Life Magazine – February 16, 1911 (# 1477) – Socialists

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Cover : High rise steel worker waving his hat to a woman hanging laundry on a nearby rooftop, art by William Balfour-Ker

– SOCIALIST’S NUMBER.
– Full page color ad for Pierce Arrow Motor cars, art by John E. Sheridan, People standing up in car looking at airplanes, “The Pierce-Arrow at the Aviation Meet.”
– Full page black and white ads for White Company (What the White Gasoline Car costs to run), Packard Motor Car Company (1911 Packard Thirty Close-Coupled, Ask the man who owns one), Cunningham automobiles (the most conspicuous car in the high price division), Abbott Motor Company (built for permanence).
– What is the Imaginary Life?, humorous piece by TLM.
– Humorous half page art by A. B. Walker, “The leisure class if birds of a feather DID flock together,” bums hanging out with idle rich folks.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Arthur Young (Biblical law as interpreted by employers of child-labor), Doane Powell (On with the Dance, tired working man looking down at little rich people dancing around his feet), Harrison Cady (Why not a special speedway for the joy riders).
– The Boy Grafters : a new organization, which will fit our boys for public life, art and text by William H. Walker.
– Two page centerspread art by William Balfour-Ker, “King Canute forbids the rising of the tide,” working class rising up over rich folks.
– Some current events include : Disco Throop of the schooner “We’re Here”; Tariff on most fish; Gloucestermen; President’s reciprocity treaty with Canada; Withdrawal of charges that the Standard Oil Company had made and sold to candy makers glucose containing sulphites, which were poisonous to children and other consumers of candy.
– And much, much more.