. Somchow or other, he seems to radi- ate good will and all quite without premeditation but because somehow it happens so. The astonishing effects of his first flight to France distinctly improved our relations with Europe at a moment when they needed improvement. The idea of sending him to Mexico scems truly to have been heaven-sent. He has done good there and seems likely to be the precursor of better relations between our country and the other countries to which his later adventure has taken him. He is the shining example of con- temporary youth and the most en- couraging harbinger of what it may be going to do for us. We need to have some young person look partic- rly good and demonstrate ca- pacity for brilliant service, for we have a lot of boys in sight and in the headlines of the papers who seem out to break the record for in- iquity. Our jails and prisons are loaded up with the milder cases of these young scamps and a new one breaks into publicity nearly every day. Such youths present an anxious problem. There is no satisfaction to be got out of punishing them, yet that is all there is to do if they are caught, and to make punishment {rt Editor; L. A. y and F, G. Coorrr, Contributing Editors. , Managing Editor; swift seems the readiest means to check their exploits. The combina- tion of the motor car with minds hos- pitable to all sorts of criminal and violent intentions is very serious in- deed. UT why are these youths so bad? How do they come by their bru- ity, their cruelty and their callous indifference to all moral considera- tions? How far is that the fruit of the corrupting influences of Prohibi- tion; how far the fruit of the war; how far of the decline of religious authority? Hickman seems to be a bit crazy, but only rather more so than a great company of other young devils—robbers, hold-up experts, kidnapers, ready to do murder at any moment and apt to do it. Somehow these young persons have got to be cleaned up, Is it a fault of our pres- ent system of schooling and gencral training that they transpire in such numbers ? RAVELERS returning from England report an outburst of talk there about the Pyramid prophecy of the Great Tribulation that is to begin on the 28th of next May. It is not a new story but has been running for all of ten years and probably longer; but quite suddenly, if the various reports are true, it has become a leading topic of conversa- tion in England. If any one has missed the story, it is enough to say that it concerns the great Pyra- mid as an architectural record of ancient knowledge, and in partic- ular a certain passage in it as a record in stone of things fore- doomed to happen. The course of events indicated in that record is not yet completed. The literature of this Pyramid story is voluminous and learned, full of mathematics, arche- ology and ancient scriptures, includ- ing the Bible and the Egyptian Book of the Dead. Periodicals have long been published in England which take notice of it, for the whole hypothesis and all its figures have been tied up to the British-Isracl allegation that the Anglo-Saxons and others are the descendants of the Lost Tribes and the heirs of all the prophecies made to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob as progenitors of the Chosen People. 6 HE supporters and promoters of the Pyramid prophecies say that the beginning and end of the Great War can be accurately figured out on the basis of calculation that they use; that after the Great War was to come a breathing spell, which in turn should be followed by another period of chaos and hell-to-pay ginning on the 28th of May, 1 and lasting till the fall of 1936. There is an appalling pre about these forecasts, but if the English gone jumpy about it. is even more remarkable than the forecasts themselves. If there is really so much talk as reported, it will soon be reflected in our news papers. What odds Lloyd’s gives for or against the predicted chaos is not reported yet, but we shall know, for Lloyd's will doubtless bet on it. ince we usually hold our nom- inating conventions in June, this date of May 28th should have an interest for politicians. If the bottom of the existing order is going to drop out just before the conventions meet, that is something to consider, though the gentlemen most discussed at present, Mr. Hoover and Governor Smith, would make pretty good bad- weather candidates anyhow. THE companionate marriage idea has sold a good many books, filled space abundantly in the newspapers and made lots of talk. It may seem to some people a good idea: it does already. But, after all, Why advertise? E. §. Martin. comicbooks.com