Life, 1907-03-21 · page 7 of 40
Life — March 21, 1907 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising**, not editorial content or political satire. The top half features an article titled "The Literary Zoo," discussing literary controversies—specifically about Jack London's "Before Adam" and Stanley Waterloo's "The Story of Ab," and debates over authorship and plagiarism in literature. The illustrations are **product advertisements**: a Goodrich Quick Detachable Tire and Rim ad (featuring a car), and a Keeley Cure ad for "Liquor and Drug Using" (a treatment facility). There is **no political cartoon** on this page. The only illustration with narrative content—the car image—is simply promotional imagery for the tire product. This is a typical mixed editorial-and-advertising page from an early 20th-century American magazine.
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White House. The General, one morn- ing, had occasion to see the President on pressing business, but the Nation’s ruler was nowhere to be found. General Bing- ham searched high and low. Finally he walked around the outer wall of the Executive mansion, and there, in a con- venient angle, stood the President of the United States—on his head. T! 2 discussion arising from similarity of theme in Jack London’s “Before Adam” and Stanley Waterloo’s earlier tale, “The Story of Ab,” has not been con- fined to the critics and the chronicl The authors themselves have been thresh- ing out the delicate question in an exchange of letters which are decidedly to the point, and which even border on the acrimonious. This correspondence has not been of a strictly confidential nature, and some of Mr. Waterloo’s friends are chuckling over its climax, which takes the form of a breezy suggestion to Mr. London. “Now, see here, Jack,” wrote, in effect, the creator of “Ab,” “you know a lot of things that I don’t know, and I know a lot of things that you don’t know. Suppose, hereafter, each man confines himself to the subjects he’s best informed about. Let me write about human beings, and you can write about dogs.” The originality of that suggestion is in itself indicative of genius, implying as it does an allotment of literary territory that would clear up the whole question of con temporary plagiarism, at least, and provide a specific field of endeavor for each prolific penman. It is all very well to say, with Miss Harraden’s book-seller, ‘*There are too many people writing books, and not enough people to dust them.” The tribe of writers has been multiplying like rabbits in Aus ever since the making of books was averred to be “without end.” From Genesis to the messages of our be- loved President, the injunction “Go forth and multiply” has been hearkened by the literary clansmen until they are as the sands of the sea. Hence, it is only a question, sooner or later, of following Mr. Waterloo’s suggestion to a logical con- clusion. A few years ago a literary maga- zine made a map of the United States, as- signing certain sections to authors who had acquired patent rights there—Owen Wister to Wyoming, Miss Murfree to j for Liquor and Tennessee, Thomas Nelson Page to Vir- i Fs ginia, etc.” But this idea, of course, was D U incipient and crude. ‘The crying need is ; rug sing not only for a physical division of territory h | —a division that in some instances shall not exceed in its extent certain city blocks —but an apportionment of subjects and For comradeship; for the good of the game ; for the general advancement of the industry ; one enthusiastic, buoyant, getting-all-that's-best-out-of-it sort of an automobilist is worth a half dozen of the apprehensive, looking-for-trouble kind. It's the difference between Security and Doubt and certain it is that on the tires depend which it shall be. Back of the manufacture of every GOODRICH Quick Detachable Tire and Rim is the firm belief that in helping others you help yourself. A GOODRICH FEATURE MUST BE A HELPING FEATURE So it is the Goodrich Integral Construction for strength; the Good- rich Tough Tread for durability and the Goodrich Quick Detachable Rim for safety and convenience, and all three for Security. THE B. F. GOODRICH COMPANY AKRON, OHIO York. 66-68 Reade St. Curcaco, 24 E. Lake St. CLEVELAND, 2188 Ninth St., S. E. MILADELPHIA, 1352 Arch St. Boston, 161 Columbus Ave. Oaktanp, ath and Washington Sts. si Main Si Los ANGELES, 818 South Broadway st. 3926-28 Olive St . 1536 Glenarm St SEATTLE, 310 First Ave., South ‘Snow Hill, E. C. A scientific remedy which has been skilfully and successfully administered by medical specialists for the past twenty-seven years. mental bounds as well. Suggestions along At the following Keeley Institutes : these lines come crowding thick upon us, 8 : Deighe, 1 St. tu Whee Pains but the subject is far too big for exploita- ae Een bass, ath, Net (fea) A Desai rottaence eke jon h ‘ Fontas, ste as satya. Pa Richmond. Va tion here. Grand Kay, Mic ‘ 2 Me x. 5 Toroato, Ont.. Canada. ‘A commercial age, forsooth! An age of 5 yoo Cclege ave, Busalos N'Y. Harraburgs Pa. Loodee: Eagland comicbooks.com