Life, 1915-09-23 · page 12 of 48
Life — September 23, 1915 — page 12: what you’re looking at
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This page contains two satirical pieces from Life magazine (a date is not visible). **"Envy" cartoon**: Shows figures in a car looking down at poor children with toy wagons. The accompanying text by Ellis O. Jones sarcastically praises the Colorado (likely referring to Colorado Fuel & Iron Company) for its "enlightened" labor practices, while condemning it for a real incident where mine guards "killed and smothered and burned two women and eleven children on April 20, 1914." Jones condemns the company's silence and calls their acquittal an outrage. **Bottom cartoon**: A "Reporter" and "City Editor" dialogue mocks newspapers' claim to have "revolutionized medical science" through sensational discovery stories, when actually they're "doing nothing." Both pieces critique institutional hypocrisy and irresponsible journalism.
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Consider the War Lord CONSIDER the ways of the War Lord. He toils not, neither does he spin; yet Solomon in all his glory was not able to gather together so much gold braid and so many brass buttons, He has much to say about the honor of his country, but he does nothing to add to the said honor, On the contrary, he adds to the country’s economic burdens in time of peace and to its miseries in time of war. He has much to say about defending his country, but he does not defend it with his own life, which he con- siders much; he defends it with the lives of other men. Consider the War Lord well, for you may never see him again. He has somehow got into the wrong century. W hear from Washington that the Panama Canal shows a profit of $230,833.00 for the first fiscal year of ten and a half months. This is a pretty good showing, consid- ering all things, and inasmuch as the Canal is one of the very few American enterprises that does not have to pay interest on the water in it, it is most encouraging. Behold the Colorado! EE and behold the Colorado! Beautifull Was there ever a more effulgent condition of disrepair, disarray and disrepute? See how it loves property rights and see how it hates human rights! See how the Colorado is perfecting and refining its notions of justice! Lo and behold, the Colorado has no punishment, not even a word of censure, for the mine guards who killed and smothered and burned two women and eleven children on April 20, 1914. But sce, the Colorado has just found a union leader guilty of a crime that everybody knows he did not commit and sentenced him to life imprison- ment. Ah, what wisdom! And what per- fection of subtle niceties! Where does the Colorado acquire such an enlight- ened brand of jurisprudential rectitudi- nosity? Alas! It is all shrouded in mystery. Perhaps the owners of the Colorado know, but when they are put on the witness stand they withhold all infor- mation that might inform and emit only words that have a pleasing sound but “ELLISON HOOvER)- HOW ABOUT A STORY ON THE SUBJECT “ MEDICAL SCIENCE . 'D BY STARTLING DISCOVERY "? No meaning: City Editor: THING DOING, WE'VE REVOLUTIONIZED MEDICAL SCIENCE Ellis O. Jones. THREE TIMES THIS WEEK,