Life, 1911-08-10 · page 26 of 40
Life — August 10, 1911 — page 26: what you’re looking at
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This page contains editorial commentary on a dispute between New York's Mayor and Harvard President Lowell over whether the city's Board of Education should be paid or unpaid. **The Main Article ("Our Mayor and President Lowell"):** The author criticizes the Mayor for using *ad hominem* arguments—attacking Lowell personally rather than engaging his substantive points. The Mayor accused Lowell of trying to trick him by publishing their correspondence; the author finds this absurd, noting Lowell had every right to publish his own letter. **The Two Cartoons:** The top illustration titled "Captured Ammunition" depicts soldiers joking about eggs, apparently from military maneuvers. The bottom cartoon, "Uncertain," shows a child telling a stranger she's currently "the pet of the Matrimonial Fidelity and Casualty Trustt Company"—satirizing how custody disputes treat children as property, while the final aphorism advocates for child labor reform. The page illustrates *Life*'s role as a satirical publication addressing urban politics and social issues.
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Colonel The Private (extemporizing) OULD SHE-pIVIL How pip you wen. ANN’ Our Mayor and President Lowell UR Mayor in every discussion turns all too readily to the argumentem ad hominem. Speaking of his ge of letters with President Lowell d over the question of a paid id Board of Education in New York, he says: SURE THY inter- President Lowell ntroversy with mea ind of a ard of Education we should have in this Uhave no objection to that, but it seems ge that when he writes to me and when I write to him he straightway publishes his Supposed different spirit t have the spirit of playing the game fair, Dr. Lowell is a high author: school-boards, and in two letters written at the request of New Y payers who are concerned for the schools, the second a reply to the Mayor's re- come RY CAPTURED AMMUNITION (At the Maneuvers) THOSE EGC MULDOON ? COLONEL—YER HONOR. THREW THIM AT ate, sponse to the first, he argued strongly for the unpaid board. That his arguments in the matter should bother the Mayor is natural enough, but it is absurd for ynor to suggest that Dr. Lowell s tried to trick him. The Mayor him- self was the proper person to publish his letter to Dr. Lowell. The correspondence was public from the start. But since the Mayor saw fit not to print his own let- ter, it was not for Dr. Lowell to do so. The gist of the School Board discus- sion seems to be this: Almost all the experts hold that an unpaid small board is better. The Mayor holds, apparently, that New York is so big as to be an ev- ception to the general rule, and must have a paid board if it is to have a I one. Expert opinion, well repre- sented by President Lowell and Pres dent Butler of Columbia, dissents from kis view and tells him he can get a competent, small, unpaid board if he Of STHRAYED UNINTINTIONAL INTO AN OU WOMAN'S GARDEN chooses. It is not to be expected that the Mayor will abandon his opinion, but he ought not to make absurd suggestions of unfair conduct abo en of the standing of President Lowell. creeds were knowledge, would disappear. ignorance Uncertain LL, well, well,” said the kindly stranger, patting little Mollie on the head. “TI suppose you are your papa’s little darling? T don't know yet, thir,” lisped Mollie. “The court hathn't dethided yet. Jutht now I'm the pet of the Matrimonial Fi- delity and Casualty Trutht Company, thir.” CHILD in school is worth a hun- dred in a sweatshop. comicbooks.com