Life, 1917-11-15 · page 31 of 40
Life — November 15, 1917 — page 31: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
**Left cartoon ("We've Got 'Em Now"):** A man in formal dress speaks with an older bearded gentleman (likely representing a socialist or radical), asking if he's doing "patriotic work." The man replies he uses his wife and five daughters to wind wool—a joke suggesting domestic labor as patriotic contribution during wartime (likely WWI era). **Editorial commentary** beneath mocks radical activist Rheta Childe Dorr's calls to educate the "next generation" in socialist thinking. The writer sarcastically argues: thinking workers already run the country via voting and Mr. Wilson (President Woodrow Wilson); waiting for future generations is unnecessary. The piece ridicules progressive educational idealism as impractical. **Right side:** A full-page Pullman railway car advertisement emphasizing steel construction, safety, and luxury—standard corporate promotion, not satirical content. **Overall context:** The page reflects post-WWI American anxieties about socialism and radical reform, mocking progressive activists while celebrating capitalist enterprise.
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“ARE YOU DOING ANY PATRIOTIC WORK?” FLD SAY LAM, MY WIFE AND MY TERS ALL USE ME To WIND We've Got ‘Em Now HETA CHILDE DORR, who fur- nished twenty-four articles about the upset in Russia to the FE; ng Mail, says that in spite of all she saw there she is still as much a Socialist as ever. Beginning, she says, with the youngest children, “we must educate the next tion, in order to create the United States a thinking work- lass which will accept responsibil- ity as well as demand power, and into whose hands we can safely confide the destinies of the nation.” Please, Rheta, what do you think we have now? If the thinking workers are not running the country at present, who is? The destinies of the country are already in the hands of the voting masses, and they have just now con- fided them considerably to Mr. Wilson. If Mr. Wilson is not a member of the thinking working class, who is? If we had to wait until the next gener- ation was educated before we could hope to have a thinking working class, we should be in a bad way indeed. But we have not got to wait. We've got it now. Ske CLAUS has adopted a new plan. far-times have made his work especi ficult. To little chil- dren he will bring toys, as usual, but to all adults he is going to a year's subscription to Lire. This decreases his work and adds to their happiness. Building the Pullman Car 'HE strength of the Pullman car represents one of the best forms of in- surance travelers can buy. For seven years every car built by the Pullman Company for its service has been of solid steel. These cars possess the rigidity and strength of a battleship. During this period a large proportion of the older, but still modern, cars have also been rebuilt to almost equal strength. This has been accom- plished by introducing steel under-frames, steel vesti- bules and steel sheathing on the sides. In addition to the factor of safety, fifty years of ex- papore in designing and uilding cars has brought about an almost unheard of development in travel- ing convenience and luxury. The moder Pullman is fully equipped with the most up-to- ais steam fit- tings, electric wiring and plumbing. Itoffers adegreeof safety, innumerable luxuries and a personal service that have established a world- wide reputation. THE PULLMAN COMPANY hicago comicbooks.com