Life, 1915-09-30 · page 32 of 45
Life — September 30, 1915 — page 32: what you’re looking at
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This page contains two distinct satirical pieces: **"See the Health Board"** attacks the Board of Health's pasteurization mandate. The author argues pasteurization reduces milk's nutritional value and digestibility, and that proper sanitation would be superior. The real complaint: the Board uses pasteurization as an easy mechanical substitute for rigorous inspection, benefiting equipment manufacturers and negligent dairies while appearing to protect public health. It's a critique of bureaucratic laziness disguised as public service. **"The Act Isn't Going Right, Doctor"** shows two muscular figures (likely representing military/industrial interests) straining under the weight of a child labeled with various "fads"—criticizing how current social trends burden society. **"Anxieties of Bro. Hearst"** mocks William Randolph Hearst's complaints about insufficient domestic arms manufacturing while America supplies weapons to England. The satirist questions why anyone still listens to Hearst's pronouncements. The page reflects early-20th-century Progressive Era skepticism toward both government regulation and wealthy industrialists' influence.
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620 See the Health Board O and behold the Board of Health! Yes; what a pompous little Board of Health it is!’ What is the Board of Health doing? The Board of Health is busily en- gaged in spoiling the milk supply. Isn’t that a strange thing for a Board of Health to do? No more so than some of its other practices. How does the Board of Health go to work to spoil the milk supply? By pasteurizing it. How does that spoil it? Pasteurizing the milk is a method of cooking the milk so that its taste is ruined, its nutritive value reduced and its digestibility seriously impaired. The, best doctors refuse to feed pasteurize milk to delicate children. # But is there no advantage at all to be derived from this practice? None that could not much better be accomplished by proper sanitation and other methods of protecting the milk and preserving it in its pure and wholesome state. But surely the Board of Health would not recommend and require pas- teurization unless it did some good to somebody. Tt does good to the Board of Health, of course, by reducing its labors to a mechanical routine while permitting it A scientist contemporaneous Found that beauty was not subcutaneous. “Alas!” sighed the sage, “Tt speaks bad for the age— Her Lloom is entirely extraneous.” “THE ACT ISN'T GOING RIGHT, DOCTOR, I'M AFRAID WE'RE PUTTING A BIT OF A STRAIN ON HIM” to draw ample salaries from a credu- lous community. To pasteurize is much easier than to organize efficient inspec- tion to see that milk which comes from the cow pure shall be kept in that condition. And then, to be sure, it helps the makers and sellers of pas- teurizing equipment. And is that all? It helps the careless, low-grade dairy- men by giving them an easy substitute for sanitary measures, thus ‘permitting them to sell milk which is not fit to drink, Why is the Board of Health allowed to interfere with the public health in this injurious fashion? Go ask the moon or the stars or the Sphinx or the psychologists or some one else who has made a study of matters which to the ordinary mortal are unaccountable. Ellis O. Jones. Anxieties of Bro. Hearst ROTHER RANDOLPH HEARST is concerned about our lack of arms, and begs to have the manu- facture of arms made a government monopoly, so that our own people may be supplied first. He deprecates the possibility of our having to face in hostile hand: “the very arms which from motives of gain we are now furnishing England for the murder of other people.” Too bad, too bad! But is anyone paying much attention to William nowadays? RAWFORD: I can’t agree with Bryan, who wants peace at any price, Crassuaw: Well, even he is better than the Kaiser, who wants peace at his own price, comicbooks.com