Life, 1917-12-13 · page 9 of 40
Life — December 13, 1917 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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**The Cartoon:** Shows a formal dinner scene where a towering, shadowy figure looms over the diners. The "Toast Master Hearst" announces "WE HAVE WITH US TO-NIGHT," addressing the assembled guests around a table with wine glasses. **The Satire:** This appears to reference William Randolph Hearst, the powerful newspaper magnate. The cartoon satirizes his dominance and control—his massive shadow literally overshadows the dinner guests, suggesting his outsized influence over the proceedings and attendees. **The Article:** "Nourish or Pasteurize?" debates milk safety. It dismisses fears about pasteurization, arguing that raw milk requires sterilization to prevent disease. The text mocks people who accept unsupported claims, particularly regarding milk quality—suggesting some believed raw milk was healthier despite evidence. **Historical Context:** Early 20th-century American debates over food safety and scientific versus "natural" approaches.
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Toast Master Hearst: WE HAVE WITH US To-NIGHT Nourish or Pasteurize ? i LK ina natural state is good for human beings. This has been proven by actual experience. But in order ct it transported into the city and still kept in a saleable lition, it has become necessary to have it treated in such vanner that it will still appear to be wholesome. There- ¢ not only milk, but especially cream, is either Pas- rized or sterilized in some other way; and in order to it appear that this process is necessary, we have been hat, without this sterilizing process, the milk, instead g good for us, may actually communicate disease. thing had to be done, of course, to reconcile the ple who demanded milk and cream to the fact that here was no economic way to get them to them except by bbing them of their nourishing qualities. For there seems to be no doubt that sterilized milk does not begin to have the nourishment as raw or unsterilized milk. And so they invented this process. And because milk and cream will not keep unless they are doctored, and because they cannot ship them in from the farms in time to prevent them from spoiling unless they are doctored, then they play upon otherwise intelligent people this obvious trick For even presumably intelligent people will sometimes Lelieve anything that is told them. Especially if you can scare them into believing it. There are many tales, and true ones, of babies fading away under Pasteurized milk and regaining health when given the natural article.