Life, 1914-06-18 · page 36 of 44
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**"More Intervention" Editorial:** This piece satirizes U.S. military intervention policy. Life argues that if the government intervenes in Mexico and Colorado (referencing actual 1914 interventions and labor disputes involving Rockefeller's Colorado mining interests), logical consistency demands intervention in Alabama to protect child laborers in cotton mills. The satire exposes the hypocrisy: the U.S. claims moral authority to intervene abroad while ignoring comparable domestic abuses by powerful industrialists. **Kosciusko Advertisement:** This Budweiser ad exploits Polish nationalist sentiment by invoking Thaddeus Kosciusko, the Revolutionary War hero who fought for liberty. The ad absurdly claims Kosciusko would support moderate beer consumption, using his legacy to market alcohol under the guise of "temperance." It's propaganda disguised as patriotic advertising—appearing during Prohibition-era debates. **Other Content:** The page includes a Boston Garter sock ad and a humor piece on men's clubs (satirizing their gambling and drinking culture as substitutes for family life).
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"ETE E" More Intervention OW that we have intervened in Mexico and Colorado, why not intervene in Alabama? If we are willing to turn over the national intervening machinery for the benefit of some more or less definite class of oppressed in Mexico and if we are willing to aid poor, helpless Colorado in reestablishing constitutional govern- ment, why wouldn’t it be perfectly proper to land troops in Alabama, put the cotton- mills under martial law and declare that little children shall not be ground to death by unremittent toil? Of course, we would not want to do this if Alabama showed any disposition to do it for herself, but she doesn’t. She is as helpless before the cotton- mill owners as Colorado is before Rockefeller, “NATIONAL MIAO SERIES™ NO.3 Kosciusko—The Greatest of the Poles” R in the history of mankind has there lived a more ardent lover of Personal and National Liberty. He fought with intrepid valor under our own Washington for American Liberty. He devoted his life to regain the ancient freedom of his beloved Poland. Kosciusko hated any legisla- Zi tive attempt which invaded the Natural Rights of Man, fhe were alive to-day, every son of Poland knows that he would revolt at any LAW which declared:“Thou shalt NOTeat this—thou shalt NOT drink that.” Kosciusco knew that the light wines of his native land and the barley brews of Germany were good for mankind when used in moderation. He drank them himself to the end of his honored days, ° and who will DARE say that they in any way injured this migh ‘onality. For 57 years Anheuser-Busch have honestly tered) onest beers. Their great brand—BU DWEISER—is sold through out the world, and has helped the cause of true Temperance. Seven thousand, five hundred men are daily required to keep pace with the natural demand of Americans for BUDWEISER. Its sales exceed any other beer by millions of botdes. ayiteusen-puscit-sT:LOUIs,US.A. Bottled only at the home plant, e yn =>) Holds Your Sock Smooth as Your Skin Men who dress well prefer the silk Boston Garter for personal satisfaction GEORGE FROST CO. MAKERS, + + BOSTON CLUB is a place where a man can meet people he wouldn't want to ask into his own home unless his wife was away. Every little dub has a barroom all its own. This practice, we hasten to add, is not, how- ever, confined to little clubs. It is also indulged in by large clubs, middle- sized clubs and other clubs, Every club has a house committee, whose duty it is to receive and ignore all complaints, and, so far as in it lies—whatever that may mean—to con- ceal his identity from the members. Upon the members of the club, their quality and the amount of alcohol they can consume, depend the real moral standing of the club, Also the financial and whatever other stand- ings there may be necessary. Besides its members, every club has a house where gambling, in all of its forms except buying and selling stocks, can be indulged in by those who be- long to the Stock Exchange, and seek Variety from their daily toil. As a substitute for a family there is nothing that takes the place of a club, It keeps ‘a man up fully as late nights, shelters him from enemies, and by practice can be made to cost as much, Dentist: Have you been anywhere clse? Patient: our village. Dextist: And what idiotic advice did he give you? Patient: He told me to come and sce I went to see the chemist in you, sir—London Orem ooks. ean