Life, 1916-03-02 · page 8 of 44
Life — March 2, 1916 — page 8: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three distinct pieces: 1. **"An Ominous Omission"** - A poem by Amos K. Wells criticizing Fashion as beautiful but soulless, created from nature's elements without capturing true essence. 2. **"Jews and the Supreme Court"** - Commentary on Mr. Brandeis's potential confirmation as the first Jewish Supreme Court Justice. It notes Judah P. Benjamin previously declined such a position. The piece contrasts Benjamin's old-school approach with Brandeis's modern philosophy, quoting criticism from someone named Schiff about "new Jews" focused on welfare rather than profit. 3. **"Shock"** and **"He Can Decide"** - A cartoon showing Joseph S. Frelinghuysen as a Republican Senate candidate, paired with a joke about judicial inconsistency regarding automobile thieves versus burglars. The final section praises President Wilson's decision-making capacity.
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Shock UST as one was getting ready to think that the hope of the world lies, after all, in its aristocracies, along. comes Joseph S. Frelinghuysen of New Jer- sey, offering himself as a Republican candidate for United States Senator, and splits an infinitive in his manifesto! “I will seek to energetically pro- mote,” he says, and leaves you.gasping, “Whom can we trust now?” UDGE: You let the burglar go to arrest an automobilist? Pottceman: Yes. The autoist pays a fine and adds to the resources of the State; the burglar goes to prison and the State has to pay for his keep. An Ominous Omission HEN Fashion, beauteous maid, was born, They took the freshness of the morn, They took the colors of the flowers, The fragrances of hidden bowers, The sweep of birds in curving flight, The radiant splendors of the light, The soft, enticing sway of song, The glories that to June belong, The fall of water flashing fair, And all the sheen of sunny air, Thus framing, from a myriad norms, This creature of a thousand forms. So winsome, sweet and delicate They sent her forth; and learned too late That when they made this lovely whole They somehow had left out the soul. Amos R. Wells, Jews and the Supreme Court F Mr. Brandeis is confirmed he will be the first Jew in the Supreme Court. But he is not the first Jew to be appointed. It seems that Franklin Pierce offered a seat on that bench to Judah P. Benjamin, who needed more money and declined it. Mr. Benjamin was a brilliant Jew of the old school. Mr. Brandeis is a bril- liant Jew of the newer school that Mr. Schiff spoke of when he said, in effect (so the story goes) : “ These new Jews are quite different from us of my time. We came here to make money, and we have had some success; but these newer heads are filled with quite other ideas; ideas about the welfare of hu- manity.” Mr. Brandeis, however, seems inci- dentally to have laid up some money, and can probably afford to go on the bench. He Can Decide WHATEVER has been put up to President Wilson to decide, he has decided. He has not wobbled. Let us remember that. If he has decided wrong, we must pay for it; but we can stand that, and we know that no one is always right But what we could hardly stand in a peace or war crisis would be a President who could not make de- cisions.