Life, 1928-08-16 · page 42 of 48
Life — August 16, 1928 — page 42: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. The dominant content is a Dentyne chewing gum ad featuring a smiling young man with the slogan "Chew Dentyne...and smile!" The ad promises that the gum "keeps teeth snowy white" and makes "smiles more attractive." The right column contains an article titled "Life's Camps for Needy Children," describing a charitable initiative where poor urban boys are sent to camps (specifically Pottersville Camp) for recreation, physical care, and moral development. The text celebrates how camping—swimming, maintaining hygiene, drinking milk, and patriotic activities—instills discipline and redirects boys away from gang life. The remaining space features travel advertisements (Mediterranean cruises, European tours) and hotel promotions, typical of 1920s Life magazine content aimed at affluent readers. There is **no political cartoon or social satire** on this page—it's a straightforward commercial and lifestyle publication.
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chee VENTYNE ..and smile/ J Your teeth are the sunshine of your smile— that’s why they’re always noticed. Be proud to show them in your smile. Keep teeth sparkling white. Dentyne is a delicious quality gum that makes smiles more attractive. It keeps teeth snowy white. Chew Dentyne . .. and smile. MEDITERRANEAN 4x, $600 up Transylvania" sailing Jan. 30 66 days, including Madeira, Téabat, Capital of Mo- SYRACUSE, N.Y. Lora triage pore VERY metropolitan service Is provided in this new and modern 600 Toom hotel. All. outside rooms—with Rates from, 3.00 up. Sample rooms 4.00 up. ste" | DOWERS HOTEL ROCHESTER, N.Y, fume Recently modernized and refurnished. Large rooms —new baths — lamps on beds. In heart of banking and business area. Noted for its hospitality and good food. 300 rooms from 2.25 up. Both under the direction of ROY P. BRAINARD pt, Italy. hotels, guides, motors, ete. Norway-Mediterranean Cruise, duty 2, 1929; $600 up FRANK C. CLARK, Times Bldg., N.Y. Tones the Stomach Improves the Appetite Aids Digestion Good Hotels a Sample of Bitters by mail 25 cts. Cc. W. ABBOTT & CO. Baltimore, Md. Lire’s Camps for Needy Children (Continued from page 11) thing. The way to stop the gangs is ever letting a boy era rg ‘be ae ster. Life doesn’t offer the small urchin of the slums a very wide range of vision, | He is apt to take on the color of his su. roundings and to ape the heroes of his | neighborhood. But no boy, in his hean, wants to be an outlaw. Offer him some thing better and watch him leap to grasp it. Watch him, at the Pottersville Camp, swimming in the old brook, forgetting in the cool, clean waters all the poison of his grim environment. Watch him making up his cot and sweeping out his sleeping tent and brush. ing his teeth and trying to win a prize for neatness. It gets to be a game, and a game that he carries back to the city with him, A game that goes in deeper than his skin, and that lasts. Watch him drinking his extra rations of rich milk and proudly trying to build jup his thin little body. Staunch young | bodies can fight temptation better than | weak ones, and you know that. Watch him, standing like a young | soldier, saluting the Stars and Stripes at | “Colors,” dreaming—Heaven only knows | what dreams—of ultimate heroism, To PARIS & ITALY Marseilles, Vienna, Trieste, Italy and Central Europe For a change—try this de luxe Southern Service to Paris, via Mat- seilles. World's fastest motor-ships to Paris, Vienna, Trieste, Rom the Riviera and Central Eu The last word in luxurious accom- modations and cuisine. Motor terry service—drive on here, drive off at destination—no crating or packing: surprisingly economical rates. Send for brochure of interiors, descrip- tions, rates, and sailing dates. Any Steamship Agent, or Direct to PHELPS & CO., General Agents Cosulich Line 19 Battery Place, New York Sail on World’s Fastest Motor Ships SATURNIA VULCANIA 24000 Gross Tons— 24000 Gross Tons— No Smote or Cinders No Smoke or Cinders PRESIDENTE sVILSON ‘Pamous for Her Superior comicbooks.com