Life, 1929-06-07 · page 46 of 48
Life — June 7, 1929 — page 46: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page combines advertising with reader correspondence. The top features a **Wrigley's gum advertisement** showing a newlywed couple with the slogan "After Every Meal—For Life," a common marketing pitch positioning the product as essential to daily life and dental health. Below is a **Clarence Darrow book advertisement** offering his collected works cheaply—appealing to "liberal" readers interested in his famous legal defenses and social commentary. The main content is a **letter to the editor** from E.I. Brown, a Canadian, responding to an earlier letter by G.W. Whitaker (also Canadian) who apparently made disparaging comments about Americans. Brown defends Americans and criticizes Whitaker as a narrow-minded, snobbish English expatriate—the type who complained about Canada's immigration and looked down on locals. Brown's sarcastic closing reference to a Pharisee suggests Whitaker's self-righteousness. The cartoon below shows a man and dog outside a new house, humorously capturing domestic adjustment struggles.
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Taste the Juice of Real Mint Leaves affords just that taste of mint we all like after meals and after smoking. It whitens teeth — sweetens breath — aids digestion and calms the nerves. sure sWRIGLEY'S He denounces people’s pet notions and makes them like it! $ Astounding bargain! Best Liberal Reading 1,157 pages, almost 2 pounds, 300,000 words Works of Clarence DARROW 18 Sections—27 Titles 7 Worth $3 Lee tere ened Arg jo All For $1 Welt, Wikeman dole, Merl font sand 8 andeak post anyw! “ls o HALDE MAN-JULIUS PUBLICATIONS I just can't get used to that new house we Dept. D-1 Girard, Kansas moved into!’ Life Publishing Company, 598 Madison Avenue, New York City. Dear Lire: I have just read with amazement the letter of G. W. Whitaker of To- ronto published in your last issue. [t is scarcely likely that well-bred Ameri- cans will waste time in answering such disgusting ignorance as is dis- played by said Whitaker: but as a Canadian, resident in and enjoying the hospitality of this country, I just wish to apologize for the misfortune that Canada has such persons numbered among her population. G. W. Whitaker is evidently entirely provincial, and has travelled little. It would appear that his entire life has been extremely narrow and restricted, as is evidenced by the thoughts ex- pressed in his letter. The surpassing ignorance displayed also, in criticizing Count Felix Von Luckner, who is probably the outstanding “good sport” of the war, whether of Germans or Allies, is worthy of note. Mr. Whitaker is profuse in his thanks to his Maker that he is a Ca- nadian with true English blood in his veins, and not a mongrel such as he suggests most Americans are. True Canadians know the type only too well. We had a plague of them around 1910 and until the war stopped a lot of immigration. It is the type of Englishman who can find nothing right anywhere except in merrie old England, and who is always wanting to show his friends how they do things “over ‘ome.” The situation got so bad in Canada around 1912 that it was no uncommon thing to see ad- vertisements reading “Men wanted— No English need apply.” Mr. Whit- aker’s thanks to God that he is not as other men bring to mind a certain Pharisee mentioned in the New Testa- ment. Those who know England and the English do not need to be told that the G. W. Whitaker type is only a small proportion of the population of any country, (and you can interpret “small” any way you please.) I would like to suggest in conclu- sion that G. W. Whitaker loosen up and spend a couple of dollars and treat himself to the story of Count Von Luckner, and find out what he really did in the war. Mr. Whitaker in reading this might get some en lightenment as to what a real man is. E. I. Brown. Tue Panton Passe Co, Cuvaan® comicbooks.com