Life — November 16, 1928 — page 19: what you’re looking at

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A THOUGHT: is better to be Tithing than t0 thing. WEATHER FORECAST: Partly Cloudy. EDITORIAL We cannot say that the elec- tion of the 6th inst. went exactly to our liking, but we never saw an election that did, nor yet an election that went just opposite to our de- siderata, And yet we must admit that after the elections went the way we did not like them to go, things went on all right, or certainly no worse than usual. And when things went our way nothing very good happened, or cer- tainly no better than usual. So we've just about de- cided that the next time there’s an election we won't care what happens and will refuse to get excited, because t's the difference any- way? Nevertheless, it is al- ways the citizen's sacred privi- lege, nay duty, to take a lively interest in public af- fairs and vote, because if he neglects to do so, what will become of our vaunted rep- resentauve government? LOCAL NEWS “Os INDIANA Aw optimist is a feller who sys, “Ha, ha, we'll win th’ ext ume."* Earl Derr Biggers, author 0 ven Keys t’ Baldpate,"’ an’ other successful novels, wuz a wekome caller at our office re- cently. Mr. Biggers, years ago when he wuz a copy reader fer th’ Bobbs-Merrill_ Company, helped me t’ assemble my first book, an’ fecalled durin’ his visit that I re- marked at th’ completion o° th’ pb, “I hope t* T at least Gta blue serge suit out of it." “Just Pups” Let us not forget that, as this issue of Home Lire goes to press, the dog is man’s best friend ***"T don’t believe I kin re- call any other election where rum peddlers, Baptists, oil _grafters, drunkards, charmin’ _ hostesses, rohibitionists, tariff reformers, beer czars, Methodists, union men, burglars, ‘magnates, home brew- ers, an’ reformers, all got t'gether on th’ same candidate. wy All th’ tricks 0’ politics, th’ speeches, th’ perades, th’ whispered stories, th’ prosperity bunk, brass bands, flag wavin' an’ promises, are designed t’ sway th’ ignorant, an’ I believe th’ Repub- lican party has th’ edge when it comes t° designers. ***Lafe Bud has sold his brown derby t° a trombone player. ***Meredith Nicholson, au- thor o° ‘Th’ Cavalier o° Ten- nessee,"’ Elmer Davis, author o° “Giant Killer," an’ McCready Huston, author 0’ “‘Dear Sena- tor,"" supposed t' be th’ low-down on Indianny politics, all famous Hoosiers, visited th’ Halle Book Fair at Cleveland, last week, an’ called on th’ trade. ***Ye correspondent has dedi- cated his new book, ‘Barbed Wire," t th’ farmer “who's up agin ever'thing but th’ gout."* ©*Editor Cale Fluhart, o’ th’ Weekly Sliphorn, who took t’ his bed worryin’ o'er th’ significance o° th’ heavy registration, wuz able tv worry down an egg tday. Abe Martin, SPOKANE Merchants say the farmers hereabouts are buying bigger vic- trolas and louder radios than ever before. They say they never knew an election to have such quick re- sults. **°R. C. Dillingham has re- tired from the paint business, hav- ing managed to save a little of the root of all evil while he was saving the surface. i The police force has had another shakeup, but looks about the same. ***As after every election, to the victors belong .the spoils, but there is some complaint among the boys of an acute spoils shortage. ***Lester Livengood, of the Taxpayers’ Economy League, after telling the city, county and school board fathers how much they could spend next year, went and got married. He sends word that he is still for economy, however. **°Wilbur Greenough is go- ing to move his grocery store nearer to where the customers are, also to a place where the ladies can park their town cars while they are pricing pruncs. Stoddard King. PHILADELPHIA Don’r send out of town for mince meat ingredients. Buy from our local merchants and bootleg- gers where you are known. um A man who had been summoned for jury duty walked into a local theater here recently thinking it was the court house, only to discover that it was a thea- ter done over to look like a court house for a play about a murder wial. What won't they do next? ***Miss Suzanne Burke of our town, and James M. Neville, writing partner of the noted writer, Glenna Collett, have been cloping together recently, fiss Emma Muller of the George W. Childs School has started a band among her pupils, they using blocks for instruments, she playing the piano. A wash boiler and a derby hat is all that's needed to make the orchestra com- plete. ur Wedding bells will ring soon for Miss Eliza Atlee Woolston, of these parts, and Mr. Sidney Sayre Quarrier, Short Hills, N. J., he having presented her with a beautiful ring between classes at the College of Physicians and Surgeons. Mr. Quarrier intends to be a doc- tor. John Forbes. SAN FRANCISCO “Wet,” says Town Marshal Dan O'Brien, proudly, **Hal- loween has come and gone again and the Golden Gate sull is where it always was."" ***Pete Bernhard, the Ferry Bldg. tonsorialist, had a swell edge on his razor Monday, all were agreed, but some thought his dope on the election was terrible. wr Nights are getting so chilly that some of our young ladies have taken to wearing their heavy chiffon stockings again, ac- cording to reports from strect car starters at Powell and Market Sts., who generally know, ***Highest honors at the Bo- hemian Club orchestra rehearsal comicbooks.com