Life — April 10, 1913 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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L'ENFANT TERRIBLE “WELL, WHAT DO YOU WANT “WHAT DOT WANT? WHY, I sides the reproductive instinct, that men as yet have learned only imper- fectly to control, and that all the votes of all the women would not be likely to control any better. However, in these particular matters mentioned we have hopes that men are going to accomplish appreciable im- provement, and, ‘if they do, a great ceal of it will be due, not to the votes, but to the work, of women. The women social workers are a very im- portant factor nowadays in all social problems. Most of them are very good women, and. some of them are full of talent. Most of them want the vote for women because they think it would WANT THE WHOLE THING.” benefit conditions. We have word, however, from a seventh’s son seventh son, that it would not improve condi- tions a mite, but that it would have the effect of getting these valuable social workers off their incomparable job and into politics, where they would soon cease to be disinterested prompt- ers, advisers and leaders of men, as now, and become mere politicians. T in the direction of Freedom continues. GovERNM the New The President has at last signed an 723 ambassador to London—Mr. Walter H. Page, the opulent publisher, who has agreed to take the place, and is able, we believe, to furnish a satisf tory bond. We had rather hoped that the President, for the fuller enlighten- ment of Congress, would find a Curtius with courage enough to jump into the abyss of St. James unprotected except by his ambassador's salary. Failing that we must rejoice that Mr. Page i: to go. Through a long and :adustrious career we have watched ‘im accumu- late the wealth so convenient for the diplomatic representatives of thrifty country. He was editor of the Forum, he was editor of the Atlantic Monthly, he has edited an encyclopedia and acted as literary adviser to a pub- lisher, he is a trustee of the John F Slater fund (for uplifting the emanci- pated in the South), a member of the General Education Board, vice-presi- dent of the Conference for Education in the South, and a partner of Mr. Frank Doubleday in the publishing business. All these lucrative empl ments have at last qualified Mr. Page to live comfortably in London as our representative. We are glad he is going there. He can talk to edification and also to enter- tainment either standing up or sitting down; he has a very agreeable voice and can say exceptionally agrecable things with it; his appearance is ingra- tiating and, reclothed in London, he will do us great credit. Our English breth- ren are sure to like him. We congratu- late them that he is going their way. Mr. Bryan, who had business and a birthday at home, had wonderful es- capes in leaving Omaha a little ahead of the tornado and in crossing Ohio without life line or breeches buoy. In his absence his department was be- reaved of Mr. Huntington Wilson, lost out into the discard along with dollar- diplomacy, for which there seem to be very few mourners. Since then, and up to time of this writing, the sore af- fliction and distress of our mid-West- ern brethren have engrossed most of the attention of government, and of the people, all other measures and topics seeming unimportant while the dead were still unburied, and there were thousands surviving to be rescued and relieved. our comicbooks.com