Life, 1911-05-25 · page 36 of 42
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This page is primarily **advertising and editorial content** rather than political satire. The main elements include: **Advertisements:** - Elco Motor Boats (top): Promotes electric launches for safety and ease - Gray & Davis Lighting Dynamo (bottom, large): Car electrical equipment - Sexology book: A medical/educational text on marital relations - Cape Cod tourism promotion - Puritan Publishing book advertisements **Editorial Content:** The "Inheritance" article argues that extreme wealth concentration is socially harmful—that the wealthy's fortunes should not automatically pass to children who may lack merit. The author criticizes the "artificial law" of inheritance, noting that 95% of society sacrificed comfort so 5% could accumulate fortunes for potentially undeserving heirs. **Historical Context:** This appears to be from the Progressive Era (roughly 1900s-1920s), when debates about wealth inequality, inheritance taxes, and social reform were prominent. The article reflects Progressive-era skepticism toward unchecked inheritance and aristocratic privilege. The page contains **no political cartoons**, just standard period advertising and opinion journalism.
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SING power, boat offers Ladies, and’ even children, can © safety ~ 50) to 100 miles, on one” HE-IDEAINLAUNCH” for use on mountain lakes and rivers. Their many advantages: safety, simplicity of control, absence of noise, heat and vibration, leave nothing to be desired—the refinement of boating. BOATS IN STOCK READY FOR PROMPT DELIVERY, 18 ft., 21 ft. 26 ft. and 30 ft. Write for New Catalogue Inheritance At the other extreme of society we find a small class, variously estimated at from three to five per cent., which pos- sesses at least ten to fifteen times as much wealth and resources as it can utilize in ony profitable way in the train ing and nutrition of its children. As Bacon shrewdly remarked, three hundred years ago, “Money is like muck—not good unless it be spread,” and. some form of biologie equalization of resources and environment is urgently called for. The wealth of the very rich is as great a curse to their children as the poverty of the desperately poor is to theirs. One of the greatest barriers to such a nevmal and natural equalization of favors is the principle of artificial law—a purely fictitious or conventional right, not a natural onc, as we now regard it—by which the community permits 10 de- scend, or, more accurately, engages to transmit h to the children of dis- tinguished and successful men all the ac- cumulations of material property that may have been acquired during the parents’ lifetime. The only justification for this artificial right was the belief that great men were'certain to produce great sons, and that it was, therefore, to the interest and profit of the community to devote the large fortunes that they had accumulated to the nurture and care of these, its potential leaders. Ninety-five per cent. of the community, in fact. starved itself and went naked in order that five per cent. might have enough, and ten times more than enough, to de- velop for the benefit of the community the great talents that it was supposed to possess. crammed hundreds of goslings in the Address: EyPogy 175 Avenue A, Bayonne, N. J. 27 mlaates trom Liberty and 23rd Street Fersles, C Actomopile route Omiles, West <2ad Street Ferry NJ, to West tb Ste Boulevard. A Happy Marriage Depends largely ona know!- of the whole truth Stbut seit and ocx and thelr relation to life and health. ‘This knowledge does not come intelligently of itself, nor correctly from ordinary every-day sources, SEXOLOGY (Utustrated) by William H. Walling, A.M. M.Duy isopars in a clear, wholesome way in one volume: Knowledge a Young Man Should Have. wwiedge a Young Husband Should Have, Knowletge a Patter shoutt Haves Knowledge a Father Should Impart to His Son, Medical Knowledge a Husband Should Have. Knowledge a Young Woman Have. Knowledge a Young Wife sh ave. Knowledge a Mother Shon ve Knowledge a Mother Shon part to Her Daughter. Medical Knowledge a Wife Should Have. All In one volume. Itustrated. $2, postpaid. Write for “Other People’s Opisioas"” acd Table of Contents. Puritan Pub. Co., 776 Perry Bldg., Phila., Pa. “Quaint Cape Cod” Send for this I this Book» — —— One Cape Cod’s the place where you would ¢ yourself this summer. We've a beautifully illustrated book that about the summer pleasures that await you oa Cod—the yachting, the bathing, the fishiog golfing, and the social life. Before you decide where to go this senm 1 send for “Quaint Cane C ADVERTISING BUREAU Roo 535 . South Station Boston, hope that one of them 1 swan, That belief practically ios now been shown to be a delusion, he artifici! right founded upon it, tucrefore, falls with it. It is advantage and favoritisa enough on the part of Nature that children of a great man siould have bis companionship and advice, his cate and example, and should 1 his looks and such share of his abilities as may fall to their lot. These things and equipment enough for ht turn outa © endowmert any healthy, 1 of life. All the rest of his material accumulations, which the assistance of the community enabled him to secure and which the power of the community is required to honest and sensible m transfer to his children, should be lowed to go back to the common furl so that each generation can be given a fresh, clean start, with a fair field aad no favors. Such an act of simple jus tice would benefit the children of the and the members of the aristocracy a much as it would the children o} and the offspring of the aver Dr, Woods Hutchinson Evening Post A Fitting Gift Literary Mistress: Er to make you a present. | your favorite poet?—Harper's Bazar. et, I watt -which is For ages we have reared and. GRAY& DAVIS LIGHTING DYNAMO nts 16 A complete electric plant, driven by your motor. Lights your lamps, charges your batteries, lis ¢. p. inspection lamp and operates power horn. GRAY & DAVIS Lighting Dynamo System is complete in every detail. Not an experiment, not a makeshift, You get the Dynamo, special armored wiring, junction box, battery, electric cut-out and switch, Does what no otherdynamo can do. Constant speed, will light your lamps WITHOUT battery connection. Shunt Wound ‘when lighting lamps, Compound Wound when charging batteries, Get GRAY & DAVIS Dynamo for your car. Saves weight, saves cost for gas tanks. Write to-day for Catalog E. Z NOTE COM CONSTRUC | OF DYNAMO. COMPARATIVES GRAY & DAVIS, ‘scccisiaeys Amesbury, Mass. BOSTON: 749 Boylston St. NEW YORK: B’way & SSth St. CONVENT an HAY. RAG, FIN IN YOUR Provid travelit bodies 0 paralysis, paralyzin be is nea germ of | Labora that the of a hes of anima in some What, th the injec from ac And yet tion that the “sp paralysis ical Ti