Life, 1908-10-15 · page 19 of 28
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## Main Cartoon: "An Old College Chum for a Teetotaller" The cartoon depicts two well-dressed men evicting a third from a café, satirizing medical ethics violations. The accompanying text references Doctors Detre and Von Pirquet, who conducted tuberculosis serum experiments on poor children in Washington without parental consent. The doctors justified this by noting the subjects were "poorer and uneducated class" whose parents need not be consulted. The satire highlights the hypocrisy: these same doctors would likely object if experiments were performed on *them* or wealthy citizens. Justice Brewer's quote reinforces this—even he recognizes doctors' dangerous attitudes. ## Secondary Article: Groton School Criticism Life defends the exclusive preparatory school Groton against detractors claiming it discourages athletics. The magazine fact-checks a *Broadway Magazine* article alleging Groton prohibits baseball and football, proving instead that Groton students excel at these sports and attend elite universities (Harvard, Yale). **Overall point**: Both pieces mock hypocrisy—medical professionals exploiting the powerless, and writers spreading false claims about institutions.
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FOR EXCHANGE—AN OLD COLLEGE “ Suffer Little Children to Come Unto Me™ OCTOR DETRE, of Bu pest, and Doctor Von Pir- yuet, of Vienna, have been conducting some interest ing experiments on children for the edification of the In ternational C ess on Tuberculosis CHUM FoR A TEETOTALLER held recently in Washington. Doctor Ten children were gi T am rot at libert children tested. ‘a ts of children sent here are, as a rule, of the poorer and unedu- cated class. We did not consult these parents before ig the children, and as we not have their permission they might b clarmed should y sce their names in print How absurd for ordinary parents to he serum... e names of the 417 be alarmed at a little thing like this! Of course, it is a highly honorable thing for doctors “in the interests of science" to steal away children from their parents and introduce into their circulation a poison, the effects of which can scarcely be determined in a lifetime Perhaps if the parents had been rich and influential, they might have objected Justice Brewer, of the United State Supreme Court was at the congress on and said: I hope no longing medical eye will be cast upon me, so that 1 will be usable to leave this room with the same good health— Justice Brewer evidently knows so thing about the doctors. But then, he “poor and uneducated.” Going for Groton School ROTO CHOOL, the school that gets more’ gratuitous advertising than any other in America, and that is perpetually the target of writers who ssume to be champions of democracy, gets a fresh belting in the September number the Broa: Magazine from a writer whose information is not quite equal to his malice. He says, for one thing, that baseball and foot! are hot permitted at Groton. Both are dili- gently cultivated there, especially foot- Uall, in which Groton excels, chiefly be- cause of the intelligence with which it is taught and the zeal with which it is practiced. The Broodway's detractor says that the Groton boy goes to Harvard, but is not concerned in university athletics, “since the rugged training and concen- tration necess: to success found no }lace in the gentler sports of his school.’* Alas! Alas! Groton had two or three men on Harvard's university crew this year, and three or four on the Freshman As a rule, she sends down some football players, both to Har- There are usually sev- Harvard football been several of Whatever ably baseball, to the same da is not of crew excellent vard and Yale. eral of them on team and there have high renown on Yale te: faults she has, Groton is rei in athletics, except. in in that assiduously mend her record The Broadway's contributor se have overdone his job a little, | mind! the she tries sto t never Impartial M* says Mr. 1o be * President every day President thing, every other day From such disinterested sources information should be of value Bryan is unfit And he Roosevelt ys the same comicbooks.com