Life, 1905-12-21 · page 4 of 30
Life — December 21, 1905 — page 4: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising** rather than satirical content. The dominant features are commercial advertisements for: 1. **Goodyear Detachable Tires** - prominently featuring a man holding a tire, emphasizing that this tire won't rim-cut and can be removed without tools 2. **Baker Electric Vehicles** - showcasing early electric cars as luxury "aristocrats of motordom" 3. **Wassermann Brothers** and **Centmeri** (glove company) ads The right column contains "The Tomfoolery in the Public Schools," a satirical poem criticizing educational systems for creating "manufactured men" rather than developing individual character and practical skills. The satire targets education policy, not specific figures, arguing that schools produce conformity instead of fostering genuine human development and craftsmanship.
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-LIFE- This AUTO TIRE NO Sir, you can’t makeit Rim Cut. We (and others) have ridden this Tire with- out a particle of air in it for Twenty-five Miles over City Pave- ments going 15 miles and more an hour. It never even marred the casing nor did it injure the inner tube. That tire didn’t creep a particle, and it didn’t come off the Rim, either, though there was not a bolt, screw, rod or other device to hold it on. We call this tire The Goodyear Detachable It’s patented. It’sa new Tire—a better Tire i 3 —a tire that wipes out at one sweep 90% of all © convince you. Automobile Tire Troubles. WE CAN DO IT! The Goodyear Tire G6 Rubber Co., Wayne St., AKron, O. Rranchos in following citics: Boston. 6 Merrimac St; New York, 23 W. {ith St.; Chicago, 110 Lake St.: Cincinnati, 2 E. Fifth St; St. Louis 4 Morgan St: od, 69 Frankfort St.; Philadelphia, 151 Spring St; San Francisco, Geo. P, Moore & Co., (28 Golden Gato Ave.; Huifalo, 719 Main St, Denver, 2 Sixteenth St; Detroit, 22 Jefforson Avo. Bailey tread furnished on Goodyear Tires (all sizes) if desired. BEAUTIFUL A ASSORTMENT of gloves that Fit well, Wear well and Look well. New kid gloves imported weekly from our factory, Grenoble, France. $1.50 the p: 3 years on Broadway, Telephone. 1135 Gramercy. 1225 Chestnut St. Phila. If you use our patented Universal Rim with this tire you can remove your Tire and put it back in 60 seconds by the watch with no tools but the hands, These are only a few of the trouble saving features of this wonderful tire. We don’t want you to take our word for a single one of them—We'll Prove It to You. It will only take a minute to show you the Why and Wherefore it you'll’ stop at our booth at either the New York or Chicago Automobile Shows. Or drop into one of our Branch Stores and we'll Show You There. Or Write Us and we'll send you a book that will Show You. Don’t spend a cent for one of these Tires until you are convinced, but in your own interest give us a chance WASSERMANN BROTHERS 42 Broadway, New York New York Stock Exchange Members of -.) New York Coffee Exchange | Chicago Board of Trade BRANCH OFFICES: Wdorf-Astoria Hot corner 46th St, aud b Ave, Fifth Aver Ocean Aven months, e, West End, N.J., daring Sammer BAKER ELECTRIC VEHICLES comprise Imperials, Stanho THE BAKER DEPOT used on city streets. THE in SUTEME:Denot, Carriages and Broughams (inside and outside driven). alight and thoroughly efficient vehicle with all the speed that can legally be ble for use ia summer or winter and under all weather conditions. BROUGHAM is the lightest vehicle of its type made, yet its perfect proportion of weight to opera ngth renders it extremely durable. anne . ‘All BAKERS are electric vehicles and all are designed to meet the requirements of the most discriminating buyers. Every bit of material is the choicest, all workmanship the best. Every Baker vehicle is finished and upholstered by hand. Their every appointment has an air of richness and refined, dainty el nothing but the best, THE BAKER agencies located in all the large ¢ duction to our nearest agent, entitling you toa THE BAKER MOTOR VEHICLE CO., 10 JESSIE STREET, CLEVELAND, O. Regance that must appeal to thove who know and will have ARISTOCRATS. OF MOTORDOM. . Write for Catalog and with it we will send you a personal letter of intro Baker ride. The Tomfoolery in the Public Schools, The following—"The Manufactured Man"—was recently written by an English schoolmaster and first appeared in the English Liberty Review. THE MANUFACTURED MAN, UR general condition now is wretched, people say; dso, to save society from sinking to decay, d of Education has evolved a novel plan To make a gi to make a boy a man, Hands up, i ng through your nose; Heels raised, rch; walking on ir toes. The teachers now are set to make each kiddy, if they a woman a ck can, A regulated, cultivated, manufactured man. © ated muscle and his exhibition chest, ect and morals like the rest, sas he marches to and fro, He is meant to save the empire and to conquer every foe. Hand drill, wand drill; drill for every tim tongue drill, will make a man of him; = to boss the universe from Guinea to Japan, matic, mathematic, manufactured man, “Less work and bigger wages, is the labor union I] shout, But little Johnny Scholar has to labor hard for u With ten years’ penal servitude he cultivates his br: | And ge a flogging for | ion way; ip bim, |, for that’s his only pay. nN nd the pedagogue are doing what they the talent of a manufactured man. : He work for wages, but he smokes a2 Ol Hard-handed toil is not for him, but he can swear and bet; If poverty distresses him, the ranting “labor group” Will rush the rates and taxes for his daily bow! of soup. Oh John, lo Joh Would come, co: who'd have thought the time 1 come, when work would be a No w As a fer that the Hooligan is leading now the van never-working, labor-shirking, spot-the-winner Oh tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor, smith and ploughman, too, Our teachers now have turned their backs on all such men as yc With Sandow making muscte and with Fox to give us grace. The earth will soon be peopled with an artificial race. Hot-house school-boys, sitting in a row; Prize-bred pupils, only kept for show; It's Darwin's evolution on the Macnamara plan; The “Survival of the Fittest” is a manufactured man. Like a Puneh-and-Judy puppet or a wooden marionette, Each scholar now must always stand or sit as he is set; You pull the string, the figure moves; for that is how the State Requires its patent citizens constructed up-to-date. Clock-work school-boy, driven by a spring; Wound up, ground up, treated like a thing; They want to run creation on the automatic plan, And patent every noodle as a manufactured man, Away with this tomfoolery! Let Nature be our guide. Her laws are better far than those evolved by human pride. “I The garden, farm and workshop, with humanity to ac rule, go Give truer education than the governmental school. Spade-work, trade-work, work with saw and plane; Health-work, wealth-work, for muscle, blood and brain: To these adhere, and banish all the idiotic clan Who wish to make of every boy a manufactured man, James Philpott, Gosroarm, Newcastie-ox-Tyxe, England.