Life, 1911-05-25 · page 37 of 42
Life — May 25, 1911 — page 37: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
The main advertisement is AT&T's defense of monopoly telephone service. The diagram shows six men's faces connected to a central figure—illustrating how "half service or double expense" results from competing telephone systems in one town. AT&T argues that a single unified system (theirs) serves the public better than fragmented competition, positioning monopoly as efficient and necessary for "universal service." This reflects early 20th-century corporate arguments for consolidation, before antitrust concerns dominated such debates. The company frames divided service as wasteful duplication harming consumers. The page also includes a "Science" critique mocking Professor Flexner's experimental spinal injections on children's bodies, calling his paralysis-inducing tests a misguided search for disease cures—satirizing pseudoscientific medical claims. Two brief jokes about lawyers and bill-collection round out the page, typical of Life's satirical humor.
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