Life, 1913-11-13 · page 25 of 40
Life — November 13, 1913 — page 25: what you’re looking at
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The page features two elements: a classical engraving titled "Adam Has to Go to Work" (showing Adam laboring after expulsion from Eden) and two contemporary cartoon captions below. The cartoons mock wealthy figures through economic satire: **"Mr. Magnate, Who Never Pays Carfare"** ridicules a rich man who avoids paying public transportation costs despite his wealth—satirizing miserliness among the ultra-rich. **"The Widow Chuck, Whose Husband Died of the 'Bends,' Pays Three Fares"** references decompression sickness ("the bends"), a danger to deep-sea divers and tunnel workers. The widow apparently pays three fares (possibly for herself and dependents), suggesting economic struggle following her husband's work-related death—contrasting her honest payment with the magnate's cheapness. The accompanying text discusses Professor Bingham's expertise on South American conditions, though its connection to these cartoons is unclear. The satire targets class hypocrisy: the wealthy shirk obligations while working-class widows bear financial burdens from industrial accidents.
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je with him. Indeed, it has been pretty hard for a good many Americans, for some time, not to agree with him in advance. Only they hesitated to speak out in meeting. But now that Mr. Bing- ham—expert on contemporary conditions in South America, leader of the two Yale archzological and exploring expeditions among the Inca strongholds in the Peru- vian Andes, and Professor of South American History at Yale—has given his opinion and his reasons for it in so calm yet so convinced a manner and in a form so comprehensive yet succinct, it is to be hoped that more of us will dare+to say what we think on the subject; with the gradual result that more of us will dare to think as the facts demand. J. B. Kerfoot. FROM LIFE’S COLLECTION OF OLD PRINTS ADAM HAS TO GO TO WORK MR, MAGNATE, WHO NEVEK PAYS CAK- FARE THE WIDOW CHUCK, WHOSE HUSBAND DI OF THE “BENDS”, PAYS THREE FARES ED comicbooks.com