Life, 1916-08-03 · page 8 of 38
Life — August 3, 1916 — page 8: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several satirical pieces mocking contemporary issues: **Top Cartoon**: Shows an elephant and donkey (Republican and Democratic symbols) in conflict, labeled "MAD DOG!" - likely commenting on partisan political hostility. **"Snapshots at the Near Future"**: Satirizes anticipated social changes, including millionaires doing housework and corner hospitals replacing saloons - mocking wealth redistribution anxieties and Prohibition. **"Bolder and Bolder"**: Criticizes unethical medical experiments on human subjects at Michigan State Asylum at Pontiac. The text expresses outrage that doctors experiment on institutionalized patients without consent, comparing such treatment to animal testing. **"Needed Reform"**: Brief critiques of newspaper supplements and public opinion formation. The page primarily attacks medical ethics violations and social anxieties about modernization.
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184 ‘LIFE When ArT R you have looked carefully over a certain house in the country, signed a year’s lease, put up a deposit, and there is no way out of it TI Joxes says: Nice place, old chap, but full of malaria. Sait: You ought to like it, if you are not eaten up by the mosquitoes. Roninsox: Yes, I know your landlord, to my sorrow. Awful man to deal with. Brown: Better get a motor boat for your cellar. Your Wire: If everything isn’t just right, remember, I shall always blame you. Snapshots at the Near Future MILLIONAIRE socicty queen doing her own housework. Corner hospitals (in place of saloons) to care for those run over in the intervening blocks. A woman seated, who is not knitting something. my Ny “THAT FORTUN: TO CROSS WATER AND I'D SOON M TELLER WAS RIGHT. SHE SAID | WAS GOING MANY ADMIRERS.” MAD boc! Bolder and Bolder ERRING to the experiments made upon living human beings in the Michigan State Asylum at Pontiac, Superintendent A. Christian (as reported by the Pitts- burgh Gazette Times) has this to say: There was no agony, physical or mental, caused by the operation. The subjects . . . exhibited no fear. They walked into the operating room, and while the surgeon's needle dipped into their brains they t2ughed and joked in their simple way. The fact that these experiments in Michigan were made upon helpless human beings for the purpose of establishing certain theories held by doctors is, of course, of no conse- quence, so far as the helpless human beings are concerned. Why should a human being have any rights not possessed by dogs and mon! Experiments on human beings are sceretly being made under cover of the hospitals, But in Michigan the surgeons grow bolder. It will be a short step from taking helpless people out of insane asylums to taking any one they can lay their hands upon, The principle is the same, whether they take your pet dog or your pet child. It differs not in kind; only in degree. Needed Reform VERY Sunday newspaper ought to give a cake of soap with its half-tone supplement. The picture supplements on coated paper are the dirtiest things that come into clean houses. pusic opinion is an opinion which the public doesn't know it has until it reads about it in the morning news- paper editorial.