Life, 1914-01-01 · page 42 of 44
Life — January 1, 1914 — page 42: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising and book notices**, not political satire. The main content includes: **Rauch & Lang Electric Car Advertisement**: A lengthy pitch for an electric automobile company claiming 60 years of "leadership" in vehicle construction. The ad emphasizes engineering superiority and features their "Straight Type, Top-Mounted Worm Drive." **"A Good and Sufficient Reason"**: This brief editorial *does* contain social commentary—it sardonically argues that low teacher pay in industrial communities is deliberate policy. The author suggests factory owners intentionally keep schools unattractive to prevent competition with child labor, allowing them to maintain low wages. The piece criticizes communities' willingness to underfund education while profiting from child workers—positioning it as cynical but logical business strategy. **Evans' Ale Advertisement** and **book reviews** round out the page. The satirical bite here is in the editorial's dark irony: it presents exploitation as rational economics, inviting readers to recognize the moral bankruptcy of prioritizing factory profits over children's education.
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Every Rauch & Lang i Three Type SUE 3 of Control — Electric Car Front, Rear, Selective Dual caeieerets | ea lesire to drive, according to the number of hat of —— monarch's conveyance, Extscce: whether the ex: Controls and rakes are automatically in- Sedan Chair of sl terlocked by merely tumnis Antoinette of the im: . f Posing etate coaches of = a conditions. BADER SHIP To hold for 60 years the recognized supremacy in all vehicle con: To initiate new standards in engineering, design, mechanical and luxury of appointment in each successive era— To possess the ability to combine these in master-productions thi the genius of the artist and the skill of the finished craftsman— This is efficiency; this is true leadership—the factors that make & Lang Electric Society's Chosen Car. front seat to natural posi sired by detving struction— perfection, at embody the Rauch The latest Rauch & Lang introduces the famous Straight Type, Top- Mounted Worm Drive, guaranteeing reliability, maximum power efficiency with minimum cost of upkeep—a car of wonderful silence. No adjustments required. Rauch & Lang agents in all large cities will gladly demonstrate. Seating, Controlling, Braking and Top-Mounted Worm-Drive features are exclusive with Rauch & Lang cars, and, as well as the design of the car and other details of construction, are fully covered by United States patents pending and granted. THE RAUCH & LANG CARRIAGE COMPANY, 2224 W. 25TH STREET BRANCHES: New York, 1800 Broadway; Minneapolis, 1207 Place; Kansas City, 3501 Main Stre« Turkish Room Waldorf - Astoria ee Lang cars ill be exhibited in the Turkish Room pf the Waldorf-As- joria Hotel during e Grand Central Palace Show. A Good and Sufficient Reason 'T is easy to understand why teachers are paid so little in child labor dis Gua Grand Central Palace Show And also exhibit in theElectricVehicle Section at the Grand Central Palace during the Show. tricts. It is to the interests of those in control of child labor communities to make education 2° unattractive as possible in order that it may not enter into competition with those uplifting factories. By paying teachers with the maximum of meagerne: securing the lowest grade of service, it is possible to make the schools so ss and thus disagreeable that the children will actually prefer the mills. This, of course, is a splendid thing for business, because it helps to keep down wages. Let us, therefore, smile and congratulate these communities upon their long-headedness, But wh; communities so niggardly with their teachers? That is not so clear. indulgently y are other Books Received The Russian Ballet, by A. E. Johnson. (Houghton, Mifflin Co. $7.50.) Mount Saint Michel and Chartres, by Henry Adams. (Houghton, Mifflin Co. $6.00.) Charles Follen McKim, by Alfred Hoyt Granger. (Houghton, Mifflin Co. $6.00.) Hawthorne and His Publisher, by Caro- line Ticknor. (Houghton, Mifflin Co. $3.00.) My Voyage in the United States Frigate “Congress”, by Elizabeth D. Van Den- burgh. (Desmond FitzGerald.) Our Irish Theatre, by Lady Gregory. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.) The Crescent Moon, by Rabindranath Tagore. (Macmillan Co. $1.25.) On the Seaboard, by August Strind- berg. (Stewart & Kidd Co. $1.25.) Irishmen All; by George A. Birming- ham. (F. A. Stokes Co. $1.75.) Things I. Remember, by Frederick Townsend Martin. (John Lane Co. $3.00.) The Mastery of Grief, by Bolton Hall, (Henry Holt & Co. $1.00.) The Lady of the Lighthouse, by Helen $. Woodruff. (Geo. H. Doran Co. $1.00.) The Three Godfathers, by Peter B. Kyne. (Geo. H. Doran Co. $1.00.) The Unexpurgated Case Against Woman's Suffrage. (Paul B. Hoeber.) Deuces Wild, by Harold MacGrath, (Bobbs-Merrill Co., Indianapolis, Ind., $1.00.) Through the South Seas With Jack London, by Martin Johnson. (Dodd, Mead & Co, $2.00.) 1914 Owes You 365 Happy Days Ale Will help you to get them Why not be happy? RUSSIAN WOLFHOUNDS We are the oldest breeders and exhitt tors of these dogs in theWest and mui “SSfin sot, REARELs Prsadens st TRANSFER PATTERNS, Premium Catalog and BIG STORY MAGAZINE vod ealy ie fer eon ectnen et'30 Exabroldery Fi raed wach at Qoane of Embr All for fant 10 ce HOUSEHOLD T. P. CO., 814 ‘Jackson St, Topeka, Kan. comicbooks.com