Life — July 19, 1929 — page 33: what you’re looking at

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ry “eB “SEE Life in Washington HE happiest event since Andrew Volstead failed of re-election to Congress occurred when Hoover ve- toed the Prohibition Unit’s scheme to cross-fertilize the three “R's” with anti-alcoholic pollen and reap a crop of law-abiding Baptists. Dr. Doran’s suggested slogans for the public schools contained such gems as “Let us use alcohol, not waste it” (and so say we, all of us), and such biological truisms as that “It takes two to make a boot- legger.” The President luckily dis covered that it was not the Govern- ment’s function to teach little Johnnie that a great many little drinks make a great big drunkard. The Treasury drew in its milk-white horns and for one bright moment it seemed as though Assistant Secretary Lowman might resign. The real fun, however, has been supplied by General Dawes. He made our London Embassy dry, for the quite sufficient reason that he never served drink at home. Judging by the price of good whiskey in Eng- land, he ought to be able to live on his salary now. Then he appeared at Court in what was described as “sim- ple American evening dress”—or what the well-dressed waiter wears anywhere in the world—being the first of our envoys to the Court of St. James’ to resist the lure of silk knee-breeches. His naval conversations with the Brit- ish have been going so well that they now talk of demilitarizing their naval bases in the West Indies. The Treasury outdid itself in its annual guessing contest, known as the budget, when the deficit it had prophe- sied turned out to be a $185,000,000 surplus at the end of the fiscal year. Secretary Mellon admits that he is the greatest Secretary of the Treasury since Alexander Hamilton. A few more such estimates and he will be the great- est Secretary since Carter Glass. Smoot, the beet-sugar daddy of the Senate, is said to favor a sliding scale sugar tariff. We prophesy that, at the end of each slide, the Mormon beet growers will be found safe at the home plate. The French made a last minute ef- fort to avoid ratifying the debt agree- ment or paying us $400,000,000 on Au- gust 1. Secretary Stimson assured Am- bassador Claudel that he, the Secre- tary, had French blood in his veins, whereupon France gave up all hope. —j. F. These X-ray views show the automatic replenishiog valve, air veots and the reservoir which bolds a reserve supply of aid aod climinates the seed of packing the instrament against high working pressures, The ove moving part of the Hovdaille instrement is the double or balanced pistoo, With pressure chambers oa both sides of the shaft, side threst is ecutralized aod wear is reduced to the absolute eiciwen, that your car be | HOUDAILLE SE. equipped “Because (1) Houdailles are not in the experimental stage. They are the result of 27 years of experience in building the hydraulic shock absorber which is now the world’s standard of comparison. (2) Houdailles are easy to adjust. (3) Houdaille’s double or balanced piston assures supreme riding comfort for years. (4) Houdaille’s patented reservoir automatically replenishes the fluid in the working chambers. (5) Houdaille’s patented air vent allows the escape of gas and air from the working chambers. Fluid mixed with air or gas changes viscosity and in a hydraulic shock absorber causes loss of resistance. Houdailles have been selected on merit by the engineers who build Lincoln, Pierce-Arrow, Cunningham, Stearns-Knight, Jordan, Ford, Nash Advanced Six, Chrysler Imperial, Stude- baker President, Graham-Paige and many European cars. Your car dealer can supply Hondailles HOUDE ENGINEERING CORPORATION, BUFFALO, N. Y. HOUDAILLE HYDRAULIC DOUBLE ACTING SHOCK ABSORBERS comicbooks.com