Life, 1914-08-06 · page 33 of 40
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This page is primarily **advertising** interspersed with a brief satirical essay on lawyers. The main editorial content ("Best People: The Lawyers," continued from p. 230) argues that lawyers serve a practical function—not as masters imposing law, but as our defenders and helpers navigating existing rules. The author notes that real law-making comes from society's masses (social workers, labor activists, suffragists) pushing against the Constitution itself, which was ironically created by lawyers. There's gentle satire here about lawyers being overtaken by reformers and revolutionaries. The page is dominated by advertisements: **Nabisco Sugar Wafers** and **Adora** wafers (competing confectionery products), **National Biscuit Company**, **Cortez Cigars** ("for men of brains"), **Basline Autowline** (a steel rope towing device), and an Autowline anecdote called "Belle Didn't Worry" about a woman unconcerned about car breakdowns. No specific political figures or events are caricatured. The "satire" is mild commentary on institutional evolution rather than hard-hitting political cartoon work.
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Dorgan has no job: Walter G. Doty. Best People: The Lawyers (Continued from page 230.) approximations to the ideal law that the wit of society working through the lawyers and reformers and legisla- tors can fashion. The actual laws change and shift from generation to generation, and even from year to year, to match the changes in social, eco- nomic and political conditions, and the Progressive notions of mankind re- flected by judges and legislators as to what accords with justice. The real basis of laws is public opinion, which is constantly changing, and so, in prac- tice, there is always a great deal of government of men mixed in with such government of law as we attain to. For while men cannot alter the great 7 :. inflexible ideal law of human relations HESE incomparable sweets are the most universally that always exists and works whether it | popular of all dessert confections. Whether served is discovered or not, they can get new at dinner, afternoon tea or any social gathering, Nabisco views about what it is, and make Sugar Wafers are equally delightful and appropriate. In statutes and decisions accordingly with ten-cent tins; also in twenty-five-cent tins. great facility, and under those statutes and decisions we have to live while they last. ADORA THe lawyers’ job is to help us do it. Another dessert delight. Wafers of pleasing size and form The lawyers are not our masters with a bountiful confectionery filling. Another help to whose laws we must obey, but our the hostess. In ten-cent tins. servants and helpers in our difficulties with the laws we have to live under, | zi They are our defense against a greater ASS NAT IONAL degree of improvement than our vul- 5 wey : nerable frames can stand and against A DOR A 3 B ISCU IT too headlong a precipitancy in prog- Afuuso SuOAR WHER, ss. As le thi t them- < celves zealous law-makers, though they PF COMPANY SS ~~ are usually employed to write the laws that our real rulers insist upon making. An exception is our new income tax law, which is understood in Washing- ton to have been written, not by a lawyer, but by the eminent literary obscurantist, Mr. Henry James. Our real law-makers are social workers, prohibitionists, laborites, suffragists and other revolutionaries who don’t like things as they are and have the energy to buck against them. The new laws come up from the mass of 0G BRAINS or less troublesome nowadays for that the people and bump their heads G. ARS reason, For lawyer-made law, when against the Constitution, which, to be it is a good job, holds pretty stub- sure, was lawyer-made, and is more “MADE AT KEY WEST2— bornly, though its case is like that of -! a dam, which holds back er, to be 3 a 3 7 - sure, but if there is water enough it runs over the top. Belle Didn’t Worry NZ | E. S. Martin. “Might have been anxious before we got a Basline Autowline— but now, a breakdown is just a matter of letting some nice young man tow us home: that's alll” Basline Autowline “The Littte Steel Rope With The Big Pull * Heknows that ordinary troubles wont leave him crippled miles. fom repairs. ‘sline Autowline is made of Yellow Stran. steel wire rope that is used for constructing and engineer- ing purposes the world over. About 25 feet lon; inch diameter, 4% pounds weight. Sold by all supply dealers. Price, east of Rocky Mountains, $3.95. FREE! Mustrated circular giving all Autowtine information. ERICK & MASCOM ROPE CO. am 800 8, S04 Bireet, ™ x pe ee “GkEAT SCOTT! AND 1 ONLY SNEEZED In atl”