Life, 1913-02-13 · page 36 of 44
Life — February 13, 1913 — page 36: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising and editorial content** rather than political satire. The main elements are: **Left Side: California Travel Advertisement** A stylized male figure promotes Union Pacific's "Los Angeles Limited" train, urging readers to escape winter weather for California's perpetual sunshine and outdoor sports. This is straightforward commercial advertising. **Center: Readers' Letters Section** Two editorial letters debate child labor statistics in Alabama. A reader challenges Life's claim that 45% of children under 16 work in Alabama's mines and factories, arguing the figure is exaggerated. Life's editors cite U.S. Census and National Child Labor Committee data defending their reporting—a factual dispute about Progressive Era social conditions. **Right Side: Product Advertisements** Nestlé's chocolate baking product and Kelly-Springfield automobile tires. **Bottom: Humor Anecdote** A joke about attorney Elihu Root cross-examining a woman about her age, suggesting hesitation reveals age—light comedic filler typical of period magazines. The page reflects early 1900s concerns about child labor and Progressive Era reform debates, but contains no editorial cartoons or sustained satirical commentary.
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Take your racquet, your golf bag, fishing tods and motor togs. It’s summer now -In CALIFORNIA Sunshine—good, warm, bracing sunshine— right now, in winter. Roses and orange blos- soms such as you have never seen. Outdoor sports such as you enjoy in June. Los Angeles Limited is the fast, luxurious train for Southern Cali- fornia. Leaves Chicago daily 10:16 p. m. Less than three days to Los Angeles, via River- side and San Bernardino with through sleepers to Pasadena, via Union Pacific— Salt Lake Route Double tracks; automatic electric block safety signals; electric lighted compartment sleepers; library, observation and dining cars. Write today for beautifully illustrated book- | Ict about California. Address | Gerrit Fort, Passenger Traffic Manager | Union Pacific Room 26, Omaha, Neb. Every Moment Counted Elin Root was cross-examining a We Are Constantly in Ree portant Letters Which Are for Our Limited Space, Brevity is Ab- solutely Essential to Publication. Child Labor in Alabama Lire: Dean Sixs.—I note in a recent issue of Lire you make the statement that 45 per cent. of the children under six- teen years old in Alabama are engaged in daily toil for a living. Nobody will be more astonished at this statement than Alabamians. If it is true you should convince us of that fact; if it is not true you should correct your state- ment. The writer is well acquainted with south Alabama, and knows that practi- cally no children are at work in the southern part of the State, and doesn’t believe any large proportion are em- ployed in the northern part. Alabama's two largest industries are farming and mining, neither of which can use child labor extensively, Cotton factories, in which most child used, are comparatively few in this State. Kindly let us know where you got your figures. We believe you are wrong about one hundred and twenty thousand children being engaged in daily toil in this State, and you are certainly wrong in saying that. this is 45 per cent. of the total number under sixteen years of age. Yours, IoMW. labor is Troy, ALADaMa, January 1, 1913. The sources of Lire’s information were the United States Census and the National Child Labor Committe Eprrors oF Lire. A Restful Idea Eptrors or Lire: Gextiemen.—Being a reader of Lire and a “booster” of the N. Y., N. H. & H.R. R. I offer the following observa- tion as an original idea—it even ¢s- caped the Progressive platform. Concerning cemeteries, we have in Arlington a national cemetery fer the burial of the unknown soldiers; we have cemeteries in all big cities for paupers blend ‘© MATTER chocolate in cooking, success depends on the blend quality as well as on the flavor of the chocolate. insure unfailing eee 1 ow you use Many good cooks deliciousness bv us: Baking and Cooking Its unusual smeothness. due to the H lung grinding it receives, makes it perfectly in the cooking. The eis best described as he name which has made Chocolate the most popular Aavor with Americans. 64 IRVING PLACE. NEW YORK Kelly-Springfield young woman in court one day. ‘ How old are you?" he asked. The young * woman hesitated. “ Don't hesitate,” said Mr. Root. “The longer you hesitate the older you are.” —Ladies’ Home Journal. Automobile Tires Specifying Kelly-Springfield when you buy tires, is_mercly, a demand for the highest quality of tire with a greater-than-the- average mileage. It's borne out by figures and facts. KELLY-SPRINGFIELD TIRE COMPANY, _20 Vesey Street, New York leago, Philadephia, Boston. St, Louls, Detrolt, Ctncianat ,San Francise, veland. Baltimore, Seattle. Atlanta, Akron, O., Buffalo. Rering Tire & Rubber Co., Houstoo, Texas “You see, had the lamb been obedient and stayed in the fold it would not have been eaten by the wolf, would it?” Boy: No, ma'am; it would have been eaten by us.—Sketch. comicbooks.com