Life — August 9, 1929 — page 33: what you’re looking at

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Be KIND to your digestion —chew BEEMAN’S after meals R. BEEMAN prescribed pepsin as a mild digestive stimulant 30 years ago. Then he combined it with chewing gum—the smoothest chewing gum he could perfect... Since then, mil- lions of digestions have known the benefit of Beeman’s Pepsin Gum. Today, millions of people chew it for its healthfulness and for its re- freshing flavor. aids digestion Life in Washington B* ONE of those happy coinci- dences which confirm our faith in Santy Claus, the Kellogg Treaty re- nouncing war goes into effect at the same time that the first of the wars it was designed to prevent is threatened between two of its signatories. Blood and irony seems to be the motto of Chi- nese and Russian militarists in Man- churia. Now that Washington is com- pelled to side with Moscow against Nanking, in the name of the sanctity of treaties, the rights of foreigners in China, and as a victim of an “aggressor nation,” Charlie Hughes must be turn- ing in the political grave he dug with his whiskers at the Washington Con- ference, when he threw away our power to maintain the Open Door in the Far East. The general feeling in the capital is that the Russians are in the right, that the Chinese seizure of the Chinese Eastern Railroad is the first step in a program of driving all foreigners out of China, that the League of Nations missed a bet in not trying to stop the conflict, and that there will be no war. If this is so, Stimson made a shrewd move in invoking those monuments to American guilelessness—the Treaty of Washington and the Kellogg Pact—as a means of preserving the peace. If there is war, Kellogg will have to re turn a lot of honorary degrees as hav- ing been obtained under false pretenses. My own guess is that, whatever hap- pens, the world will blame the Rus- sians, the Russians will blame us, and we will blame the Chinks. Prohibition took a turn for worse when George Wickersham, the valetudinarian Chairman of the Law Enforcement Commission, advised the assembled Governors to divide State and Federal enforcement on a retail- wholesale basis. It sounded so much like what Al Smith had to offer last fall tHat Senators Borah and Caraway read the wicked Wickersham out of the fold, only to find that the Meth- odist encyclical “clipsheet” approved it. At the same time, Calvin charac- teristically wrote a magazine article denouncing (not by name) govern- ment by organized minorities and a Federal court ruled that bootlegging did not constitute “moral turpitude.” Page Count Karolyi and Lady Cath- cart! the | | Sins THE WORLD'S | FINEST GAME DESERVES THE WORLD'S FINEST BALL > a THE IMPORTED “BLACK™ meshed or dimpled marked ONE DOLLAR The French Government finally rati-| (Continued on Page 34) comicbooks.com