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This page is primarily **advertising** for *Human Life* magazine's June issue, which will feature "The Story of Theodore Roosevelt" by Alfred Henry Lewis. The large illustration depicts **Roosevelt as a preacher or orator** addressing a crowd of attentive listeners, with dramatic rays of light behind him—a visual metaphor presenting him as an inspiring, almost messianic figure. The accompanying text uses hyperbolic praise, calling Roosevelt's life a lesson to everyone and emphasizing his honesty and success. The satirical point appears implicit: *Life* magazine is gently mocking the contemporary Roosevelt mythology and public adulation by presenting him in such grandiose, almost religious terms. The page also contains a reader's letter criticizing negative emphasis in journalism, which may relate to Roosevelt coverage debates of the era.

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For BILIOUSNESS Try NATURAL APERIENT WATER. Con Avoid Substitutes From Our Readers (Continued from page 1089) Some Suggestions Dear Lire: Will you permit a loyal and constant reader to ask why it is that you so often emphasize the negative and de- structive side rather than the positive and constructive side of certain ques- tions? Granted that vaccination and the Pasteur treatment are not ideal and are only permissible as long as they seem to be the best thing under the e Or y re) | circumstances, why not devote your 2 eloquence and energy to showing a better way of avoiding the evils they <4 ly ( were designed to combat? Could the laws regarding the muz- aling of dogs be enforced in this coun- try as they have been in Great Britain, and rabies thus stamped out, Pasteur By Alfred H * treatment would die speedily. Could vy re enry Lewis the need of immediate reporting and “Picks him up in his cradle * * * his graduation from Harvard and * * * splash! * °°) isolation of smallpox cases, and the into politics as a bold swimmer takes a header from some dock-head, the Roosevelt whom | __ need of good sanitation also, be fully we know shall begin. Likewise the excitement. | impressed upon the world, this disease “Politics is to Mr. Roosevelt what water is to a fish or air to birds. * * * He has not together with many others would dis- only put other men in office—as Mr. Taft—but has himself been in succession Assemblyman appear and vaccination be admittedly ***and President. He has had his peep into every angle of government, and both Mr. Roosevelt and the world have come the better off for the peeping. * * * (Continued on page 1091) “There be folk whose wishes doubtless are fathers to their never beea infallible. He bas proposed the wrong thing thoughts, who believe that Mr. Roosevelt will succeed Mr. supported the wrong thing. He haa helped the wrong man, Taft as President of these United States. For myself Ido hated the wrong man. But he was always honest; and while not share their views. * ever, that is all another s his b ok sometimes the left-hand turn, his heart never | and must be left for :to 1012. " Meanwile, I shall tak goes Knowing bim to be honest the people would never (Tits pai 197%; PR y : eve Huma Life Fe oy Be b | youth, db e. the ire bbling on two | i] ] y oer think, mark the proper line between us, To do more would fete todo the mesew thing than do nothing scam, &s'* He be ae iovasion of his rights; to do less would be a surreader of has followed off the wrong trail as often as any man. Hehas ™ Alfred Henry Lewis, | (7 The eae June Issue of ‘THE MAGAZINE ABOUT PEOPLE “{Thave known him personally for wellnigh twenty years.® ¢ ¢ ie the boy, the [shall write of Mr. Roosovelt—write what I know and how I Set By He Dox. the know it, what I think and why I think it, That should, 1 i } t Po UP he TO 10c. a copy at news stands Elegantly Printed and Finely Illustrated ‘Throughout all history, all Uterature, all dram» the things whieh heve endured, which have made gener- ation after generation laugh’ or cry, have all ceatered a.cund the element of human characteristics —tumaa life ‘The greatest autoblography——Pepys'—bas Ils endurance, its grinoing charm because of the fatimate revela- $ , - 7 ° tion of s man’s character. Great men and women of all time are Just the same sort as we are: bave the $F 4 : fame soves, ambitions and bates, tbe same faulte—varying only in degree. Nothing la so unchanging, z ; any nd yet eo complex, vo fascinating, as buman life. Nothing #0 interesting as to see bow the same + wil Kind of people act and have acted under circumstances we have Dever beeo afforded. here are un- ae rv : or Goubtedly Hundreds of readers of Human Life who, If thelr environment could have beea the same, ; J re a in ould have achleved potable succemes in history." There are “behind-the-scenes" ressons for these” Krcat euccemes. Human Life takes you by the hand and gives you the lside ew of the great ram Eharcters that are making bistry today. Tt gives You an absolute new and uuicue bolat of SS* ¢f On view—the view-polnt of the man who judges not only by effect, but who bas at his command OF Mol the causes and reasons behind present-day politics. drams, art, mmusic, Uterature and setence. a ‘That is why Human Life ts for you. Human Life is & magazine for the strona of both ? sexes, those having gray matter and rich. red blood—tor YOU. Through it you will meet *s face to face the people the world I* taiking about—koow them intimately. Sead a f Sea dollar bili to us with this coupon. ft today, and you'll be sure to get Human Lite for] year beginning with this geat Jue issue, We'll take the risk, Write your name and address plainly. SUUMAN LIFE PUBLISHING CO., be tise: " gm comicbooks.com