Life — June 14, 1928 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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“WHILE THERE IS LIFE THERE’S HOPE” VOLUME gI Cuarces Dana Gipson, President June 14, 1928 Published by LIFE PUBLISHING NuMBER 2380 COMPANY Rosert Emmet Suerwooo, Editor LancHorne Gisson, Secretary-Treasurer A’ GREAT many Crain Maxwett, Vice-President feelings were hurt by the con- viction of Mrs. Knapp, lately Secretary of State of New York, for pilfering from the funds of the Census of which she had charge. It is a tragic case. Mrs. Knapp has been a re- spected woman. Her real fault seems to have been that getting into politics she wished to be rated as a regular fellow and adjusted her own conduct to her political environment. The currents of the stream she embarked on were too strong for her. It is an extraordinary and really pathetic case of a woman destroyed in politics. The World thinks that “all women who are politically inclined have reason to feel especial satisfaction in the verdict of the jury because there cannot be political equality between the sexes until and unless the responsibility is equal with opportun- ity.” Oh, well, that is well said enough, but women in politics will always be women and how much political equality there will ever be between the sexes is a highly speculative question not likely to be vitally affected by the verdict of the jury that dealt with Mrs. Knapp. It is far from being demonstrated yet that American politics offers profitable careers to women. The relation between relation, and attempts to make it so are attended by difficulties most subtle, which are far as yet from being solved. Woman unquestionably has and exercises her share of power in the direction of life, both public and private, but that it includes political power and the holding of high Office is not yet demonstrated. Office hold- ing is onc of the humbler forms of service involving first of all consecration. For every person in active politics there needs to be another person who provides a refuge and rest-house for the politician, That applies, to be sure, to other things than relates All people engaged in exhausting activities have this need of the refuge ot a home such as is made for a man by a woman, and sometimes for a woman by a man, iy Rca It may be remembered by persons who know about it that the 29th of May was picked by prognosticators associated with the British-Israel persuasion as the opening day of the Great Tribulation which was to continue for eight years and end in 1936 with the world thoroughly cleaned up and ready for much better times. Perhaps so! An eight-year period is fairly entitled to open gradually and if there was no particular crack of doom on the 29th the prophets are perhaps entitled to issue rain checks and say the show will come off all the same. And so it may. That the next eight years, covering two presidential terms, will be more than ordinarily eventful is what almost everyone expects. Things are moving very fast and have been Be at least ten years, and have not got yet where $ r |they are going to. With so much motion mankind and womankind is not a political | we may look for vicissitudes. The Eve- ning Post on May 26 had in its financial section the headline, “Big Stock Collapse on the Way, Says London.” Everybody has expected it, but up to this wriung it has not happened. If it should happen, — if there should even be a real crash in stocks,—that might seem a fairly definite starting point for a tribulation. Prophecies and forecasts however are best examined from the rear. When what is predicted has happened, or the time allotted has elapsed without its happening, one can discuss it with some assurance of being right, but few people lay in ascension robes any more because their trusted Fundamentalist calculator has figured out the end of the world. But, prophecies or not, tribulations o not, some momentous things seem ripe to happen. There are various smoking vol- canoes and if one of them starts an active eruption it may have a stimulating effect on the others. Southern Europe is not yet entirely composed in its mind. The Bal- kans are still a good deal of a liabilit and that great section of the earth whi includes Russia and China is full of processes that have not yet worked out. Neither is all of South and Central America entirely tranquil or satisfied with its destiny. As for the United States, it is in a position it has never occupied before, for it has loaned out or invested vast sums of money all over the world and, of course, it could not go unaf- fected by a terrestrial shake-down. Somehow our world must be cured of the war-habit. It may come out with pain like a bad tooth, but it mus come out. Measures are constantly being taken about that. Mr. Kellogg practices to outlaw war by international agree- ments and gets encouragement, at te in his labors, while pretty much all the countries take thought and spend money not to be caught without up-to-date, carnal means of remonstrance in case anyone starts anything. Really it may be that war is out of date, and that humanity was advanced enough by the proceedings be tween 1914 and 1919 to appreciate it. And another thing! When you are out in the shopping district do you seme- times get a disagreeable sensation of everything being for sale? Well, this present world is rather too much that way. Maybe that is on the way to being mended also. E, S. Martin. Mr. Martin Won this issue, Edward Sandford Mar- tin retires as chief editorial writer of Lire. He will continue his association with Lire’s staff and will contribute special articles to the magazine from time to time. When Lire was founded, in 1883, by John Ames Mitchell, Mr. Martin was its hist « under Mitch page, long Roun new may paper nght not f larity is dri a religi ture, the p what fully, Ex years, writ comicbooks.com