Life, 1915-11-18 · page 49 of 52
Life — November 18, 1915 — page 49: what you’re looking at
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**Main Editorial**: A tribute to Herman Ridder, a German-American newspaper editor in New York who died during WWI. The piece acknowledges his difficult position—sympathetic to Germany but ultimately loyal to America. Life praises him for avoiding the "plots" attributed to other German immigrants seeking to divide American opinion. This reflects WWI-era tensions around German-American loyalty and espionage concerns. **Advertisements**: The page features ads for a Jeffery automobile ($1000), a garage ($69.50), and a diet book—typical period marketing. **Satirical Piece - "The Man with the Horn"**: A brief commentary suggesting pedestrians should carry horns to compete with aggressive motorists. It's a humorous critique of reckless drivers who use horns to intimidate slower pedestrians, proposing equal footing through mutual noise-making. This reflects early automotive-age tensions between vehicles and foot traffic.
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Herman Ridder 'T was sad that Herman Ridder, an able and likeable man, should have had his last days so clouded by mis- fortune and a conflict of fealties. He was sore tried, and not through fault of his. To be a German-American newspaper editor in New York this last sixteen months has been a sorrow- ful situation. Inevitably, Mr. Ridder saw Europe with German eyes and made the best of the German case there. If it had come to a choice be- tween Germany and the United States he would have gone with the United States and carried with him every Ger- man he could reach. He said as much as that, and it was truce. We should be thankful for him (and others like him) that he escaped the pain of such a choice. Herman Ridder was born and edu- cated in New York and lived here all his life and was identified with the politics and business of the town. There is a wide difference between him and his sort and imported Germans of the same profession whose chief claim to notice since they came here has been their activity in plots and efforts to induce division among our people Superfluous It is practically impossible for the average physician to familiarize him- self with the four or five thousand drugs and drug preparations in every- day use in this country. —Scientific American. Edoesnothaveto. Allheneeds do is to familiarize his patients with them. He succeeds so well that no- body ought to complain of being slighted. Eat and Grow Thin Thousands have done it safely and comfortably by the instructions in this book. Readable, practical, definite. By Vance Thompson. Price $1 at booksellers of from E. P. DUTTON & CO., ©! SETH AVENUE Four melee’ «Ameriaa’s i Standard Automobile ata $1000 Price” passenger Chesterfield type + Front deep real leather «Shipping weight.2750 pounds » Motor, magneto + Starting and lighting system, Bijur electric + Equipment, complete > Entire car qyx Jeffery-built. STANDARD SEVEN -PASSENCIR, $1015; wricheut Auriliary Seats, $1000 + THREE PASSENGER ROADSTER, $1000, SEDAN (Removable Tp) $465 * JEFFERY SIX, $150 ts divided « Driver's seat, adjustable « Upholstery ftery high-speed high-efficiency + Ignition, Bosc Moustrated booklet Beuros., The Thomas B. Jefe —— wemit Main Office and Works * et Ara rt eT The Man with the Horn OULD pedestrians get along better if they carried horns? It often seems as if joy-riders, speed-maniacs and horn-tooters derive their unjust powers to frighten pedestrians into incipient heart disease simply from the fact that they are able to fire off an ear-splitting blast from a diabolically contrived noise-producer. It must be that pedestrians now and then are abroad on just as pressing business as that of the average joy-rider, and are, therefore, in just as much of a legitimate hurry. Accordingly, if they were fitte 1 out with horns, they could meet the marauding auto- mobile more on an equality, and at the very least have the satisfaction of blowing an insulting blast by way of retort, and they might even gain a much more practical advan- tage over other and more humble pedestrians. comicbooks.com