Life, 1916-01-06 · page 29 of 48
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**"Hands Off, Judge!"** criticizes Justice Gigeritch for overstepping his authority. An Italian mother (Maria Bucellato) sought a writ of habeas corpus to remove her 20-year-old daughter Angelina from a convent. Though the daughter appeared to choose staying, the Justice lectured the mother about the honor of religious service. The article argues a judge shouldn't use his state-granted power to impose moral judgments on parental decisions, especially when influencing a young woman's irreversible vows at age twenty. **"Why Not Try Young-Jim?"** proposes Senator James Wadsworth of New York as a Republican presidential alternative to Wilson. The piece contrasts their personalities: Wadsworth is described as robust, good-looking, and decisive (making his own appointments), versus Wilson's literary approach. It notes Wadsworth could "return to farming" like Cincinnatus if defeated. The underlying irony: promoting a privileged aristocrat as an "antithesis" to Wilson while acknowledging concerns about extended presidential terms. The minor cartoons mock editorial priorities and romantic indecision.
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“COME AN’ STAND HERE, MOTHER, Why Not Try Young-Jim? TH Republicans seem to have as yet no handy candidate for President. lf they want a complete contrast to Mr. Wilson, why not take Senator Young-Jim Wadsworth of New York? He is good of a kind that is pretty ac- curately the antithesis of the kind that Mr. Wilson is. He is young (thirty- nine), cheerful, robust, good-looking and able. He has-good manners, good sporting standards, energy and a gift for dealing with men. He would prob- ably make an excellent executive. Mr. Wilson writes his own speeches and takes advice about appointments. Mr. Wadsworth would probably make his own appointments and take advice about his speeches, He has lived as a rancher in Texas, and probably has in- teresting views about Mexico, He has been manager of a summer baseball nine, is a farmer by profession, and, being married to a daughter of John Hay, is connected with diplomacy It may be objected that to make him IT’S LOVELY AN’ WARM” President at forty would be to put too early a finish to a promising career. But a farmer (vide Cincinnatus) can always go back to farming! Besides, if a young President did well, the coun- try might want to keep him along on the job for a much greater succession of terms than we have been used to. There are things which we are learning nowadays to be much more afraid of than extended terms for Presidents. REAT EDITOR (white with rage): Paper twenty minutes late! What do you mean by this? Assistant Epitor: We had to run in the last installment of Betty Bodi- kin’s article on the Rotter divorce case. “Oh, well! Why didn’t you say so? I thought you had held it up for news.” for William II and Franz Josef, in- cluding sidings for Constantine and Ferdinand, 29 Hands Off, Judge! “Tell your client I should think she would feel proud to have her daughter enter the convent and give herself to God when many other young women of her age and attrac- tiveness are giving themselves over to seeking pleasure,” said Justice Giegerich —N. ¥. Sun, Dec. , 1915. S not Justice Giegerich exceed- ing the proper duties of his office in offering these remarks? According to the story in the Sun, Mrs. Maria Bucellato applied for a writ of habeas corpus to get her twenty- year-old daughter Angelina out of the convent of the Sacred Heart. The daughter became a novitiate several months Tlie mother said the daughter had told her she wished to leave the convent. The daughter ap- peared at the hearing with two nuns and told her mother’s attorney she had decided to remain in the convent. Very well; but why should Justice Giegerich throw the influence of the powers entrusted to him by the State of New York to balk a parent in get- ting back her child? Is it his judicial duty to rebuke the reluctance of this Italian mother to have her daughter “give herselt to God,” with vows pro- spectively irrevocable, at the age of twenty? Dentist (absently): sue Loves ME, SUE LOVES ME NOT comicbooks.com