Life — May 24, 1928 — page 19: what you’re looking at

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ew! 68 we ee —_— ical managers the Volstead Act seems kely to be discussed, as also the question what we shall do about rum if that law is repealed. Whether it is discussed or not, it is likely to be voted on. Report says our Methodist brethren in their conference in Kansas City adopted almost unanimously the resolution of E. Stanley Jones, “the world-famous mission- ary to India,” urging “all Christian citi- zens to unite in removing as soon as pos- sible legislation that restricts immigration and the rights of citizenship on grounds of race and color.” The conference, it sxems, approved of restricted immigra- tion but not of the policy of discrimina- tion against certain peoples and especially the Chinese, the Japanese and the East Indians. Well, brethren, Stanley Jones is a very great missionary and a notable Christian who edifices in what he says about religion and indeed about most other matters ex- cept Prohibition, What is wanted from our Government, and especially Congress, about the yellow and brown people 1s not so much a change of policy as manners. We cannot receive them in quantity, but our present immigration laws would take care of that because they relate the num- ler of immigrants of any race received to the number of their racial brethren who are already here. The yellow and brown people can be put on the same tasis as other people who want to come here, and all without injury to their national pride, and without letting too many of them come in. Congress could have done it that way but had not sense enough. What it did do should be cor- rected. Mr. Tuomas W. Stocum, merchant, financier and illustrious Harvard grad- uate, has come out with the opinion that there is too much concentration in Har- sad College on acquiring knowledge from books. Not so, he thinks, are young men best prepared to handle the problems of life successfully. Mr. Slocum may be the man now much in request who would establish a series of prizes for the schoolboys and under- graduates who show the most proficiency in sidestepping contemporary education without incurring detachment from the seminaries they patronize. There are some signs of a ‘lecline in the demand for col education, A number of people have given evidence of ability to get along in the world and get their names in the paper without it, and that may have had Us effect. E. S. Martin. SP * Ae td “Tue Smitn A Michty Man Is He” The Next War “Frecp Marsuat Lord Allenby declared no group of powers could abolish war, but that it might be regulated,” says a London dispatch. Well, that’s fine. And, as sponsor of the International Commis- sion for More Agreeable Wars, may we suggest: That matinee battles only shall be per- mitted. It is ridiculous to expect any soldier to get up good-natured at some terrible hour, especially if there has been a crap game the night before, and throw his heart into a fight. ’ That something has to be done about this food business. No man wants salmon or stew the first thing in the morning— that’s silly. So are beans. The Herald Tribune always prints nice recipes. That the next war has got to be fought in Paris, and not kilometers and kilo- meters away. That was the trouble with the last one, and it was a pretty bone- head play. That there ought to be glass stoppers to cognac bottles instead of corks. You're always remembering you've forgotten to get a corkscrew, and then you have to knock the neck of the bottle off. Oh, yes —and there's that matter of home-knitted socks. Tip Bliss. IN HOLLYWOOD “Tuar girl that just went by was Clara Bow.” “Well, well, is that so? I didn’t recog- nize her with her clothes on.” comicbooks.com