Life — June 22, 1916 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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1164 Life’s Fresh Air Fund ¢ cf 191s, Live's Frese Ate Fux has been tm operation twenty-nine years. In i has expended $137,195.60 and he Country to Inclus children. pported entirely by beq tributions, twhich are acy n column Previously acknowledged ..... tralian Branch of ‘the 8 y for Prevention and Relief « Tuberculosis .. V. Le Sage Louis, De Dorothy T sadebineds tot. 1 St * 100 Miss Caroline C. 10,00 $1,231.63 ACKNOWLEDGED WITH THANKS One package of clothing from Derby, Branchville, Conn. One package of clothing Schaub, Branchville, Conn. Mrs. from Mrs. VOSTALS PROM GUESTS Dear Pa Please send me se to me because -very other boys have money and we aint. And dont send me the 20 cents untill Task for them that a bee stung Loves and the techer fixed it. Your boy Toxy Pavticct, Branch Field, Conetect. Deax Motu: Im getting along fine and getting as $a pig. and how is all in the family please send me some money. Gooa-by from Anna, Branch field, Connecticut. A months of investigation and discussion the Senate finally confirmed Mr, Brandeis, with applause from a large company of worthy peo- ple who think he will make a valuable judge, and in the teeth of a mino: report signed by the eight Republican members of the Judiciary Committee, which declared it would he a great misfortune to admit to sit in the Su- preme Court a man whose reputation for honesty and integrity had been proved to be bad. This is a very serious disparity of opinion, but back of it there is much more than a question of common hon- esty. Back of it there is nothing less than the question of the attitude of Mr. Brandeis’ mind to the existing or- der. Mr. Brandeis is a Jew, and has a different background to his mind than the one that is behind the minds of the eight Republican senators who deplore his elevation to our highest court. It is different also from the background of the minds of the mem- AT LIFES FRESH AIR FARM PRIZES FOR WINNERS OF FOOT RACES Mr. Brandeis Is Confirmed bers of the bar in Boston, w York and other places who opposed his ap- pointment. His mental impulses and standards are neither of Pilgrim nor Puritan derivation, but came a long time since from Jerusalem by way of Germany. Not all that looks right to old-time Boston looks right to him. Not all that looks wrong to Boston looks wrong to him. His prejudices, if he has any, are not the prejudices of Boston. New England has not much shaped his mind, though it has provided it with a field to work in. There is abundant testimony that it is an exceedingly able mind, admir- ably trained in law and business, and directed in an uncommon degree to the improvement of the condition of mankind, About Mr. Brandeis’ abili- ties there is practically no dispute. About the fervency and sincerity of his altruism there is much dispute, but the backers of his appointment believe in it absolutely. President Wilson he- lieves in it. So does President Mr. Root, Mr. Fox, President Lowell and a large company of other able and respected gentlemen seem not to be- lieve in it. The Senate voted 47 to 27 in favor of President Wilson's opinion. If Mr. Brandeis accepts his appoint- ment and stays in the Supreme Court instead of going off to promote Zion- ism in Syria, his value will be in the very fact that the Jewish background of his mind gives him a point of view in human affairs somewhat different from that which prevails in this country. In this there is an advantage in this time of upheaval and the overhauling of everything. The existing order in this country is very imperfect. It needs various treatments and readjustments. Education is on the operating table. So is our whole industrial system. The relations of men are going through a process of readjustment all over the world, and this country is not an ex- ception. At such a time critical minds of the best quality that are not over- much moulded by existing prejudice comicbooks.com