Life, 1921-06-16 · page 32 of 36
Life — June 16, 1921 — page 32: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and donor listings**, not political satire. The main content is a Bell System advertisement titled "The Advance of Understanding." It argues that the telephone represents human progress by connecting distant people and eliminating "petty jealousies, blindnesses and prejudices." The ad cites a Charles Dickens preface and claims 34 million daily conversations occur over Bell System lines. Below is a lengthy list of donors to "Life's Fresh Air Farm" (a charitable program providing country vacations to those in need), organized by name and location. Three smaller ads appear at bottom: Mayor's Cement, Parker Fountain Pen, and Motors. The satirical point, if any, is subtle—Life magazine may be gently mocking corporate claims about technology's moral benefits while simultaneously fundraising for charity. However, this reads primarily as a **house advertisement and donor acknowledgment** rather than pointed satire.
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rt are Brought together, to the nt, loartage ife Paki nd i te cent traction, tn time, of a host of be feos, indnessesand prjudlee, by which th vsti into af | _ oy fe From Charles Fickeick Poser. The Advance of Understanding Even romance of sixty brief years ago could not imagine the great advance heralded by the passing of the stage coach. The railway and telegraph were coming into their own; but the telephone had not been so much as dreamed about. Yet the wise men of that day saw the imperative need. They saw the value of every step which brought people into closer communication with each other. They knew this to be the one way to increase under- Dickens’ Preface to standing; and to eliminate the “host of petty jealousies, blind- nesses and prejudices, by which the Public alone have always been the sufferers. Then came the telephone. And with its coming time and distance are swept away and a hundred million people are made neighbors. Places far apart are brought together by 34,000,000 con- versations a day over the Bell System. “BELL SYSTEM” AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY AND ASSOCIATED COMPANIES Vor repairing bias, gtassw weersebanm, vases, books, Ui Keep thands, The reliable coment, famous since 1876. LIFE’S Fresh Air Farm (Continued from page 864.) {da Jeannette Burleigh, Pittsburgh . E. Watson, Fairmont, W. Va He L._Wood, Sioux City, Towa... Jane Conklin Ashcraft, Fairmont, W. Va. Mrs, Richard P, Joy, Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich. . Evelyn M Graham, Freeport, Til. Whitmer, Gosher, 5 "George R.’ Clegg, Youngstown, O. jend.” Detroit. : m. J. Gutekunst. Wphias 2222. irs. Lewis, St. Augustine, Fila. . T, Col je, Carbondale, Pa * Grace’ R. Van Cleve, Erie, Pa. Willis 'H. Kerr, Emporia, Jane Stuart Preston, Lewisburg, John H. Parrott, Roanoke, Va. Et, Madison, Wis. Jouert Bush, Chicago. ohn Peter Saul, Jr., Salem, Mrs, E, B. Ball, Muncie, Ind J. L. Collins, Knoxville, Iowa. Maurice, Lovina, Lulu and Akron, Ohio... se T. A, Weblan, Weston, W. Va. ‘ Mra. W. K. Fishburne, Pinopolis, 8. C:. Mrs. H. J. Woods, St. Louis. George M. Verity, Middletown, Ohio Arthur F. Wenige, Asheville, N. C. Harry Keller, Bellefonte, Pa. W. R. Eisenhower, Philadelphi Mrs, W. H. Greathead, McCon: Pa. “ J. Brooks Nichols, Philadelphia. I. H., Mount Pleasant, Pa. Marian Payley Buchanan, Pittsburgh. 1 y of Grace Osborne ny ; Alien, Gaylord, Va... . Barry, Buell, Va Michael Newland, Pittsburgh Mildred Nelson Page, University, Va... Mr. & Mrs. H. D. Koceland, Pittsburgh Robert, James and Catherine Hazlett, Wheeling, W. Va William P.' Dillard, Fort Scott, Kansas Cash. Salem, Ohio. ae Sophie G, Coxe, Drifton-Luzerne, Pa Robert V. Cram, Minneapolis, Minn... In memory of R!C, S., Burlington, Towa Mrs. Frank P. Warren, Emporia, Kan. Mrs. G. H. Selover, Minneapolis. Rarbara Mott, Kansas City, Mo. John Robert Manley, Omaha, Nebr. L. S, Harvey, Kansas City, Kansas. Robert Fulton Clarke, Ardmore, Pa. Mrs. S. W. Duggan, Knoxville, T 3 Edmund L. Benson, Jr., Richmond, Va. Reba S, Dechy, Philadedpbia. . : Ellen McA, Hickman, Augusta, Ga. The Pantlind Grand Children, Grand Rapids, Mich. . W. C. Hemphill, V corge R. Packard, Philadelphia M. R. Bean, Detroi . Mrs. P. V. Hill, Mrs. 3 David H. Atwater, Jr. Mrs. G. 3 Mrs. F, J. Jerome, Painsville, Obio. Robert W. Parsons, Summerville, Lyman C. Hill, Henrietta, Okla A. F. James, Milwaukee. ovost, Mansfeld, Skinner, B. Be” Saginaw. Mich. J. P. Murphy, Abbing, Min Howard N. Eavenson, Pittsburgh. Harry H. Cooke, Germantown, Pa. Mrs. Frank M. Graff, Blairsville, T. Charlton Henry, Philadelphia. Ashley Horne, Clayton, New York. Louise Robinson, Paris, Texas. Gregory Robinson. Paris, Texas. . Nelvin Haugen, Madison, S. Dak. Mary Bullock, Mason City, Towa L. Loomis, St. Dodge, Towa. : Mary Katherine Dutrow, Dayton, Ohio. Ethel E. Penniman, Kalamazoo, Mich. M, T. Hardy, Van Wert, Ohio. Mise J. Foster, Cincinnati Miller, Winnetka, Il. MB. Thatcher, Pucbloy Col Jobn il, Randall, Harrison, Maine. comicbooks.com