Life — May 24, 1929 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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SHOCK ... and they learned about HYDRAULICS from HOUDAILLE HE car you will drive tomorrow is on the drafting boards of automobile engineering departments now. It will be engineered on hydraulic shock absorbers . . . cushions of fluid which absorb the upward and downward thrust and give the smocthest ride over the roughest roads to anywhere. For 27 years Houdaille has pioneered the hydraulic double acting shock absorber with double or balanced piston as the ultimate equipment for motor cars. The engineers of Lincoln, Pierce-Arrow, Cunningham, Stearns-Knight, Jordan, Ford, Nash Advanced Six, Chrysler Imperial, Studebaker President, Graham-Paige and many European cars have made Houdailles standard equipment, No manu- facturer having adopted Houdailles has ever given them up. Your car dealer can supply Houdailles at the new low prices. HOUDE ENGINEERING CORPORATION, BUFFALO, N. Y. HOUDAILLE HYDRAULIC DOUBLE ACTING For the Smoothest Ride over the Roughest Roads to Anywhere ABSORBERS Life in Washington Did you see how in the last minute of play Owen Young picked up the Reparations Conference after the Allies had fumbled it and is racing fifty-eight annuities to a touchdown? Actually, Young’s new scheme 1s a little better than the face-saving play the signals called for. What he pro- poses is a plan which may work for the next five years or so. By reducing the French and British shares in the proceeds he has also neatly shifted from Berlin responsibility for a pos. sible failure. If the Allies accept, 1 suppose we'll go into a huddle and | await the loud yells of “Shylock!” which will greet any modest attempt to prevent our being the goat. I haven't yet seen the new Tariff Bill but from all accounts its publi- cation marks the opening of a good old-fashioned tariff fight. We haven't had one since the Payne-Aldrich epi- sode in the Taft inter-regnum and they are such fun! The House Bill is more or less what Hoover wants, so the Sen- ate is lining up with blackjacks, blud- geons, brass knuckles and shillelaghs and by the time the Finance Commit- tee is through with it, the President will be wondering whether there isn’t something to be said for Mussolini. The Senate, of course, is engaged in hunting cautiously for a weak spot in Hoover's popularity. For example, after Mr. Mellon has been Secretary of the Treasury for only eight years, the Senate is suddenly smitten with Constitutional doubts as to his cligi- bility and is investigating the incred- ible rumor that he owns some stock in the Aluminum Company. Again, the President having debunked Ex- port Debentures, the Senate has shown an abrupt passion for that peculiar sys- tem of subsidizing grain shippers and importers in the name of Farm Relief. After a brief armistice, the Social War is raging again. The Washing- ton Post paid off an obscure grudge against the Belgian Ambassador by jubilantly and prematurely announcing his recall. Mr. Stimson issues a pub- lic apology for the Post's bad manners. And Alice Longworth allegedly re- fused to accept an invitation to an en- tertainment at which Mrs. Gann was to have precedence. As wife of the Speaker of the House, and also as a Roosevelt born, Mrs. Longworth’s so- cial rights are not lightly to be set aside. —]. F. LIFE: Published Weekly by Life Publishing Company, $98 Madison Ave., New York, N. Y. Subscription, $5.00. Vol. 93, No. 2429, May 24, 1929. Eat’d as 2ad Class Matter New York, June 8, 1883, at New York Post Office, under act of March 3, 1879. Pristed in U.S. A. Ent’d as 2nd Clas tter at the Post Office at Cleveland, Ohio. Ent'd as 2nd Class Matter at the Post Office Dept., Canada. Copyright 1929, Life Pub, Co., in U.S., England an ition Pe t comicbooks.com