Life, 1916-12-28 · page 13 of 41
Life — December 28, 1916 — page 13: what you’re looking at
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The main illustration depicts a classical scene with figures in period dress gathered around what appears to be a statue or monument. The caption identifies this as referencing **J. Cairn Knott, Jr., who was expelled from four colleges**. The accompanying article "Prejudicial to Repose" discusses a suffrage-banner incident at Congress involving Mrs. Hillis, daughter of Thomas F. Bayard. The late ambassador apparently had his grave disturbed when the banner was torn down—the satire mocking this as overly dramatic concern. The right column contains **"Things We Shrink from Knowing,"** a list of social critiques including references to President Wilson's re-election, vice films, suggestive magazines, and various American social problems like child labor. The overall tone suggests early 20th-century satirical commentary on contemporary social and political issues.
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1181 Things We Shrink from Knowing T! Mary Pickford is married. = truth, Ourselves. While we are not averse to having President Wilson re-elected, we are sorry to hear him say that he will make practically no changes in his Cabinet. Fifty per cent. of the vice films shown at the picture theatres are made for commercial and not moral pur- poses. Suggestive magazines are growing in numbers and size, while the periodicals of serious literary purpose are having a fight for existence. A surgeon may cut at a man until he kills him and still enjoy an honorable freedom, but a drunken man may cut at a man and kill him and be locked up for life. The more our wives and daughters spend for clothes the worse they look. We never have enough prosperity to reach all strata of society and make them satisfied. The son who has just come home a college graduate doesn't really know much, The present great wave of pros- perity in this country is founded on the misfortunes of Europe. GREAT AMERICANS I, CAIRN KNOTT, JR, WHO HAS GAINED DISTINCTION BY BEING EXPELLED FROM FOUR COLLEGES Prejudicial to Repose 'HE newspaper account of the suf- frage-banner episode at the open- ing of Congress had this information: Mrs. Hilles, a daughter of the late Thomas F. Bayard, gave out the fol- lowing statement after the banner was torn down, The late ambassador was rather an old-fashioned man. Someone ought to inspect his grave in the old Swedes’ The United States contains as hack- ward a state as Alabama. The ideals of our youth have been smothered by the sordid details of graveyard in Wilmington, and report money-getting. whether it looks as though he had turned over in it. We are producing fewer good novel- ists per thousand of best-sellers than ever before in our history. A Strain on Affection One republic must love another. —President Wilson, Thousands of free-born American children are enslaved in mills and fac- tories. H, yes; but Mexico is not a re public. It is a shindy. Must we love shindies too? Billy Sunday is scheduled to. save New York in 1917. comicbooks.com