Life — June 28, 1928 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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Little Rambles With Serious Thinkers (We beg to state, as we have stated be- fore, that the serious thoughts in this column are not fabricated in Live's office. They are all authentic quotations from the published writings of the prominent ladies and gentlemen, or from reliable newspaper reports of their public utter- ances.) The sun is just thirty-two miles in diame- ter and exactly 3,000 miles distant from the earth.—Wilbur Glenn Voliva, People should know the facts of life. —Ethel Barrymore. The point in cating is not to eat too much and not too little. —Dr. Frank Crane. No other nation has anything which we would think of taking by force. —Calvin Coolidge. A woman can’t marry a reasonably in- zent man unless he is at least slightly —George Jean Nathan. Smoking cars on trains are a godsend. —lJohn Farrar. Tammany, I repeat, plays no part in poli- George W. Olvany. tics. Lire's Camps for Needy Children SHOOT! “Lire” is the location man of what prom- ises to be one of the most thrilling movies ever presented on the human screen. The name of the picture will be “Out of the Slums.” You know the plot—for though it is a new picture—new every year—it is an old story. As old as human hearts. The scenario is written by Fate, and is all about those unfortunate little people—little boys and girls—who live down in the horrible districts of the poor in New York; shameful spots which, please God, some day will be wiped out altogether. But until that day comes, we must help. You can see that. The actors are those youngsters whose parents herd and struggle in dark and discouraging tenements; who must look on, helpless, (Please turn to page 28) SPORTSMEN and SPORTS Socko! Soccer has risen to the point where it is more than a regional sport; it is now an international annoy- ance. It was only last’ year that the Uruguayan soccer champions came to this country and oc- casioned so many rousing riots that the Uruguayan Consul General took the ball away from them in order to prevent open warfare between the United States and the whole of South America. It was only a matter of weeks ago that the Ger- man soccer team played so roughly at the Olympic Games at Amsterdam that there was talk of abrogating the Treaty of Versailles. There's something peculiarly belliger- ent about this game. Even staid and con- servative Englishmen have been known to raise indignant umbrellas in the heat of controversy over soccer decisions and results. It was in one of the big cities of Italy that the chief of police called off a soccer game when he and his hench- men “frisked" the spectators and discov- ered that practically all of them were pre- pared to root for their respective teams with revolvers, distressingly sharp knives and home-made blackjacks. Down in Buenos Aires the players and spectators ata soccer match became involved in a eneral discussion that ended up with the burning down of the whole stadium. In the face of all this battling on the part of foreign teams and spectators, it is odd to find that foreign teams that invade this country complain that our players are too rough. However, the foreigners quickly catch the spirit of soccer as played between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. There was Wortmann, of the Hakoah Cuorus Girt: Excuse me, I didn’t know you weren't dressed. comicbooks.com