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This page mixes advertisements with political satire. The main editorial piece attacks President Woodrow Wilson, claiming his "great failure" is not traveling enough. The unnamed satirist contrasts Wilson unfavorably with his predecessor William Howard Taft, who allegedly traveled extensively, broke speed records, and went around the globe multiple times. The satire's target becomes clear in the quoted interview with "Mr. Dewitt Underhand" (a transparent fictional name suggesting dishonest dealings). This character—apparently representing lobbyists and corrupt officials—complains that Wilson's focus on actual governance makes it "harder every day for a lobbyist to make an honest living." He laments that Wilson takes duties "too seriously" and sets a bad example by not traveling around making speeches while letting officials handle affairs of state. The joke critiques both Wilson (for allegedly neglecting travel) and, more sharply, exposes the corruption of the previous administration and the lobbying interests opposing Wilson's reformist approach.

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WHY WASTE GOOD CIGARS! By letting them dry up. DAMP-GUN actomatically keeps your cigars in just right Your body was once : like this One filling gives several months ‘even dampoess. Use in any position umidor or box of cigars. Adiust- ia ar tar ‘any desired dampness, Ei f Sy stamps preferred. Use any liquid. ‘Will last for years New York, N. Y. Sent postpaid on receipt of Sc. The Theta Co. P. O. Box 382 Youth is a tragic thing—for those who have wasted it. Youth is not a matter of years only. I know men of sixty who are younger than the average business or pro- fessional man of forty. And premature old age is so criminally unnecessary. You are built exactly as you were at twenty—same organs—same mus- cles—same system of cell reconstruction. The only trouble with you is that, to use a plain word, you are flabby. Unused muscles —the really important, internal ones—have grown weak from disuse and, as a result, functioning muscular organs like your heart and intestines are working listlessly at ir- regular speed. Now I, or rather you, can tone these vital, internal muscles up to normal strength. You can get back some of that insolent unconsciousness of body of your youth. You can stop those signals of distress which never let you forget your body. I say you can do this, not as an abstract theory, but because hundreds of men have regained their health through my instruc- tion. Frankly, they couldn’t have done it alone. When you have got your insides out of kilter it’s an expert's job to put them right. Wilson's Great Shortcoming Does Not Travel Enough—Sticks Too Close to Business—Bad Example ASHINCTON, Nov. 15, 1913.— The Wilson administration has now gone far enough to prove that its great failure is due to the fact that the President spends practically no time in traveling. Keen observers and analysts of things political that such a policy must be fatal. In this, as in many other of his activities, Mr. Wilson is acting wholly without precedent. It is generally conceded that the great success of the last administration was due to the assiduity of Mr. Taft in keeping in close touch with all parts of the country at all times. Before his administration was as old as Presi- dent Wilson's is now, the records show that he had passed - several times around the circumnavigable globe, broken cight speed records, eleven dis- tance records and four talking records. It is claimed, moreover, that his declare thoughts wandered even farther and more freely, “Wilson is certainly making a great mistake,” emphatically declared Mr. Dewitt Underhand in an interview late last night in the bar-room of the New Willard. “He has interfered My book, “Human Energy,” will help you to find out what is the matter with you and will tell what assistance I can give you to benefit yourself. It is sent free. with the established government more than any man I have ever known. It is getting harder every day for a lob- byist io make an honest living. If The he would only go around the country and make speeches we could attend to the affairs of state all right and everything would go along much more smoothly. He is taking the duties alto- Health is worth a postal J. EDMUND THOMPSON Suite 92, Thompson Course Exchange Building WORCESTER, MASS. * gether too seriously, and it sets a very e = rl I l e bad example to other officials, heads of departments, clerks and so on. It is Automobile Tires very discouraging to some of us who have nursed the government along and It’s just a question of whether you want your tires got it just where we wanted it. made in bulk or with individual care. Kelly- Springfield Tires are made one at a time, by hand. KELLY-SPRINGFIELD TIRE COMPANY __ Cor. B'way & 57th St Branch ofices a New York. Chicago, PAiludelphia, Boston, St. Louis, Detroit nat, San Francis i land, Batimore, Seattle, Atlanta. Akron, O., Bufalo, Bering Tire and Rubber Ci Todd Rubber Co., New Hi Biioson Tire & Sopsly Co Dicks He, Fla. ©, D. Franke & Co.. 0 s. K. & 8 Auto Tire Co. a0 “M “ Never.” The young man was jarred, but not wholly discouraged. Presently he came back in this fashion: “Well, will you let me be yours? —Pittsburgh Post. Womeat, will you be mine? Heuston, Tesas >” TLR: Olustead & Soa, Syracuse, N. ¥- |. Terento, Con