Life — April 27, 1911 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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NOT SEEING FACH OTHER IN THE RIGHT LIGHT Some Points of Our New Senator E have been used to thinking, since Judge Parker ran for President, that judges were too much detached from political life to make good candi- dates for office, That may be. Judge O'Gorman was not a candidate for Sen ator, and perhaps would not have been 2 good candidate; but there are several reasons why his late employment seems good preparation for the Senate As a judge in active practice in New York for twelve years, he has been in constant touch with contemporary life, and has known what was going on in business and in gencral conduct of humar airs. His training has been uninterrupted, yet for twelve years his judicial place has kept him out of ac- tive politics and out of all active asso- ciation with business enterprises. He has had no embarrassing clients and no commercial associations, No express company, no railroad, no assurance so- iety, no department store, no bank, no factory will have a spe good-will as Senator. Yet politan judge of high rept must be well schooled in the needs and rights of business. If he 1 been twelve years in jail he might have been equally well protected from embarrass- ing associations, but he would have got out of touch with affairs. But on the bench in New York he has had detach- ment without rust He has seven children, the youngest a son. We like to sce a bold man repre- sent the State of New York in the Sen- ate. A man who lives in New York and has seven children is a bold man; a man with confidence in life and a taste for living. Perhaps the new Senator is rich. We don't know. Anyhow, he sets a wholesome example of audaci us con- fidence. One has to go back a good ways to find a New York Senator with a real family. Senator Evarts had one; so did Senator Kernan; but Mr. Kernan did not live in New York and Mr. Evarts was never on the bench, A Senator who is alive and alert; of first rate legal abi and yet not tan- gled up with “ in 33 a resident of New York and yet the father of seven children—is it possible that we are get- man, such as lived THE BREAD WINNER in New York when fortunes cre smaller and ability was less concen- trated on the pursuit of dollars? Maybe so! Maybe so! At any rate the hope is cheering. Perhaps we got a real democratic Senator— who has cared and cares for life, as tinguished from all the anxious, raft of scrambling citizens who claw and crowd for any kind of money at any cost. An Awakening HOSE foolish and misguided par throughout the country who ol ject to have their children vaccinate are beginning to grow in numbers. In- asmuch as the heads of families still have something to do with the power of opinion, the wholesale results, as in ious places, are interesting. ntly the town of Montclair, N. J. cll-known suburb, noted for i variety of views on all subjects, took shy at personal liberty. The Board Education, backed up by the State law, issued an order that all pupils should be vaccinated before a certain date. Some of the parents objected, on the ground that they knew what was t for their children, As one of ther put it: “Let those who wish to be vacci be vaccinated; they are—aceordin their own belief—rendered safe by this THE DOLLAR ABOVE THE MAN comicbooks.com