Life, 1924-06-05 · page 40 of 48
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This page satirizes American attitudes toward education and self-made success. The main article mocks Charles J. Dumbell, who failed his college entrance exam but now publishes articles attacking college education's value—a hypocritical position Life ridicules. The "College Personals" section extends this critique: it highlights how self-made businessmen without formal education receive honorary degrees and praise (George Doitt becomes bank president despite attending college merely for credentials), while genuinely educated people struggle. The satire suggests American society irrationally celebrates rough-diamond millionaires who didn't finish grammar school, while undervaluing actual education. The cartoon showing a man struggling with golf and bridge terminology reinforces the theme: even wealthy, successful men lack cultured refinement. The page also includes advertisements (Nesser Golf Bags, Emades products, dandruff solution), reflecting Life's commercial nature, but the editorial content clearly critiques American anti-intellectualism and the paradoxical veneration of uneducated business success.
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36 LIFE College Personals Mr. Bradford (1 couso Shinn to sac e | succeeded in passing his ance exam- Is Right! inations, has been flattering his vanity recently by publishing virulent articles in his home town paper on the general But the best advertisements: futility of a college education, of this tobacco are vo . Four honorary degrees recently con- never written | ferred on self-made rough-diamond mil — lionaires who didn't bother to finish From Indianapolis, Mr. R. 0. Bradford | &fammar school have been instrumen- bursts into song: tal in adding to the endowment fund of The Pipe of Inspiration Neurich College I can see him now a-sitting at the desk c 1 oved so wel George Doitt, who went through col hard at it, AL lege for the purpose of getting an edu baiiene ion which would enable him to be- or father was come a bank president, has just been clected president of the st National Bank of his home town. silence, \dvertising man. First he'd * papers, till his The Sticker Medal for not missit ae an class reunion during the fifty years { Whea you > ean since graduation has been presented to y. Ve y sir! W's 3 | Nesser,” you whipped by his father into. attending vei be bacco, and he college FHW. | te will brag i its he! its stunliness, and its convenie Certainly At Ma Jone: George, dear, I shall your soul, you've Gregory Antique, who had to be horse Dad was surely sold for Ask your Righto! I'm an ad- foods Uealer to show . and I've learned have to ask you again what the deatet pre Le tor Coll should do when East Wind bids a one . Clubs" is a belpful be 3 let you may have, no trump, and the next player makes recuest. Trek er the second hole in par. Ei recpunsinie Tor lots of geod Pa Joxe: It’s so obvious, my dear NES SERA COMEANY, you can do is move your Queen's ren aiph Otis Bradford It Luctusive Gol Bag Mi Ralph Otte’ Bradford Knight to Queen's Bishop's third : Mr. Bradford is quite right when he] square, and sink the eight ball in the writes that “Edgeworth is responsible for lots of good ad- vertising copy” for, as every writer Tue knows, there is in- spiration in a good | smoke, but the words | that fill this column 5 Edge- 4 ve $100 PER do not sell Edge WELIC Coad do more aly Ido sot worth. As a matter \ put io much over half time. Person- of fact, they aren't copy at all — they bse Sitosa A.“ copy nowaday ill corner pocket ultra-violet. college yell—Ray, ray, ray! them wit of our seen tak The adver ing that creates smokers is THI ie Frervten CO. 228 FyrFyer dp, Dayton, 0, broadcast from —— Jones to Smith a4 An Easy Easy Way to to Robinson by word of mouth. Remove Dandruff The best we can hope to do in this | If you want plenty of thick, beautiful, space is to get another Mr. Jones glossy, silky hair, do by all means get rid started. | ae 5 of dandruff, for it will starve your hair Even if your name isn’t Jones we'll tnd fuin it {€-you dos't be glad to send you free samples of The best way to get rid of dandruff is to Edgeworth if you'll send your aame and dissolve it. To do this, just apply a little address to sete rother Company Liquid Arvon at night before retiring; use eee st Stresty Richmond, Me enough to ae the scalp, and rub it in you care dd the name and a gently with the finger tips, dress of your regular tobacco deal By morning, most, if not all, of your we shall appreciate the courtesy. dandruff will be gone, and three or four aT jane px aeaccoe Mer panes If more applications shoold completely re- ye a t s yo ge . = : move every sign and trace of it. Edgeworth, Larus & Brother Company MOW) 00) YOU EEE YOUREABOR You will find, too, that all itching of the will gladly send you prepaid by parcel GOVERNMENT, JOHN scalp will stop, and your hair will look and posta goes orice cree carton ofany “HOW DO YOU LIKE YOUR BE- feel scrandred times better. You can get size h g Slice or Read = Squi r ; LABORED GOVERNMENT, SAM?’ Liquid Arvon at any drug store. A four- Rubbed for the same price you would ounce bottle is usually all that is needed. pay the jobber, ' The R. L. Watkins Ce., Cleveland, Ohio comicbooks.com