Life, 1910-12-08 · page 15 of 44
Life — December 8, 1910 — page 15: what you’re looking at
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The top cartoon satirizes the Episcopal Church's divorce policies. An Episcopal Bishop confronts a man about remarrying after divorce, insisting the church forbids the "innocent party" from remarrying. The man's dismissive response ("Well, what of it?") mocks the Bishop's moral authority—suggesting the church's rules are out of touch with modern attitudes and unenforceable against those who simply ignore them. Below, "Campaign Scraps Have a Value" argues that despite being "disagreeable and misleading," negative campaign claims serve a purpose: they spread awareness of labor issues. The piece cites criticism of employer "Dix" for working men thirteen-hour days, acknowledging this attack was unfair but factually accurate. It advocates reform toward eight-hour shifts, suggesting even dirty campaign tactics can produce beneficial social change. The bottom cartoon appears to reference Adam and Eve as humanity's "first investigating committee"—likely commenting on original sin or human nature's investigative origins.
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‘LIFE: wl MATCHES ON EARTH, MADE NOT IN HEAVEN. TM, MiG ww 7; yj Wy =) oo Sm — = LEE NS Episcopal Bishop: 1 SUPPOSE YOU KNOW, SIR, THAT 1 HAVE FORBIDDEN THE INNOCENT PARTY OF A DIVORCE TO REMARRY? “WELL, WHAT OF 1T?” tender our heartfelt thanks. This new league has stimulated our business wonderfully. It we badn’t been old and expe- rienced it might have fooled us. As the case stands at present we are doubling our office force and have put another Sceing-the-Tenderloin automobile in commission. Drop in and sce us at any hour of the day and night. Terms on application. Huseanps’ Corresroxpence Bureav. Campaign Scraps Have a Value I* these times, when the profits of great businesses have come so much to lie in the use of scraps that once were wasted, it becomes us as a thrifty people to sec that none of the left-over scraps of our political campaigns are left to go to waste. It will be conceded that the late campaign abounded in scraps. They were disagrecable and very misleading. Never- theless in their humble way they made for the spread of knowledge. Take the row about Dix as an employer who worked his hands thirteen hours a day. It was not a fair charge, yet it was truce. The machineries in paper-mills every- where run day and night, six days a week. Until lately they all ran with two shifts of men working thirteen hours one week and eleven the next. Now some of the best mills have three shifts of men working cight hours, and have been able to accomplish the change without reduction of wages. That Mr. Dix’s mill has not yet come to that method is not a re- flection on him, for he has merely followed the general custom of his trade, But it is a fact that hours of labor for the night and day men in paper mills are too long, and that they should all change to the three-shift system. One of the by-products of the late quarrelsome campaign may be to help along that change. HE first investigating committee was held in the Garden of Eden. STARTING THE RACE