Life, 1915-01-21 · page 37 of 44
Life — January 21, 1915 — page 37: what you’re looking at
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**Left Column - Political Satire:** The essay "Making Colorado's Acquaintance" mocks the endless investigations into Colorado labor disputes (likely the 1914 Ludlow Massacre coal miners' strike). It satirizes how Rockefeller—identified as both "stockholder" and "philanthropist"—launches separate investigations while nothing gets resolved. The piece ridicules the absurdity: multiple organizations (Congress, the Army, churches, newspapers) investigate repeatedly yet reach no consensus, and the author suggests that until labor radical Eugene Debs and capitalist Rockefeller sign a "treaty of peace," no real understanding emerges. The accompanying cartoon shows two men at a desk; one wants to show drawings to the editor, but the other advises waiting because the editor is "at a stag dinner"—a cynical joke about editorial priorities during serious crises. **Right Column - Advertisement:** Kelly-Springfield Tire Company advertisement claiming superior quality through hand-manufacturing, unrelated to the political content above.
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Making Colorado's Acquaintance SP pERE is every reason to hope that we shall know something about Colorado before an- =) other decade rolls away. Adding promised in- vestigations to those that have already been held, it bids fair to be the most exhaustively investi- gated commonwealth that ever aspired to recog- nition among civilized people. It has been investigated by employers’ organizations and by employees’ organiza- tions, and by the President's special repre- sentatives. It has been investigated by a detachment of the army. It has been in- vestigated by Congress. It has been investi- gated by the Committee on Industrial Relations. It has been investigated by at least two of its own Governors. Mr. Rockefeller, the stockholder, has had certain of his representatives investigate it. Mr. Rockefeller, the philan- thropist, is to have other representatives investigate it. Before he finishes he will no doubt have it investigated on behalf of himself as a Baptist, as a golfist and as any- thing else that he happens to be. It has been investigated by scores of correspondents of newspapers and less fre- quent periodicals, It has been investigated by Federated Churches, Organized Womanhood, Civie Associations and the like, to say nothing of myriads of detached citizens and citizenesses. And yet we know very little positive about Colorado. True we have heard that Mr. Rockefeller is willing to lose everything if necessary to protect his faithful mine employees, and we sce that the said faithful employees have not accumulated anything to lose in working for Mr. Rockefeller’s interests. Yet no two investigations agree with each other sufficiently to suit the average con- scientious individual. The average conscientious individual wants overwhelming evidence before making up his mind on a matter of this kind, and not until Mr. Debs and Mr. Rockefeller sign their names to the same treaty of peace is he il to venture an opinion. In the meantime we are all reading every investigator’s report with avidity in the hope that we shall all become so familiar with Colorado's crooks, twists, mannerisms and lineaments that she may yet be as well known a figure as Mr. Roosevelt, Mr. Hohenzollern or Mrs. Pankhurst. mae “1 WANT TO SHOW THESE DRAWINGS TO THE EDITOR” “IF YOU TAKE MY TIP YOU'LL WAIT TILL TO-MORROW, HE WAS AT A STAG DINNER LAST NIGHT” Most punctures are unnecessary Every experienced motorist knows that most punctures, so-called, are caused by faulty tubes rather than actual, 2<cidental incision through thetire. Leakage around valves, porous rubber and worn spots are only a few of the unnecessary troubles common to cheap machine-made tubes. The way to avoid needless punctures is to equip your car with tubes properly made by hand out of real rubber. Relly. Springfield Tubes are made that way— and we make them slowly enough and in small enough quantity to make them right. If you are tired of needless tube trouble, try them. Kelly-Springfield Tires are made the same way. You get the result i» in- creased mileage. Send for ‘* Documents in Evidence ”’ which tells the experience of others Kelly-Springfield Tire Company Broadway and 57th Street New York Branch Offices: New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, St. Louis, Detroit, Cincinnati, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Cleveland, Kansas City, Atlanta, Akron. The Hearn Tire and Rubber Co., Columbus, Ohio ‘The Boss Rubber Company of Denver, Colorado Springs and Pueblo, Colo. Southern Hardware & Woodstock Co., Ltd., New Orleans, La, Central Rubber & Supply Co., - Indianapolis, Ind. K. & S. Auto Tire Co.,Ltd, + Toronto, Ont. L. J. Barth, . - + Rochester, N. Y. The Southern Tire & Repair Co., Houston and Beaumont, Texas The Olmsted Co.,Inc., - + Syracuse, N. Y. Atkinson Tire & Supply Co., + Jacksonville, C.D. Franke&Co., + = Charleston, S. C. ‘Todd Rubber Company, + + New Haven, Conn. Seifert & Baine, - - - Newark. N. J. Barnard-Michael Tire Co, - Buflalo, N. Y.