Life, 1917-04-19 · page 14 of 42
Life — April 19, 1917 — page 14: what you’re looking at
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The page contains three distinct pieces: 1. **"Try It, Doctor"** — An editorial criticizing scientists who conduct cruel experiments on animals in the name of medical progress, arguing they should test on condemned humans instead. 2. **"Hats Off"** — A sketch (right) showing a figure tipping their hat to a crowd, likely depicting a public figure or politician being celebrated. 3. **"Another Ford Joke: The One-Man Submarine"** — A cartoon showing a Model T Ford converted into an underwater vessel, mocking Ford automobiles. This type of "Ford joke" was common satirical fodder during the early automotive era. The page also includes brief articles on magazine subscription quality and declining membership in the Arian Society, reflecting social concerns of the period.
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‘LTP E* Try It, Doctor If Science, forsaking its habits of pitiless cruelty, would reverse its methods and make its experiments along humane lines, what respect and admiration she would win for herself! Instead of putting on a dog's cage “ No food of any kind" for attendants’ orders and slowly starving him to death, why not select some forlorn, emaciated un- fortunate for experiment to see how quickly it can be built up with judiciously apportioned feeding into not a diseased animal but into a perfectly conditioned specimen, But dealing in tortures and dabbling in death, disease and revolting conditions seem to be the purpose of the scientific mind. Thus have been pros- tituted the noble aims and gentle purposes of the Healing Art—From Living Tissue. LSO, it might prove a distinct benefit to the physician by increasing faith in his benevolence. Vivisection, medical etiquette, serum and too many surgical operations are doing serious damage to an honorable profession. Recall of Editors T is doubtful if the recall of editors would work out satisfac- torily, But what is more annoying than to subscribe for a magazine after having seen two or three issues and reached the conclusion that you are unable to live without it, and then find that every issue after your subscription has begun is duller than the one that pre- ceded it? The recall wouldn't be the thing perhaps, nor impeachment, nor could said editor be reached by a fraud order, and of course we all dislike sitting down and asking for a cancellation and rebate. Nevertheless, the need is urgent, and our well-known inventiveness ought to be equal to the situation. ANOTHER FORD JOKE THE ONE-MAN SUBMARINE “HATS Orr” Arions Declined A GOOD many people objected to the “declaration of loyalty” be- cause they thought it impertinent or superfluous. Perhaps one man in five took that view. But the only organiza- tion in which five men out of five took it seems to have been the Arion So- ciety. There must have been something in the declaration which, coming along just now, clashed with some ingredient that goes all through the Arion Society. German Melancholy M people who have lived in Germany speak of the melancholy that hid in the back of the German mind,—an instinctive apprehension of some tragic detail of destiny, not to be avoided. Perhaps it was the shadow of the great and difficult duty of sacking the Hohenzollern family that darkened the German mind. No telling how much that fate-ridden mind may brighten when that ominous duty has been ac- complished.