Life, 1912-05-16 · page 35 of 52
Life — May 16, 1912 — page 35: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising**, with one editorial essay. The main content is ads for Maine vacations, Gotham shirts, and prominently, a **Colt revolver's "Positive Lock"** safety feature—a mechanical bar preventing accidental discharge. The Colt ad emphasizes the gun is "ideally safe" for "Home Protection," requiring "No Thought." The sole editorial piece, "The Laggard Profession," **critiques lawyers and the legal profession**. It argues that while doctors, engineers, and clergy advance their fields toward progress and social benefit, lawyers resist reform. The essay claims lawyers obstruct court modernization, cling to "antiquated forms and verbiage," and prioritize technical delays over justice. The author (attributed to "Boston Common") concludes lawyers are becoming viewed not as "social servants" but as "drags" on society, because they refuse to address modern social problems reshaping other institutions. The critique reflects early 20th-century Progressive Era concerns about legal obstruction of social reform.
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SUMMER VACATIONS OUT OF THE ORDINARY Before you make your sum- mer plans send for free book- lets about some wonderful vacations offered by MAINE Woods, Lakes and Seashore Go deep into the woods. Live at one of the delightful hunting camps. Fish and explore little- known lakes and streams. Moose- head Lake, the great “inland sea.” Glorious canoe trips. Seashore ho- tels famous for their social life, bathing, yachting. Small hotels and boarding places, each with its special attraction. You can find just the vacation you have always wished for at the price you can afford. Booklets give full list of hotels and boarding houses with rates. Address THE NEW ENGLAND LINES Room 774 So. Station, Boston, Mass. The Laggard Profession Now that many learned lawyers, in Bar Associations assembled, are de- nouncing with vehemence the proposal to recall our judges from legalism to justice, the country is again reminded of one striking characteristic of the legal profession. Other professions are moving ahead. Doctors are striving to prevent dis- ease; engineers to increase efficiency ; clergymen to spiritualize society. The Profession of the law is the one great profession which is static on a The Shirt ofa Gentleman Gomfort. Quality Style and Color- Fast Fabrics in GOTHAM IRTS to retail at $1.00 to 37.50—also Summer Under- wear, Pajamas and Soft Collars. The Gotham Book de luxe tells you allabout them. Your per- sonal copy awaits a postal request. Send for it today. GOTHAM MFG. Co. aden SW Absolutely prevents acciden- tal discharge because a bar of solid steel stands between the face of hammer and frame so that the firing pin cannot touch the cartridge until the trigger is purposely pulled to fire a rw It Works Automatically —Requires No Thought! This makes a COLT the ideally safe, confidence-inspiring revolver for Home Protection. CANNOT BE PREMATURELY DISCHARGED by being dropped, by the hammer slipping when partly cocked, or by being struck a blow. Ask your dealer to show you a Colt with the Positive Lock Catalog 6 describing all COLT models mailed free on request. COLT’S PATENT FIRE ARMS MFG. CO. HARTFORD, CONN. I oT NATTA TNT Te basis of dogged resistance to progressive social service. It occasionally records resolutions expressing a desire to sim- plify legal procedure with a view to pro- moting justice; but it stubbornly ob- structs the carrying of those resolutions into effect. To-day lawyers more than any other group stand in the way of court reform. They are the ones who cling to anti- quated forms and verbiage, who traffic in technicalities, who are chiefly re- sponsible for appeals and delays, There are honorable exceptions, but as a group lawyers are in danger of coming to be regarded, not as social servants, doing a useful work for society, but as drags. They are bringing this estimate upon themselves by their refusal to see the need of a new fronting toward the so- cial problems which are recasting the spirit and outlook of other men. —Boston Common. ORT PEST TOR Ana