Life, 1912-03-07 · page 34 of 60
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This page contains readers' letters to *Life* magazine addressing contemporary political issues. **"Whatever Cures"** and **"Russian Jews"**: These letters debate U.S.-Russia relations. A writer argues the U.S. should retaliate against Russia's discriminatory policies toward Jewish emigrants by refusing them entry—turning Russia's exclusionary tactics back on them. This reflects early-20th-century tensions over immigration and the U.S. treaty with Russia, which many Americans viewed as unfairly applied against American Jews seeking to visit or return to Russia. **"A Lady's Pay"**: Criticizes British suffragist Christabel Pankhurst's American lecture tour, sarcastically suggesting she's a "hired agitator" because she accepted payment ($100) for speaking at Wellesley College about militant suffragism (tactics like property destruction). The letter questions whether accepting money undermines her cause's moral legitimacy—a dig at the professionalization of the suffrage movement. The **illustration** (bottom) appears unrelated editorial content, showing an interior domestic scene with the caption about a mouse in a clothes closet.
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We Are Constantly in Receipt of Important Letters Which Are Too Long for Our Limited Space. Whatever Cures ox Lave In renewing my subscription to Lire the other day I marveled at the progress aman nn I have taken it for inst my profession no longer worry me. 1 con- fess they did I steadily believe now this tolerance among doctors in the end will reform Lire, 1 should like you to have a “ Doctors’ Number,” and lay it over us—but somewhere in that nun make. many years but the diatribes: once. her would you be good enough to say— constructively or let us say sympathet- ically—what your plan is to deal with smallpox, cerebro-spinal meningitis, aml that prolific joke-maker, appendicitis? The medical profession has a good deal of sawdust, and under cover, but, nevertheless, it will, nusement, last for ages. But w musement is much, to comfort is more, and in the professional line dentists and doctors of medicine are the only that are real. Come on, Lure, tell us admirers what your brilliant staff does excelsior moss ones Sincerely Hanky M. Th members of Lire st when really scared, consult the practitioners of their choice, be it Old School, New School, No School, Homee- opath, Osteopath, Mental Science, the rest cure or even plain old Nature.” But some of us do shy at injected disease —Tur Eprror. when ill Hat, M.D. “ brilliant Russian Jews Dea Lary Why abrogate the treaty and destroy commercial advantages in Russia? Is it not a case of biting off the nose to spite the face? What is to be gained by the abrogation? Tt is certain that Americanized Rus- sian Jews will not be more welcome in our Russia without a treaty than they were with on The old tre has long been a thorn in Russia's side, as much ex- planation was required of: Russia in the case of each rejection of an American- ized Russian Jew. , In the event of abrogation, Russia will henceforth free, uncmbar- rassed hand in the rejection not only of expatriated Jews, but of all Jews alike. her words, the advan- lage of nois all Why have a abroxa Russia's. should we not turn the difficulty Brevity is Absolutely Essential to Publication to our own advantage, by retaliating and refusing to allow Russian Jews to land on our shores? Such refusal would soon bring Russia to terms, She could not afford to lose her dumping ground for her hordes of so-called undesirables: If, however, she should persist in her old course, so much the better for us. We should be relieved of an increase in our urban population, which is not alto- gether helpful to us. AMERICANUS. A Lady's Pay Deak Lien: Atherton’s faith, yours, wrong that Mrs. surely made in good allowed to discredit It seems statement, should be when both may establish veracity. Miss Cristabel Pankhurst was moned to Wellesley last spring 10 con- vert the recalcitrant college girls to the sacred mission of brick throwing, and the town hall thrown open free to the public by a group of enthusiasts who paid her $100 for an hour's small talk on militant tactics. They were able to do this through the bequest of a deceased suffragist, for which reason, the commit sum- THANK HEAVEN you've tce stated, they were able to secure her at an unusually low figure for the sake of the cause. Again this fall Mrs, Pankhurst was with us (those students proved obsti- nate!) and a so-cent admission charged to help meet the costs of the lecture. So, Lire, you are right, for Mrs. Pankhurst thereby proven “a hired agitator,” em- ployed by American suffragists. 1 doubt if Mrs. Atherton could search out six mectings in this country at which these Indies went unpaid And, since the Pankhursts act, not from mercenary motives, but fanatic zeal, and pour our good American dollars into the swollen treasury of the W. $ PLU, it is to understand that th Union would consider it a sound finan- cial investment, when Mrs. Pankhurst comes to the United States and Canada to lecture, “10 contribute from 4 fund,” as Mrs. Atherton * the ver euse she incurs. Strictly speaking, Lire, Mrs. Pank- hurst is not employed by the “ sundry aflucnt and ambitious women" you have “to go about making speeches. surely casy states, in mind hut she is invited, entertained and en- couraged by them, and through their in- fluence and co-operation receives gen- crous return for her made-in-England propaganda. You need not this connec- tion, for the American disciples of mili- tancy. They pay for the goods, C. O. D. “ Ants.” Dlush, in A Wettestry Wettestey Hints, Mass. January 12, 1912. come! Titere’s A Mouse IN THE CLOTHES closet” comicbooks.com