Life, 1912-01-18 · page 11 of 44
Life — January 18, 1912 — page 11: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This cartoon depicts a conflict between **Carnegie** (labeled on the left, shown as a small figure being pulled) and what appears to be **militaristic European powers** (the large dark mass on the right, labeled with "ITALY," "TURKEY," and other nations). The cartoon illustrates **Carnegie's peace efforts being disrupted by European military aggression**—likely referencing Andrew Carnegie's famous peace advocacy work during a period of rising international tensions (pre-WWI era). The "interruption" suggests that Carnegie's pacifist initiatives and philanthropic ambitions for world peace are being thwarted by the aggressive military ambitions of European nations engaged in territorial conflicts and imperial expansion. The image satirizes the naive futility of individual peace efforts against powerful national militarism.
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CARNE SIE hh AN INTERRUPTION A Relict Remarried EWSPAPERS, like horses or elephants, are of no use except to persons who know how to handle them. To others they are an aggravation and expense. Mr. Wil- liam C. Reick, who has bought a controlling interest in the New York Sun, has had experience and success in handling newspapers, and is believed to understand them. Good luck to him, and to the Sun under his direction! An old newspaper like the Sun is so nearly a sentient creature, and has so definite an individuality, that when it changes hands its old friends look on with emotions not unlike those that obtrude when a widow marries again. One considers the age, temper, circumstances, habits and convictions of both parties, and in addition the impres- sions left on the lady’s mind by her former spouses. Mr. Laffan was in so many respects the heir to Mr. Dana that when the paper was sold to him it was as though the widow had married in the family. Until now the Sun has carried distinctly the impression of Mr. Dana’s mind and remarkable gifts for journalism. But Mr. Reick is a new man in the Sun office. He is not a new man, though, in New York newspapers; not a whirlwind from Missouri, nor an innovator from our American Gold Coast, and his Sun, we suppose, will still be the Sun we have known all a but stimulated doubtless by new leadership, and hopefuiler and happier, we all will trust, in its attitude toward life, Too Much Science ? A SPECIAL despatch to the New York Times tells us of a chemist who recently died of hydrophobia, hav ing been bitten by a dog on November 13. The same despatch says: The dog’s head was sent to Trenton for ex- amination, but no trace of rabies was found. Just one more case, then, of catching hydrophobia from a dog that never had it. Easier to scare a man to death’ than to cure him. Laboratory research is making wonderful strides. Modern D* FOSTER went to Gloucester all in a shower of rain. Having performed an operation without danger to him- self, he returned one thousand dollars better off, And naturally wanted to go there again. Mr. Cheese Mite: orvicer, CAN YOU TELL ME WHICH ONE OF THESE TUBES GOES TO HOROKEN? comicbooks.com