Life — August 9, 1928 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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reminiscent of those soldier-statesmen who dragged up third-century Rome from the i abyss of barbarism into which re; revolutions were pushing it down, (Mos ; Ss of them were murdered, by the way, and v2 r x, F > ‘ to the disadvantage, as a rule, of th ~ A ; BA ot 2 murderers as well as of the state.) Al Bes : f : Mexico is worse off for the murder of = - Obregon; and worst off of all are Obre. gon's enemies, who are all in one way o “WHILE THERE IS LIFE THERE’S HOPE” another suffering for it even though d ugust had no hand in it. But a good many other VoLUME g2 A Bust Q, 1928 NuMBER 2388 prominent Mexicans have been murdered Published by LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY under one polite pretext or another, in 598 Madison Avenue, New York the past eighteen years, whose taking off Cuarces Dana Ginson, President Rosert Emmet SHerwooo, Editor was an advantage to the country; it get . dangerous m vay without Craix Maxwett, Vice-President LancHorne Gipson, Secretary-Treasurer 8 jen our of the way Bok leaving dangerous factions more inflamed and dangerous for their death. the adviser of European cabinets” in the} The killing of a couple of Croatian interest of the prevention of war. That deputies in the Yugoslav parliament by would be a great bloodless revolution in-}a man who was trying to shoot the Cro- So ts Karenos deed, but one doubts that Republican tian leader seems to have brought to ruin treaties by which |¢@™paign orators will say much about the ten-year endeavor to make Yugoslavia fourteen nations | that side of it. Truly, as the French editor |a unitary nation rather than a federation great and small re- observes, the treaties are of the greatest of three kindred peoples; which was pre nounce war as an instrument of national | portance “if seriously understood and cisely the cause that lay closest to the policy, except in cases when the sword is executed.” Perhaps it is pessimistic to sup- | assassin’s heart. But twenty-five years ago forced into their hands, will doubtless | POSS that these treaties, like all others, |a_ group of patriotic conspirators same, figure in this year’s campaign arguments will be understood as subject to the pro-}nated King Alexander — Obrenovitch, as one of the major achievements of the vision, rebus sic stantibus; which means, | whose personal despotism with Austrian Coolidge era. True, there are Republican We shall say now whatever is conve- | support had kept Serbia weak and back- die-hards who cry out against them, and nents and when the time comes we shall wards it vas a crude remedy oe a grave the odds are always against any treaty of |©° atever 1s:cOnvenient isease, and. a costly remedy, tor Tee importance getting through the Senate; stain on the reputation of the Serb bur Mr. Borah has Biven hiv essedt to them, , nation; but at cleared the way for the rie so that difficulty may not be serious. EN of Serbia and the building of the power How much the treaties are actually =: ful Yugoslav kinge ah Ot today. Thee worth is a question which our grand- SSeES. SORE Pow anit safe saying at children, perhaps, may be able to answer. the only blows ¢ at can safely be dealt t They were laughed at in the beginning 8 a man or a nation—or a party ina pe as a mere gesture, the expression of a —are those that are too heavy to high moral attitude; but even the gesture] WHEN the campaign orators get going avenged. ° is worth something. The reservations and | this fall we shall hear a great deal of interpretations that have limited the scope | downright nonsense on both sides, stuff | of the treaties have deepened their in-| that even the men who utter it, politicians tensity; but some of us are still skeptical | though they be, know better than to take enough to doubt whether gestures and | seriously. Earnest citizens who are grieved | attitudes and forms of words are going to | by this levity may cheer up a little if they Ls dissuade any government from doing}look at Mexico and Yugoslavia, where | THe Britis Prime Minister has at lengh what it thinks likely to serve its interest. | politics is still taken so seriously that men | been driven to admit that Britain suffes An enthusiastic Republican Congress-| are willing to murder their opponents. It| from a “state of permanent unemploy lo man, addressing a Methodist audience a| would be gratifying to hold thine the con-|ment.” = The Industrial Transference : couple of weeks ago, called this move of | sequences of the Obregon and Raditch as-| Board estimates that at best 2000 Mr. Kellogg's “the greatest bloodless revo-| sassinations are a proof that political | British workers will always be out od lution in the history of the world,” and | murder is never an effective instrument of | work; and that minimum is hardly eve B declared that the peace societies could get | policy; but that would not be precisely | likely to be approached in practice. ready to disband, thanks to the great re-| true. It is ineffective only when the mur-| Naturally the Labor leaders who woul Be, sults accomplished by American leader-|dered man leaves behind him a powerful | like to turn the Conservative governmest ship. On the same day, a Paris editor de-| party, cither dominant or too strong to be | out are indignant with what they call “as fined the treaties as meaning that “the| stamped out, which will naturally be ex-| abject confession of hopelessness and fat United States Government becomes the| tremely indignant at his death. General jure.” But the Laborite Mr. Ramsay Mx moral guardian of the status quo,” and|Obregon was a great man, more re-|donald’s remedies do not impress the out predicted that this government might find | sponsible than anyone else for the be-|sider as offering very much hope. He it necessary “to become in certain cases] ginnings of Mexican recovery; a figure} would have the unemployed set to work lr comicbooks.com