Life, 1913-10-09 · page 40 of 44
Life — October 9, 1913 — page 40: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily an **advertisement for "The World's Work" magazine**, not a political cartoon. It promotes upcoming articles on progressive-era reform topics. The key figures referenced are: - **George W. Alger**: A New York lawyer writing on judicial reform ("Swift and Cheap Justice") - **William McAdoo**: Treasury Secretary (humorously referenced in an anecdote about a forgotten train) - **Yuan Shih Kai**: China's president, described as "Strong Man of China," presented as an exotic figure for American readers - **H.E. Miles**: Industrial education advocate The **social context** reflects early 1900s Progressive reform concerns: court efficiency, vocational education for 2 million out-of-school children, currency control debates, and missionary/Christian business activities. The satire is gentle—mocking McAdoo's absent-mindedness and presenting Yuan Shih Kai as a romantic Eastern figure. The overall message urges American readers to engage with serious national problems through informed journalism.
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The Country Life Press Garden City, N.Y. S Where the World's Work is made +3 TREWORLDSWoRK is covering subjects which every sensible person knows should have energetic and immediate attention to make this country a better place to live in. George W. Alger a brilliant We need Swift and Cheap Justice. member of the New York Bar has written a series of articles telling what has been done and what must be done to get it. The first article is ‘‘Organizing the Courts for Business.” Everyone Should Read This Great Series Swift and Cheap Justice ‘ 99 once despatched a special ‘Tunnel McAdoo train Sora traveling beg he had forgotten. In the series “Who Govern the United States” Burton J. Hendrick tells the story and presents a fascinating pen-portrait of the Secretary of the Treas- ury, the man who will largely influence the great question, “Shall the Control of the Currency be Public or Private?” of Christianity as well as of The Militant Age Suffrage. The story of the stu- pendous missionary activity of to-day is told in “The Busi- ness of Christianizing the World”. A century ago this work was called “useless, dangerous, fantastic”. Now the great business men of the world are devoting much of their time to the direction of an army of millions of mission- aries and the spending of tens of millions of dollars an- nually. Are You Behind? In the attention you have paid * to vocational-education. There are 2,000,000 children between the ages of 14 and 16 years out of school. H. E. Miles, Chairman of the Committee on Industrial Education of the National Association of Manufacturers, in “What I Am Trying To Do”, a series to be continued and to which many men of accomplishment contribute, tells how to give these children the education that makes them valuable in the work-a-day world without depriving them of their wages. “Why Should I Wish To Be Napoleon When I Can Be George Washington ?” says Yuan Shih Kai, the Strong Man of China and Presi- dent of the Republic. A man who has seen this strangely fascinating man, studied him at close range — frequently spoken with him—has written an amazing story about him. Yuan Shih Kai might have stepped out of an Eastern fairy book. ¢ And there will be the following articles and depart- ments—Man and His Machines, March of the Cities, Forward to the Land, Editorial Portraits, The Church Militant Against the Saloon, The March of Events, etc. , believes that The World’s Work'<!<ss , sods come when all sensible people in this 7 elt tener | country should combine to_ build up igh teithe: Words and strengthen. This, after all, ° best represents the American spirit and. this has always been the particular hobby of the magazine: 1500 pages or more each year and more than 1000 graphic illustrations. LO/ comicbooks.com