Life — May 15, 1919 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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# Analysis This page is **primarily a Warner Fountain Shaving Brush advertisement** (left side), not political satire. The ad shows a mechanical shaving brush with a screw-cap that dispenses cream through rubber tubes into the bristles—a product innovation marketed as convenient and time-saving. The right side contains an article titled **"Self-Government Experts Needed,"** where Governor Harrison argues that certain nations (Ireland, Russia, Mexico, Italy, Japan, Germany) lack capacity for self-government and suggests experts should be employed to guide them. The accompanying cartoon depicts rabbits causing property damage, captioned "Another Labor Dispute." The satire here appears to mock Harrison's paternalistic view by implying that even "civilized" nations have labor problems, undermining his hierarchical claims about governance capacity.