Life, 1917-05-03 · page 39 of 42
Life — May 3, 1917 — page 39: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, with a brief editorial piece on "Representatives" at the bottom. The left side features a **Dunlop Golf Balls ad** with a testimonial from famous golfer Walter C. Hagen, promoting their quality. The dominant image is a **Hartford Shock Absorber advertisement** showing a woman demonstrating the product's benefits. The ad uses a customer testimonial explaining how the shock absorber improved their family car's ride on rough roads—no more bouncing or jumping. The bottom **editorial column on "Representatives"** is satirical commentary on political/professional representatives. It mocks how representatives claim to serve others while primarily serving themselves, and how this creates confusion about whose interests they actually represent. This appears to be general social satire about conflicting loyalties in representative roles, rather than targeting specific figures. The garbled note at top-left appears to be a humorous letter-writing example, though its exact satirical point is unclear.
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“IME LAVIN’ HEAR TOMORRA MI NOO ADRESS 12 KARE MISSUS SMITH AVON ROAD BUTT IF U RITE PUTT PLEASE FORWARD ON ANVELOP AS I PROBALLY WONT LIKE IT THAIR.” desires and satisfy them normally. As for dissipations, I will treat them pre cisely the way I treat my clerks in my business. If they are dissipated, if they cannot do their work—which is the supreme test—they will be eliminated.” Unfortunately, the man had neg- lected one slight detail. That was the effect of his college upon all other colleges. It was too easy for these colleges to demonstrate that under his system only those professors who are able ought to be permitted to teach, and only that kind of paraphernalia which the students created themselves would be used, and, inasmuch as the whole text-book industry was thus likely to be cast aside, something had to be done. The government, therefore, got out an injunction, the college was sup- pressed, and our popular industries, such as the making of poker chips, the dance hall and the Latin pony, con- tinued to meet with popular favor. DUNLOP GOLF BALLS Read What a Famous Champion Says: “THE DUNLOP is some ball, and I'am surely pleased with it. Tam putting better than I ever did. My approaching is fine and lam driving as far as ever. The DUNLOP is the best ball around the hole I ever saw.” Walter C. Hagen. Improve your game! Try “29” medium or “31” heavy | $10 per dozen BSc. each For sale by golf professionals DUNLOP RUBBER CO,, Ltd., | Birmingham, Eng. Reprodections of my original ink » framed or unframed. Send for illestrated lecelar and LLTITSWORTH. 1000 because I drive our car Boulevard a lot. Before we equip) noticed that it would bounce and jump even on a smooth road whenonly one or two persons were in it; while ona rough road with the whole family aboard, we had to crawl along at a snail’s pace. Now, no matter what the load or road, we lide and don’t have to slow down either. Fhe car rides more steadily and obeys the wheel much better, too.” It makes all the difference in the world to ride on Hartford Shock Absorbers. Then there are no road limitations. You can go where you please—in com- fort. Incidentally, the absence of jolt, jar and vibration adds to the life of your car and materially cuts the cost of its upkeep. “Between You and Jolt, Jar and Vibration” js a booklet of intense interest to every car owner. Sent on request. EDWARD V. HARTFORD, Inc. 192 Morgan St., Jersey City, N. J. Branches: NEW YORK, BOSTON, CHICAGO, istributors in Principal Cities. Dealers Everywhere, Representatives REPRESENTATIVE, as it is wholly unnecessary to state, is one who represents something or somebody. All representatives who are human, and most of them fall in that category, represent themselves first and foremost. In order to represent themselves to the best advantage, representatives usually find it necessary to pretend to represent others in addition to themselves. This is where the trouble begins. The pretense and the real thing are always getting into each other's way. The effect of this is to scatter so much suspicion and doubt in the vicinity of the representative that often he himself is not sure whom he is repre- senting. comicbooks.com