Life, 1919-01-09 · page 3 of 34
Life — January 9, 1919 — page 3: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and commercial content** interspersed with brief editorial pieces, not political cartoons. The main political content is "The Red Flag" article by S.T. Steme, which argues satirically that capitalism—not communism—is the real threat. Steme claims that bank owners, homeowners, and the insured are all "capitalists," suggesting the Red Flag represents a danger to established property interests. The piece uses ironic rhetoric to criticize wealthy elites. The page otherwise contains ads for **Mum deodorant**, **Pinehurst resort**, **Herbert Tareyton cigarettes**, and **Cuticura Soap**—typical 1910s-1920s advertisements. The Herbert Tareyton ad features a man smoking, representing contemporary product marketing unencumbered by modern health warnings. The "Hint to Mill and Factory Owners" discusses child labor practices during wartime, advocating for factory efficiency improvements.
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m6 99 um The Red Flag : eo F it isn’t one thing it's another. For four anxious years it was the war —takes all the odor Now it's the red Rag! q _, : “Down with -capital!” shriek the out of perspiration red flaggers. . . The folks who bought Liberty Bonds At first women used it only in are capitalists summer The folks who subscribed to the war ia . : drive are capitalists NORTH CAROLINA Jow, every dainty woman who 5 ancwho owns a baiteaccount No S ; who owns a bank accoun Leads all Southern Resorts knows what ‘Mum’ does, uses it 1 I : \ 0 :very man whose life is insured is . _ inthe variety and interest after the bath all the year round. ery man w s " he vai I Get a jar today. 25 cents. ” Every i , fome 2 of its winter SPORTS set at J ) : who owns his own home ‘ Va? and Pastinics Millions of humble capitalists are Ash Gotr: Trap-Snootine « Mum” Mfg Co 1106 Chestnut Street Philadelphia living fairly contentedly under the Red, ay Mam Mie Se = S| Whterand Blac . . Racine: Rioinc-Drivinc Seamed Democracy: as practiced under that St Motorwc ‘Tennis A Hint to Mill and Factory tri-color—here and in France—has re- CAROLINA HOTEL { Owners cently given a pretty glorious acc ict that during the war Grea of itself. Alive with Interesting People itain has reduced by one-half t! Three cheers for the Red. White ee slity of children should tie dear to Blue” doesn’t mean three separate : aoe ¢ fice, Pinehurst, N.C of lark registered i arts of our southern mill owners. cheers for separate colors can be done in Great Britain, it Still less doe: mean two soft cheers crtainly be done in our fac for the White and the Blue and a loud Lope It is worth looking into. one for the Red Barnard’s Lincoln Not for he economic value of children is in- If you don’t like our flag, stay where London able. If the capacity, say, of a you are. GO & replica of St. Gandens’ Lincoln f ten can be increased, or if If you dwell in our midst and prefer is to go to London and the Barnard hildren of ten can be made to a monochrome standard, betake your- Lincoln is to stay at home till further where only one grew before, | selves speedily to the lands where the noti of the resultant profits! flag and the hands of those who wave | at is very well, and the best that factory owners should send a it are uniformly and unmistakably red! could be done ission to England to look up this S.T. Sterne. And yet, it is not wholly satisfacte tant matter. The time is short. se Mr. Barnard, with better luck, ULIUS CHESAK always regretted have beaten St. Gaudens. His idea of that he was not born tivo thousand Lincoln, the man of the people, had cars later, so that he might have be- merit in it. The St. Gaudens statue is in several years from now sor Taw will be passed in this that will actually prevent children from doing any work. pat wOseriber tv Let a little idealized, and if the Barnard ry owners owe it to themselves statue, conveying a somewhat different ake hay avhile-thiessia slifiies idea, should be set up, as has been sug- pes gested, at) Manch one may well ) Gayboy is well prepared against rejoice to have both these conceptions ull eventualities?" be pate: of Lincoln on show in England. Both “Yes: he’s even removed some of i / of them will always be interesting, the il bins to enlarge ine cellar.” a more so for the controversy about them Perhaps, presently, both of them will Vd he beaten, for Lincoln is immortal, and sculptors will keep on trying to imagine f ys Herbert S and portray the flesh and bones in arey ton which his deathless spirit moved, and the art-defying garb in which his per- London zy ton ishable part went clad. rbert Tareyton London naking Mixture Changed ' Falk Tobacco Co 1102 Broadway, NewYork, VY/ILLIS: Do you think the ate war ng to have a big effect on 'Y our Best Asset ay aa Yes, indeed. Four years ago our high school was teaching graphic algebra and plane geometry Hickpocket (sith stolen purse): Cuticura Soap “And now?” ish NOTHIN? iF coe be 4 ; ‘ ins ¥ WHEN'L WOMEN EVER GET Aitoromeiats: Soap2s, Ointment 2& 4, Taleum 2. Now it is teaching photographic Samote cach free of ““Cutieare, Dept, By Bostor | algebra and aeroplane geometry comicbooks.com