Life, 1915-05-13 · page 47 of 52
Life — May 13, 1915 — page 47: what you’re looking at
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This page contains satirical commentary on American social and political issues circa 1910s-1920s. The **"Civil Service Examination"** cartoon mocks exclusive golf clubs by presenting absurd membership questions—asking if applicants will remain ignorant of rules, whether they cheat on their scores, and if they'll buy expensive trophies. It satirizes the pretension and dishonesty of elite suburban leisure culture. The **"They Went Out to Hunt Up a Tiger"** section ridicules military incompetence, referencing a headline about Columbia students protesting Army officers' activities. The poem mockingly suggests soldiers confused lions for tigers, playing on the notion of military bungling. The remaining content comprises **advertisements** (Old Saratoga Whiskey, Denby Motor Trucks, bedding) interspersed with a serious article titled **"What Do We Know?"** discussing child labor. This final piece uses a philosophical question about consciousness after death to pivot toward examining awareness of real social harms—specifically, thousands of children driven into labor by strikes, suggesting the public remains unconscious of actual injustices.
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Civil Service Examination On Admission to a Suburban Golf Club. RE you entirely unfamiliar with £% the rules, and will you promise to keep yourself in profound ignor- ance of them so long as you are a member? Do you ever play golf with your own wife? If so, what excuse have you to offer? What is the lowest score you have ever said you've made? Do you know a bogey when you see cne? A par? A stymie? Before the end of the season, will you buy on the installment plan, if necessary, a solid pewter cup for a prize? Columbia Students Protest to Wil- son About the Activities of Army Officers.—Headline in New York Evening Post. UT let’s not worry. At least Mr. Wilson knows students, They Went Out to Hunt Up a Tiger! “C)H, well, we did drop our guns and |™ our tigers turned out to be lions! But | at least we've got our Old Saratoga! Here’s hoping we’ll have more luck than the ‘Lady of Niger’, She went home, ‘The Lady in- side, and a smile on the face of the tiger’.’” When rem QfdSaratogg drink SRT RAUEINE ask for WHISKEY and then make sure you get it. _M sour dealer hasn't OM Saratoga in stock, send us six dollars and we will see that you get at once four full quarts, all charges paid. Rosskam, Gerstley & Co., Philadelphia YOU CAN SLEEP on your sleeping porch, or camping, ‘a BLK. B. Ie fe comto 1 not fall off, and induces NIGHT MFG. CO., 6 Harvard Square, Cambridge, Mass. “Talk it over with the Den- byman” “Cannon Fodder ”— and its effect on you The warring nations of Europe are regulating, among other things, the cost]of your delivery system—if you use horses—for the next ten ‘years, For it will require at least that period to replace the wastage of draft horses caused by the war. This means considerably higher prices; with much greater difficulty in maintaining quality. The satisfactory solution of your delivery problems is to be found only in the efficient motor truck, properly adjusted to your business needs. Denby trucks are the choice of an increasing number of farsighted busi- ness men. They are designed from the viewpoint of what the user needs, rather than what the manufacturer would like to sell. They are fitted to a business—not merely tacked on to Denby trucks are made in four types—3/-ton, one-ton, one-and-a-half ton and two tons. Each type represents the latest development of en- gineering knowledge. They are made in a new, up-to-date plant, free alike from obsolete ideas and obsolete machinery. There is, probably, a Denbyman in your town. It will pay you to get in touch with him, for Denby trucks will do your delivery work much better, at less money, and cover more territory than any other delivery system. This can easily be proven to your satisfaction. Denby Motor Truck Company 34 Dubois St. Detroit, Mich, Interesting literature mailed on request | ‘Standar) d Manuf cturing ompan What Do We Know ? 'S the question, “Do we retain consciousness after death?” half so important as the I question whether we have consciousness before death? What consciousness of the real things which invariably happen to it are retained by the average child? As an example of this, Frank Comerford, attorney for the strikers, recently read before the Commission on Industial Relations the results of a social survey made among them, in which he estimated that the number of children driven into child labor by a single strike was two thousand, nine hundred and forty. These children were totally unconscious of the forces controlling them. Cannot the same thing be said of all the rest of us? comicbooks.com