Life, 1912-10-24 · page 11 of 48
Life — October 24, 1912 — page 11: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three distinct editorial cartoons and commentary on early 20th-century American social issues. **Top cartoon**: Shows a baseball player mid-leap, celebrating "Our Visiting Pitcher Was Very Wild." The accompanying text discusses whether Russian Jewish immigrants should be compelled to pledge allegiance to the U.S. flag—a contentious assimilation debate of the era. **Middle cartoon**: Titled "The Husbandcutte," depicts a domestic scene where a wife confronts her husband about attending a political meeting while wearing what she calls a "horrid chorus boy" costume, satirizing men's political engagement and fashion choices. **"Adjustment Needed"**: Discusses automobiles' growing dangers, citing a recent bridge accident killing nine young men. It predicts society must adapt to this new technology's risks. These pieces reflect Progressive-era anxieties: immigration, political participation, and technological change.
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sa aa Os gion, is very busy running for Gover- nor; Mr. Knox, our titular Secretary of State, has, at this writing, not yet returned from his long journey to bury the Mikado; Mr. Huntington Wilson, Acting Secretary, is con- ducting a war in Nicaraugua with an army of ship-stewards and marines, and keeping a binocular on Mexico. His hands are full; noth- ing more should be expected of him, President Taft is golfing, motoring and talking persuasively to the voters, and the eyes of the country are glued upon Matty and Wood. Go it, then, Montenegro! So far as this country is concerned, now is your chance. HOEVER has not been con- cerned about the tremendous competition between the Red Sox and the Giants for the baseball champion- ship is invited to consider himself a little outside of our American civili tion. Baseball is very much of an institution, A distinguished Jewish scholar from London speaks with en- thusiasm of its value in’ Americaniz- “LIFE: ing Russian Jews. Think what great merits it has as an active sport, how good it is for the boys, how little gam- hling goes with it, how little risk of severe physical injury and yet how supremely satisfying it is to the Amer- ican spirit! We are more likely to underrate than overestimate its importance. Go Easy With the Flag HAT is the matter with the School Board of Cedar Grove. that it should condescend to pick a fight with a Canadian pupil of the Cedar Grove High School because he will not make a daily promise of allegiance to the United States flag? Of course, he won't! Why should hh And why should the Cedar Grove School Board wish to compel him to? If the boy's father is a resident of Cedar Grove, he has to pay his share of the school tax, and the son should ave schooling under reasonable con- ditions. The condition the School Board exacts is not reasonable, but tyrannons and entirely inexpedient. ar Grove ought to open a school its School Board, where it can for learn what's what, and why. Gover- nor Wilson is probably competent to xive the necessary instruction when The Husbandette: MADAM, YOU SAID YOU ATTENDED A POLITICAL MEETING LAST NIGHT, MOW DO YOU AccouNT YOR THIS PHOTOGRAPIE OF A MORRID CHORUS NOY WHICH 1 FIND IN YOUR CLOTHE DUR VISITING PITCHER Was. Very witb” he has leisure, though it is not his job. Flag exercises in the schools are in- tended to teach children to love the flag. Stuffing it down their throats is not the way to accomplish that end Adjustment Needed T would be interesting to look ahead, ay twenty y and see what is going to happen to the automobile. No doubt there will be very many more of them than now—one can't imagine such a decline in their popularity as befell the bicyele—but what will be these habits and deportment? To ride forty miles and upwards in a motor car on any common road is simply to entrust one’s self to the care of Providence. If anything happens, it will happen hard, and there may be survivors and there may not. A Phila- delphia motor car, going at high speed, that ran through a bridge railing and down seventy-five feet into a coal yard on October 7, made a complete bag of the nine joyous young men who were riding in it. They were all killed. 1} similar occurrences, see any da paper, Monday morning papers pre- ferred. It is a beautiful, a wonderful ma- chine, but what is going to be its effect on the human physique and the human character? In twenty may begin to see. Mankind has got to adjust itself to it, and that will take time years or so we comicbooks.com