Life, 1924-05-29 · page 2 of 38
Life — May 29, 1924 — page 2: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily a **General Motors advertisement**, not satire. The left side features a portrait of an industrial worker with the headline "A family of 217,000," explaining that General Motors employs over 217,000 people across 36 cities in 24 countries, representing many thousands of families. The ad emphasizes interconnected industrial prosperity: GM's success depends on suppliers and workers, whose success depends on GM. The right side contains two separate editorial pieces: "The Confessions of a Diner-Out" and "Reciprocity"—both humorous personal essays unrelated to the GM advertisement. These appear to be typical Life magazine social commentary pieces, not political cartoons. This is essentially an **advertorial layout**, combining corporate messaging with unrelated satirical content.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
A family of 217,000 Tuere are more than 217,000 persons in the General Motors family. They include the workers in the factories, located in 36 cities; distributors and dealers in all parts of the world; and stockholders, living in 24 countries. These 217,000 represent many thousands of families. Many more thousands of families are employed by the concerns from which General Motors buys materials; and these concerns, in turn, buy from still others. Modern industry is a vast net of interwoven interests; the prosperity of each of us is depen- dent upon the prosperity of all the rest. GENERAL MOTORS Buick + Capniac + Cuevroter + Oaktanp Oxpsmosite + GMC Trucks The Confessions of a Diner-Out T iave been on tim ree in my life. On that i plate fir I hold + Reciprocity evil, sch comicbooks.co