Life — July 27, 1916 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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JULY 27, 1916" “* While there is Life there's Hope"* Published by LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY J. A. Mireurtt, Pres't. F course if the Prus- sian world- smash — organi- zation had not excellent abili- ties of a sort at its command it would not be so infernally dangerous. The arrival of the big German submarine in Balti- more was an advertisement that the Germans are good navigators and ex- cellent mechanics. And it was an in- teresting advertisement, but we hardly needed it, because a lot of excellent surface-going steam-vessels at Ho- boken and elsewhere attest the same thing. As a reminder the Deutsch- land better met a want, for we had almost forgotten that German marine mechanisms had any use except to pose as harbor ornaments, Aside from that, its coming, though interesting, does not seem vitally im- portant, Such carriers seem only fit for valuables and commodities of small bulk, like dyes, drugs and mail. It is undoubtedly a convenience and advantage for Germany to have direct, uncensored communication with these states. Her new carriers may be so increased in size and number as to fetch her appreciable amounts of cop- per and rubber. If the war keeps on long enough and the British are not able to catch these merchant subma- rines, no doubt their trade will de- velop very much. Besides everything else, they bring in new diplomatic problems and may get us into contro- versies with England, and so cheer the Teuton spi But all these results A. Mitten, Sec’y and Treas. 17 West Thirty-first Street, New York English Offices, Rolls House, Breams Bldgs., London, E. C. are hypothetical. All we know is that a new factor has come into the war that may turn out to be important, but does not look so at first sight. Meanwhile one sympathizes heartily with Thomas F. Timmins, of Pearl Street, New York, who is displeased because a tug named after him hung around for a week to meet the Deutschland and got his name in the paper. He does not like it. He is suing to have the tug’s name changed. don’t want any boat with my name,” he says, “to go out helping German submarines.” RESIDENT WILSON seems to like Tom Johnson Democrats from Ohio. Brand Whitlock is one, Secre- tary Baker is another, and certainly these two have done well by him. Now he has found a third in Judge Clarke, to fill the Hughes vacancy in the United States Supreme Court. That makes three fairly positive radicals Mr. Wilson has put into the Supreme Court. It scares some worthy people. An eminent Boston lawyer, favorable on many grounds to Mr. Wilson, explained last month his pur- pose to vote for Hughes by saying he did not wish to leave the Supreme Court exposed for another term to Mr. Wilson. The Brandeis appoint- ment had not suited this gentleman; perhaps this Clarke appointment may not suit him, but one is reminded of recent lines in a newspaper, to wit: You cannot make any improve- ment in this world without overrid- ing the satisfaction that men have in things as they are and -of which they are a contented and success- ful part. We find this observation credited to Hon. Elihu Root, but even people who are prone to dispute what Mr. Root says will admit that it is true. All the same, Judge Clarke seems professionally qualified and personally acceptable, and no doubt his appoint- ment will promptly be confirmed. One could have wished that a justice from the city of New York might have been followed by another from the same locality, and that seems to have been considered, but apparently it did not prove practicable, This administration is a stranger to the remnants of the Cleveland democracy in New York, and it is no more intimate than it can help with Tammany, When it has a place of real importance to fill, nobody from the Wall Street parish looks good to it. Another judicial appointment, that of Congressman James Hay of Vir- ginia to be a judge of the Court of Claims, is generally popular, and would have been better if it had come sooner, As chairman of the House Committee on Military Affai Mr. Hay has been a much more serious ob- struction to the public welfare than it will be possible for him to be as a judge of claims. Will, it not be possible, while this good work of promotion is going on, to create an office and salary of Editor of the Congressional Record and con- fer it on the Hon. Josephus Daniels? VERYBODY who feels sore about Mexico should read Secretary Lane's exposition of the President's Mexican policy in the World of July 16th. The suggestion has been freely offered that troops have had to be sent to the Mexican border because Wil- son bungled the job. Mr. Lane does