Life — April 12, 1917 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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630 Little Boys I LIKE rumpled little boys, With collars upstanding And buttons missing; Little boys with rough red checks And freckled noses, And restless hands That are never still. 1 like neat little boys, In norfolk suits With white collars and dotted windsor ties; Little boys with shining, soapy faces And slicked back hair, still wet, And restless hands That are never still. I like little boys. Margretta Scott. Two Not of a Kind UR New York neighbor, the Trib- une, enquires: Does Mr. Wilson mean to retain Josephus Daniels and Newton D. Baker at the consequent peril to national safety? Nobody knows; not even Tumulty. But, while we're waiting, is it suitable to couple up Newton Baker with Jose- phus like that? Newton, like Standard Oil, is an Ohio product, and may have faults distrib- uted among his virtues. It is possible, and even likely, that we have had better Secretaries of War, but whether a good Secretary or a bad one, Newton is not the least bit like Josephus. Moreover, the claim is made nowa- days that Josephus is “the most vigor- ous Secretary of the Navy since the Civil War.” In the beginning his vigor made him all the worse, but he has seemed to be doing better this last six months, and if he has improved enough, his vigor is valuable. Possibly the pains taken to edu- cate Josephus may not have all been wasted. The editor of the Tribune is a great war expert, and ought, possibly, to be Secretary of War. Failing that, it is conceivable that we might go farther than Baker—farther, possibly, even than Daniels—and fare worse. If the Tribune had it to do, would it stop with replacing a couple of Sec- retaries? By no means! It would PORTRAIT OF A WORLD POWER make a clean sweep, and beginning in the White House, refill all the offices with responsible Republicans. But it cannot do that. Why, then, frgt over details? Let the tail go with the hide. Needs a New Job RROFESSOR SCOTT NEARING has detached himself from the edu- cational institution at Toledo which engaged him after his separation from the University of Pennsylvania. “Scott seems not to be the kind of cog that fits into the contemporary educational machine. He ought to try something else. He might enlist. Our Insecure Securities I* spite of the fact that Wall Street is peopled by many shrewd and far- seeing men: men who know how to get on the right side, the inside, the blind side and the weak side of our influential newspapers; men who are able to pull the drawstrings, the law- strings and the jaw-strings of able politicians and attorneys; men who can do many wonderful things in many wonderful wa) ‘yet there remains to be discovered one who has an unfailing method of making securities secure. HEN you meet a man who loves neither children nor music you meet a monstrosity,