Life, 1916-11-30 · page 33 of 42
Life — November 30, 1916 — page 33: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains three distinct elements: **Main Advertisement**: A Westinghouse Electric ad promoting motor-starting equipment, using technical specifications to convince buyers of product reliability and durability. **Anti-Vaccination Editorial** (left column): A caustic opinion piece attacking public health authorities for mandatory vaccination and serum injection programs. The author claims these medical interventions cause syphilis, consumption, and other diseases, and argues they harm infants. This reflects early-20th-century anti-vaccination sentiment—a fringe view even then, contradicted by vaccination's public health benefits. **Humor Sections**: Two brief comic items: one about a hen protecting her eggs using an "egg-ticket" (satirizing bureaucratic absurdity), and an advertisement for the "Morley Phone," a hearing device for deaf people. **Context**: This page exemplifies Life magazine's mix of serious critique, medical skepticism, advertising, and light humor typical of the era. The anti-vaccination screed represents discredited pseudoscience that unfortunately resurfaces periodically.
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7 mrrIee | ° ‘ Te ront Aecaine Riss | Making Light of Heavy Work rum’ into the spinal cord of the babes of New York City. “If the health authorities of this coun- try do not produce a nation of physical wrecks during the next generation, it will not be because they have not used every means within their power, but it will be because the people will finally get up in arms and lynch a bunch of the se- rumites. “Vaccination has produced a nation wide army of syphilitics, consumptives, nervous wrecks and morphine dope fiends, and now the Board of Health has come along with another ‘serum’ and is injecting it into the spinal cord of the innocent babe to make it a detriment to itself and society, if it should happen to live long enough to grow up. “ Doctors positively say that they have been unable to find a germ that would produce infantile paralysis, yet they are i) Sr | h ee a J injecting a’serum into the bodies of the babies to kill something that they know not of. “It is getting pretty near the time that the Medical Trust of this country was curbed, for if they have their say much longer, you will not have to raise your boy to be a soldier, for the reason that he will not live long enough to get ac- quainted with his mother. “The span of human life is getting shorter every generation and there is no other thing more to blame for it than serums that are being shoved into the systems of the infants by authority of Just imagine finding a perfect cocktail form- ula, buying the best liquors for it, and put- ting it in bottles on the ice. That’s just what Club Cockfails do for you expertly and at less expense, with ageing in the wood to perfect smoothness. In all ten varieties the Club Cocktail flavor is inimitable. G. F. HEUBLEIN & BRO. Hartford New York London Importers of the Famous BRAND'S A-1 SAUCE Compared with the generator of your motor-car’s electrical system, your starting motor may be thought to have an casy job, for while your generator must operate continually with the engine, your motor is called upon to. serve you only occasionally and then for a few brief moments. Yet, in the fraction of a second that follows the pressing of your foot on the button, your little starter must perform a task worthy of its mettle. It must turn the fly-wheel of your engine at the rate of 150 or more revolutions a minute. The strain upon the motor at the moment of starting is necessarily great. Cold weather, which makes the engine “ stiff,” increases it mark- edly. Westinghouse motors stand the strain. Furthermore, they're insu- lated by a Westinghouse process that protects the wiring against water, oil and gasoline, thus preventing short- circuiting and burn-outs. That half a hundred manufacturers pay the hi; for Westinghouse Equipment vincing evidence of its superior WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC & MANUFACTURING COMPANY SHADYSIDE Works. WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC ie Kguipment Department Virrssurc, PA the health (?) authorities. The question of the hour now is, what will the next serum be?” Lackawanna Daily Journal The Conscientious Hen Visitor From Town: What on earth's the matter with this hen? She starts attacking me when I try to take the egg from her nest. Look here, you silly thing, here is my exg-ticket ! —Fliegende Blatter (Munich) “Lean bear you with the MORLEY PHONE." It is invaible, weight- less, comf: le, inexpensive. metal, wires not robber. by anyone, young or old. The Morley Phone for the DEAF is to the ears what glasses the eyes. Write For Free containing testimonials of users all over the country. It describes ses of deafnew: tells how and why the MORLEY PHONE affords reef, Over a quarter of rilica veld THE MORLEY CO., Dept. 770, Perry Bidg., Phila, comicbooks.com