Life, 1916-06-22 · page 3 of 48
Life — June 22, 1916 — page 3: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **commercial advertising** for Pennsylvania Rubber Company's Vacuum Cup Tires, dominating the right side with product claims ("6,000 Miles Guaranteed"). The **left side contains editorial content**: a humorous sketch about automobile troubles and a serious essay on "Professors of Political Economy." The sketch depicts a motorist with mechanical problems consulting what appears to be a stalled mechanic—satirizing early automotive unreliability and the expertise gap between owners and repair workers. The essay discusses how political economists must observe social phenomena objectively, without moral judgment—a 1910s-era argument about scientific detachment in social study. Additional ads promote Canadian steamship travel and ebony tread tires, typical of Life's mixed editorial-advertising format during this period.
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tas Mat Nay ment, Gude Learn to Look for This Sign —everywhere the sign of a reliable dealer in auto- mobile supplies as well as wont lori’ ome eecee |i Pennsylvania Oilproof wees Vacuum Cup Tires. You pay for the | Quality - the | Safety costs ‘ you nothing Mendicant: sim, 1 WAVE PARALYSIS, SIX CHILDREN TO SUPPORT, MY WIFE 18 SICK AND WE ARE ABOUT TO BE DISPOSSESSED! Professors of Political Economy A PROFESSOR of political econ- omy, if he wishes to have a secure tenure on his job, is a man who believes that whatever is is right. That is to say, if he had a moral sense, he would he a fatalist. Things are neither right nor wrong with him; they are merely phenomena, social phenomena and_ political phenomena, to be observed and compiled and tabu- lated and charted and studied and analyzed and synthesized and desic- cated and devitalized. He must look with cold, unemo- tional eyes upon the seething cauldron of human affairs, of human antago- nisms, of human greed, of human in- justice, of human desires and friend- ships and envies and enmities, and he must discover and formulate the laws which govern this ungovernable mass; he must measure and maximize the mo- tives that actuate financiers and pro- VACUUM CUP | TIRES Only pneumatic tires ever submitted to official mileage test of The Automobile Club of America. Certified average of nine strictly stock casings 6,760 miles, including records of 10,164, 9,220 and 8,940 miles. You now pay practically ordinary prices for Vacuum Cup Tires, and you buy more mileage at a time at a lower rate of cost than ever. 6,000 Miles Guaranteed —per warranty tag on each casing. And you get at nocost guaranteed skid prevention on slip- pery pavements, or tires returnable at pur- chase price. Guaranteed Oilproof. , PENNSYLVANIA RUBBER CO. tread, ata moderate price. Gaaranteed Jeannette, Pa. per tag attached—for Bivecd (acters beck cod corte pei Milles, throaghost the United Stetes ond Conde Niagara to the Sea skers of the famous Vacuum afidently place our name and reputation behind the new Pennsylvania Oilproof EBONY TREAD A quality casing with black, ribbed Tue most satisfying trip in America for health and recreation, 800 miles of lakes, rivers and rapids, including the Thousand Islands, the exciting descent ofthe marvelous rapids, the historic associations of Montreal, Quaint old Quebec, and the famous Saguenay River, with its stupendous Capes, “Trinity” and “Eternity.” Up-to-date Canada Steamship Hotels at Murray Bay and Tadousac, Quebec. Send 6: postage for illustrated booklet, map and guide, to Joba FP, Pierce, Assistant Passenger Trafic Manager, 131 R.& O. Bidg., Montreal, Canada, CANADA, STEAMSHIP. LINES UES SR moters and magnates and union men and non-union men and floorwalkers and delicatessen proprietors and every- body else individually, collectively, jointly and severally. His professional object is to show that it is al! inevitable and unalterable because it is part of a mighty science. The spiritual priests of old were wont to exonerate the masters and assuage the ills of the slave by solemnly asserting that it was the “ will of God.” These have heen replaced by professors of political economy, modern material- istic priests, who must perforce he satisfied with the greatest of social in- justices hecause they are the will of science. “A uittte learning is a dangerous thing.’ “Yes,” replied Miss Cayenne, “But that fact doesn’t justify some of us in being proud of how little we know.” —Washington Star. comicbooks.com