Life, 1914-03-05 · page 51 of 60
Life — March 5, 1914 — page 51: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page combines advertisements with social commentary. The **top section features ads** for Pantasote automobile top material and Cascade whisky, using humor (a duck cartoon about wading) to sell products. The significant content is the **bottom article, "Those Philanthropical Employers,"** which satirizes Alabama cotton mill owners' defense of child labor. The piece attacks mill operators who justify employing children by claiming rural families benefit from the work. Life's editors counter that this argument is actually insulting—suggesting the only way parents can improve their children's lives is by putting them in mills reveals how dire conditions truly are. The sarcastic tone ("Right from an unprejudiced authority") undermines the mill owners' claims as self-serving propaganda. This reflects Progressive Era activism against child labor exploitation, positioning Life as advocating for child welfare reform against industrial interests defending harmful labor practices.
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Molly Hen: GUESS WE CAN WADE ACROSS ALL RIGHT—THERE’S A FELLOW STANDING RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE MELLOW AS MOONLICHT and sweltering sun are trained on your Automobile Top, it’s then that you realize the big difference between genuine Pantacote Top Material } JV HEN the sky batteries—rain, snow, sleet, hatt, dust-storms and the kind that only looked like sntocots when ncw Pantoocots is really weather-proof. Pontooote will not fade and look shabby—it will not stain from oil or grease or dirt. You can easily wash it clean with soap and water. Every Pullman railway car uses Qntesots for window curtains and has for many years, Pullman standards are the highest. Every Motorist will benefit by knowing the facts about #entosots —how it has been manufactured in one quality for over 20 years without any successful imitators. Write today for “What's What in Top Materials” This book has invaluable tnformation for the motorist. It rips open and dissects ali kinds of Top materials—Pantasets included. Write for it today and we will send it without cost. We are conscien- bi The Pantasote Company tious and uncom- 163 Bowling Green Building promising in our | New York City Look for this label on your Top—furnished free to Top work of making makers with every yard of Vanwoote Cascade the su- perior whisky. 2 , . That's’ why it. is Sa Those Philanthropical Employers i * EFENDERS of child labor in Alabama mills assert that many of us are liars, and that we don’t know what we're talking about One cotton mill man writes light. that “everyone who knows the true condition of affairs appreciates that families 4 with a large number of children who are old enough to work in the mill are a great deal better off at the mill than they are back in the country from where they came”. i There you are! Right from an unprejudiced authority. How would you like to Geo. A. Dickel & G live in a state where the only way you could make anything of your children was by Distillers putting them in a cotton mill? This is a more decisive bit of slander than any indulged Nash Tenn in by the child labor reformers, but it throws an entirely new light on those philan- mellow as moon- Ong comicbooks.com