Life, 1915-02-18 · page 41 of 44
Life — February 18, 1915 — page 41: what you’re looking at
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This page mixes advertisements with editorial content from circa World War I era. **Main Editorial**: E.S. Martin's piece praises Henry Ford as evidence that individual enterprise can overcome governmental incompetence and "official misrule." Ford represents a self-made man using power for public good, proof that "private competence still has a show" despite democratic machinery's flaws. **Advertisements**: - Holstein dairy products (top left) - Smith & Wesson automatic pistol (right), emphasizing safety and reliability - British-American War Relief fundraising (center), seeking donations for supplies and chloroform for battlefield operations—indicating this is WWI-era content **"Whales" section** (bottom right): A humorous fable comparing whales to orators, suggesting noise correlates with proximity rather than depth. The George Washington whale tale appears to be pure satire/nonsense humor typical of Life's style. The page reflects early 20th-century American values: admiration for industrial titans, charitable wartime giving, and manufactured humor.
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ASK FOR HOLSTEIN BUTTER AND CHEESE Holstein Milk is rapidly becoming recognized as the most healthful, nutritious and vitalizing milk for infant feeding, for growing children, invalids, convalescents, andsas a nourishing, easily digested food for the entire f The same qualities that give it such decided superiority that leading physicians indorse it, are shared by the butter and cheese made from it, Holstein Butter and Cheese are light-colored, like the milk. If you call for pure, fresh, uncolored butter in any first-class hotel or restaurant, you will receive light- colored, early white butter, "Don't imagine, that yellow tailk, golden butter and cheese are better, for they are not.” It is a fact that aniline dyes are otten added to butter for the purpose of getting the “rich” color that ig mistakenly believed by many to be a sign of fine ality. WOue booklet, The Story of Holstein Milk,” will belp you choose milk products intelligently. Write for it. | THE HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA | 14-X American Bldg., Brattleboro, ‘Vermont | ara Henry Ford on Henry Ford (Continued from page 290.) are bound to be misgoverned. Ours is very misgoverned indeed, but there is still elbow-room in it, and nothing that must necessarily restrain a man with yeast in him from expressing himself. Of that Henry Ford is the animated evidence, an encouragement to us all not to think that we are limited by the limitations of legisla- tures, or judges, or even bankers, nor hy all the stupidities of the stupid, nor the imperviousnesses of the wise. Here is a man using a great power, which he got neither by inheritance, nor by favor, nor by vote, hut by sheer desert, and using it, so far as he can see the way, to make life more agree- able and people better. Our demo- cratic machinery is not so bad so long as such men can climb out through it We can stand a great deal of official incompetence and official misrule so long as private competence still has a show. E. S. Martin AE nN HERAT a a | British. Avnedican War Relief Headquarters: 200 Fifth Avenue, New York aL Fi Rea ra Will You Help? $1.00 will buy 50 pipes and packages of tobacco. $1.20 will buy 1 Ib. of wool. $2.50 will buy 1 dozen pair of socks. | $6.00 will buy chloroform for 50 operations. $25.00 will buy chloroform for 200 operations. Contributions of Money, Hospital Supplies, Woolen and Knitted Articles, gratefully received All Cheques should be made payable to HENRY J. WHITEHOUSE, Treasurer British-American War Relief, 200 Fifth Avenue, New York es RRTANEA NT TERT Smith & Wesson Automatic Doubly safe - Safe for the user; safe against the meddler. It fires when you want it to, not before. Easy to load; easy to clean; built like a watch for accuracy, and strong for endurance. Get your dealer to show you the special features of the S & W Automatic. Booklet on request. SMITH & WESSON 806 Stockbridge St. pringfietd Every Smith & Wesson is the Best of its kind Whales HE whale, like the orator, makes the most noise when nearest the When he goes deep you never hear him. Whales spend their time in ocean travel and taking the air, There was once a whale named George Washington. His father had caught a favorite human beir and had put him in the refr to keep, when George happened along and swallowed him. George's father, missing Jonah, which was the name of the dainty, suspected George, and took him out into a back ocean cur- rent. George thereupon began to weep salt tears, but, with prodigious courage for a whale, said: “Father, I cannot tell you a tale. I swallowed Jonah with my little swal- lower.” Whales are used to lubricate sewing- machines, to decorate museums of un- natural history, and to reduce to a pulp a woman's waist-line. surface of things.