Life — April 1, 1909 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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s true, do; oan; Truth. da rail mediately were fe vith such began (0 after all he young a show smiled uth, whe remarked legroom's From a Friendly Critic To tie Eottor or Lire: Thave read Lire pretty regularly for the past ten years and agree with the opinion I 1 heard expressed that it is beyond comparison the best humorous weekly in America and one of the best in the world. I will go farther and say that for making people think, I believe it bas no cqual among American periodicals of any class. But the wisest head has a crack some- where, even such a composite intelligence as it may be assumed “directs Lire’s policies. It is not because I have the faintest hope of mending your crack, but with the idea of satisfying my own curiosity that I propound the following question - Why are you so particulariy savage against the doctors? Granting that there is a great deal of humbug among those who practice the profession, that there 1s a great deal of pretense unsupported by actual knowledge, still these are charges which can be made with equal force against any profession. Every mind without Live's particular crack acknowledges that as a dass physicians are the most devoted, unselfish and intelligent workers for the good of human- ity. If it is worth while to weigh motives, I do not hesitate to state as my own opinion that those influencing a physician to practice his pro- fession will probably average higher those which actuate a lawyer, a teacher, or a preacher. Your last number in one of your hysterical attacks on vivisection quoted a physician as saying “A hu- man life is nothing compared with a new fact in science,"” and sneeringly asked if he proposed giving his own life. Hundreds of physicians have done just that for the same end, and thou- sands more stand ready to do it. There may be cold and cruel doctors; but sentimentality is a worse fault than cruelty, and mighty few doctors suffer from it. On the other hand, there is no other profession in which there is so much real sacrifice and unostentatious kindness. To pic- ture every doctor as an inhuman monster who delights in cutting up live animals for the mere sake of enjoying pain would be exceedingly funny if it were not so barbarously unjust. Will Lire confirm or deny a theory I have formed—that Lire is in reality a Christian Sci- ence journal, but for once in its career is afraid to say what it believes? I am sorry if this is $0, not so much because I dislike to see Lire converted to any particular dogma—though that is not a desirable consummation—but because if it is a convert, I should hate to believe it a convert without the courage of its convictions —willing to fire at the enemy from ambush, but hot to hoist the standard of its friends. After all I don't like that theory. I prefer my original proposition of the inevitable crack, What's the Truth About Sixes vs. Fours ? Many an automobile owner and prospective buyer asks this question; and here is the best answer we can give: Theoretically the six so far outshines the four that the four hardly casts a shadow. “Four” makers do not advertise the superiority of the four—they wait until their eee reach you personally, and then they say that the six is great in theory, — That “but—" is meant to get you to buy a four. Its true import is, that most of the makers who have experimented with sixes (probably the maker whose sales- man sees you, is one of them) have mot reached success. But (and here's a “‘but” that is positive, not negative) know this: +The WINTON SIX reached success nearly two years ago. So great has been its success that the Winton Company has not produced a four-cylinder car since June, 1907. We could not in good conscience try to sell you a four in competition with the Winton Six. We are in business to sell cars. Do you suppose for a minute that if our sixes were not better than fours (and by the way, the old Winton Model M of 1907 is today as good a four as you are likely to find anywhere), we would have put our factory, our investment, our faith and our future into sixes exclusively ? Not likely. No, just give us credit for ordinary business judgment; and, as a Precaution against being influenced to buy a four on misinformation or misleading suggestion, get the facts about the Winton Six. Two sizes—$3000 and $4500. Our literature is fully explanatory. “Twelve Rules to Help Buyers” and “The Difference Between Price and Value” are especially helpful. Write today. THE WINTON MOTOR CARRIAGE CO. Member Association Licensed Auto, Mfrs. 92 BEREA ROAD, CLEVELAND, OHIO The Glove With the Ventilated Back A circulation of air enters through rows of perforations, too tiny to admit. dust, and prevents perspiration. 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I can see the faults of the medical profession as well as their virtues, and my ad- vice to you—which you will not take—is to keep hitting at those faults—the doctors need a little shaking up—but don’t hit so hard that you lose your own balance and perform the undignified— worse, ineffectual—antics which of late have caused your friends to smile sadly and your ene- mies to grin admiringly. Sincerely yours, Henry Crane Hassrouck. Tror, N. Y., February 24, 1909. (Continued on page 426)