Life, 1909-05-20 · page 27 of 36
Life — May 20, 1909 — page 27: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and editorial content** rather than political cartooning. The main image shows what appears to be a formal gathering or ceremony in a grand interior space, but lacks identifying captions that would clarify its specific reference. The notable editorial content is "A Few Truths," a letter to the editor debating **animal vivisection** (live animal testing). The writer argues against vivisection for medical research, sarcastically questioning whether animal experiments justify themselves by listing infamous historical figures (Czolgosz, Guiteau, Benedict Arnold, Judas) whose deaths might have been "worth" animal lives. The writer also critiques the meningitis serum and Pasteur's rabies treatment as unproven remedies. The page is otherwise filled with advertisements for luggage, motor oil, and tires, employing period marketing rhetoric about reliability and "luck." The overall content reflects early 20th-century debates over scientific ethics and animal rights.
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Crouch & Fitzgerald 154 Fifth Avenue NN. W. Cor, 20th St. {7 Broadway 723 Sixth Avenue, N, Y. ‘Above Cortlandt Below Forty-secona Trunks, Bags and Cases Everybody's Column (Continued from page 706) A Few Truths Jo me Evitor or Lire: Sir:—In answer to one who signs himsclf F," in your issue of April 27, I would like to ak this endorser of cruelty, who made him ty appraiser of God Almighty’s creation? he same old cheap appeal to “ the “Wouldn't a man do so and so, to save his own child,” or, “Isn't the life of a single child worth that of thousands of animals. e? How many animal lives would it have taken, I y and ff wonder, to have compensated the world for the ora [ ms of the infants Czolgoz, Guiteau, Benedict Amold and Jud. Iscariot? I should think by Il see Hf itis time that they would get up something new P, to- and original. mery He also says: “The scientist docs the killing, Same ff st all mankind the benefit.” (Does be include human experiments, too, in the kill- sand ing?). The word vivisectors should be subs pular tuted in place of mankind, and then the state- types J ect would be correct, for they can take a poor keep J ten-dollar horse and convert him into a five- huedred dollar, when they produce that so much teasted of but harmful antitoxin for diphtheria. res tO. ff How much money is invested in scrum plants in LY, this country? Who reaps the benefit, mankind tr the vivisectors? It is to laugh. The latest alleged triumph of vivisection ({meninigits serum), about which he mentions as taving done such wonders, has recently been con- deared in a medical journal by physicians who City. An automobile cylinder oil must be of il filtered—otherwise heavy carbon de- red in posits will result. olice lt An automobile cylinder oil must have “body” —otherwise it will not lubricate. Havoline oils are the on/y oils made which possess lubricating “body” and at the same time are high/y filtered. In proof of this statement we invite a comparison between Havoline and — ay other brand of oil in existence. Write for Catalogue—it tells the whole story MANUFACTURED BY HAVOLINE OIL COMPANY Executive Offices: 77 Broad St., New York Retail Store: 1906 Broadway, New York Boston: ®@ Dearocrn S, 749 Boylaton St. ies 3 Pacife Coast Are oh ie KS W. P. Puller & C San Francisco, Cal, | If You Want To Gamble don’t gamble with automobile tires; you don’t get a long enough run for your money, and it’s risky. If you must gamble Go To Monte Carlo but buy tires of known value, with a record for safety and endurance, “Tire Luck” is simply a matter of getting tires with the best record for service; and giving them reasonable care. If scientific construction is “‘luck’’—if the toughest known materials are “‘luck’’and if the best record is ‘‘luck’’ then GOODRICH TIRES interesting 1908 record, illustrated.) | are lucky tires—and those who use them have a remarkable unanimity of lucky experiences. (Goodrich Tires have a habit of coming out ahead in every important contest of endurance. Send for their The B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, Ohio. Branches in All Large Cities. | “We Do Not Gamble With Our Reputation’’ tried it, and it is only a question of a very short time before it takes its place among the list of disregarded nostrums. The Pasteur treatment, or the method of breed- ing the virus of that very rare disease—rabies— in animals, for diluted application to the human bein other commercial product Vivisection, stripped of its pretense of unsel- fish effort for humanity, is simply torture com- mercialized, and is a moral crime. They claim to have discovered much, but they can’t even cure corns, bunions or rheumatism Cruelty is cruelty, no matter upon whom, where, by whom the act is committed, or for what purpose. At these medical laboratories a premium is offered for dogs and cats, which is a plain in- 707 centive to crime. Men and boys make a business of taking animals to these places to sell, and it is only a step from stealing a dog or cat to stealing something else, Such places are simply “ Fagin Schools M.D. H. Puutapetpita, May 1, 1909. ENGLISH TOURS By AUTOMOBILE PRIVATE CARS. GO WHERE YOU PLEASE. Thostrated booklet free by post. MOTOR TOURING COMPANY, 43 Pembroke Place, - Liverpool, England comicbooks.com