Life, 1918-12-19 · page 14 of 34
Life — December 19, 1918 — page 14: what you’re looking at
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**"Attention of Mr. Burleson"** (top article): This addresses a campaign to end child labor, noting that Mr. Burleson (likely Postmaster General Albert Burleson) should consider taxing corporations to fund this effort rather than allowing exploitation to continue. **"Are You Meticulous?"** (middle section): A commentary on the word "meticulous" entering literature, noting its rarity but value in describing careful attention to detail—relevant to both heroes and heroines. **"The Intelligence Office" (bottom cartoons)**: A three-panel satirical strip showing government bureaucratic confusion "Yesterday and To-Morrow," likely mocking post-WWI administrative inefficiency or Republican congressional efforts to regulate presidential power (referenced in the text). The large illustration at top shows children playing, relating to the child labor discussion.
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Attention of Mr. Burleson THE campaign to end chk hor forever is now well under way Schemes for taxing it are receiving the favorable attention of legislators. Pub lic opinion is being educated. Speeches are being made. Pamphlets are being circulated. As long as people continue to have children, however, and as long as the mass of human beings who have then are struggling for existence, some method of exploiting them will be dis covered, Parents themselves exploit their children, pressed by economic necessity If a child is born of wealthy parents he stands a fair chance of going to the devil. If his parents are poor then he is forced to work prematurely. It is presumed that people will ¢ tinue to have children for some time to come. It is presumed that the majority of people will continue to he poor \ happy medium is to cut down the total number of children, Mr. Burle son, when he has time, might do far us. If he can cut down the profits of corporations, gag the press and put the periodicals out of business, why should he not have the privilege «¢ saying who shall be born? Te efforts of the Republicans in c Tongress to regulate the President remind one of the antics of animal- in a drop of water. The animal- F MORN OF F ; THE HORN OF PLENTY culae can raise hob in the drop, but they ¢ ct itself incorporated current literature, but up to the hour of going to press, it seems to have won. When a modern writ wishes to he ori in somewhere. It does not matter much where it is. So long as it is where, it stands for everything that a modern writer thinks he ought to have Heroines are meticulous; so are heroes. Everybody, in current literature, is occasionally meticulous ITH the end of the war the swivel- r occupant is on the anxious THE INTELL d= MORROW