Judge, 1916-09-30 · page 27 of 28
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This page combines a social commentary cartoon with advertising for a book series. The headline "Don't Be a Man With a Hoe" references a famous 1885 poem by Edwin Markham critiquing agricultural labor and exploitation. The accompanying image shows a laborer bent over his work. The satirical message exhorts working-class men to educate themselves through reading scientific works rather than remaining trapped in manual labor. It promotes the "Library of the World's Greatest Scientists"—featuring Darwin, Spencer, Huxley, and Lombroso—as the path to social mobility and intellectual advancement. The rhetoric appeals to Progressive Era values (early 1900s): faith in science as liberating, self-improvement through education, and intellectual cultivation as a means to escape poverty. The phrase "don't be a 'slacker'" uses contemporary WWI-era language. This is primarily an advertisement disguised as social commentary, selling expensive books to aspirational readers by framing ignorance as a form of servitude and education as the route to equality and success.
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A Handsome New Edition at Less Than Half Price ON IMMEDIATE ORDERS i Jing this great reduction in price— a price absolutely unprecedented for books of this character—the books are issued in a style superior to that in w ve ever appeared before. Each volume is 8 inches x 54 inches. The binding is a rich, dark ercen, silk ribbed neled backs, finished with gilt silk headband nes are printed on a pure white paper lustrations in half tone which ting as the text There are many are just as i Titles of These Inspiring Volumes Volt. THE ORIGIN OF species SURVIVAL SPF Fittesr, exc THE ORIGIN oF speciey, CHARLES DARWIN AFFINITIES OF ORGAME BEINGS, ETC. CHANCES DARWIN EXPRESSION OF THE cengnions IN MEN Lane ANIMALS: 7 CHARLES DARWIN WANT INTERESTING ILPUSTRATIONS THE CRIMINAC TERE TR THe SociA EU ee F. CAESAR LOMBR (PROFUSELY ILLGSTRATEDY oe MAN'S PLACE IN NATURE ULLUSTRATEDI OS® + HUXLEY . SOCIAL STATICS OR Onoer EROCAT SPENCER FRAGMENTS OF science. 6 AND Lessons In Onn ILLUSTRATED)” YREALE Vol. 1. Vol. 118 Vel, tv. Don’t Be a Man With a Hoe —A LITTLE HIRED MAN TO THE OX’ “BROTHER ’—-ALL YOUR LIFE! Stop grubbing with your little hoe long cnough to look around upon the yreat world about you. In this land of equal opportunity, with the highest by choosing now prove your right to stand on an equality the only path that will lead you to real and that broad outlook on life without which the material rewards of are mere dross tart today to cultivate your brain by scientific reading, by study, by daily association with great scientific minds “This is a scienti business, agricul by the successful, nas his brain is cultivated j In this, the most portentous period in t brains. Don’t be a “slacker""—a conscript; army: of modem progress. Lay up for yourself an intellectual asset moth nor rust can corrupt, nor thieves break Are y« tion were dispelled over fifty years ag the stories of whose wonderful discove throu: 1 still thinking in terms of the Middle Ages? ture, war, are all conducted along scientific lin ust so far is man removed from the ox and the ass. he World's history, your country needs its best be a voluntcer—a grenadier—a leader in the great against age and the time of adversity which neither in and steal, ~The miasmas of ignorance and supersti- gh the efforts of Darwin and his fellow scientists are told in— The Library of the World’s Greatest Scientists DARWIN—SPENCER—HUXLEY—TYNDALL—LOMBROSO Books That Agitated Society with a Revolutionary Ferment ntists studied life from every angle. They will help you solve its prc They will open your eyes to an understanding of its’ mysteries—to' an appreci- ation of its potentialities These great s sh entertainment and discover new The story told in The Origin of Species is as der fol as any tale of evieutal ench tionized modern thou f speculation a Nature's immu We are secins in the phys problems has already ai h of nations, A Wonderful Bargain pense in the manufactut le contract f these celebrated tes a fine edi Tyndall and World's Greates: By assuming all the risk an 4 in The Library of th ntists. But the PRICE MUST BE ADVANCED ¢ gone that were made before cin the coat of materials. Th Even binding board has increased after the few remaining sets a ated 1 has doubled. As the result of this increase in cost, we can obtai e sets to offer at the present bargain price, Therefore Send Coupon Today Prof. Lombroso’s Book on Criminology As an illustration of the wide scope of this set, there is the volume on ‘The Female Offender, by Prof. Lombroso. ‘© more startling revelations can be found anywhere than those contained in the picture he draws of one aspect of the under- world in this book. ‘The Social Evil is as old as | creation. We find references to it in the records of the earliest. civilizations, ‘The descendants of Jezebel and Messalina are to be found in every |steatum of society. ‘The air of “The man” is located in almost every community study of therefore is complete th not take inte nt her malign influence, and the correct measures necessary to combat that influence. Prof. Lombroso's work made an epoch in criminology because of the wide scope and syste of his researches. Soc y acer Sent NOW brings you the en- tire 7 volumes, charges pre- paid. YOU TAKE NO RISK. Money back if not satisfied. LE EE od Na Brunawick Subs:ription Co., 449 Brunswick Bldg., New York Ci ton the 7-volume set of . charges t $1.00 books, of to return them at once if not F Name. Address City. Oceupation...... comicbooks.com