Life, 1912-10-10 · page 11 of 48
Life — October 10, 1912 — page 11: what you’re looking at
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The main cartoon depicts political campaigners riding atop a large globe labeled "MAKE WAY!" — showing politicians literally riding roughshod over the world during the Wilson campaign (likely referring to Woodrow Wilson's era or a contemporary political movement). The accompanying article criticizes the "Woodrow Wilson College Men's League" for classifying college graduates as "college men" engaged in partisan politics. The author argues this contradicts the independent thinking expected of educated citizens — they should vote as citizens, not as a bloc. A secondary cartoon satirizes military bureaucracy: an officer demands a subordinate's hat as a show of authority, illustrating absurd military hierarchy and deference to rank. The "Just Right" section addresses Christabel Pankhurst's exile in France, criticizing Britain for exiling a political figure rather than facing domestic criticism.
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“MAKE Way! he sound in character, and sound char- acter cannot be based on untruthful- ness. Nevertheless, untruthful men have been factors of immense impor- tance in human affairs, and even in progressive politics. -Bismarck deception : leon used it habitual- ly; but neither them was as ready with the hymn book as Mr. Roose- velt is. Leadership seems to depend more on brains and energy than on verac- ity. Marlborough was shamelessly fale and very successful, but he was a soldier. Gladstone came to be commonly charged with duplicity by Politics is a kind of war, and in war leges silent. Some good men seem to feel justified in be- used his opponents. *LIPE ing indulgent to inveracity in polities. Nevertheless, the great characters on whom the souls of men have rested have been truthful, truth-loving men; men who could afford to reveal their minds, and who, when they changed their minds, felt no need of denying their past opinions. Whether or not Mr. Roosevelt is justly chargeable with untruthfulness, it is a fact that there is a very gen- eral distrust of the accuracy of his statements that undoubtedly affects his availability as the “leader of a great cause.” As the Springfield Repub- lican s “Looking over the career of Theodore Roosevelt men simply say, ‘ This man is not sound,’ and look elsewhere.” 1947 “College Men” in Politics NE of the active forces in the Wilson campaign is the Wood- row Wilson College Men's 1 Its cause is good; its work is perhaps it is hypercritical to disparage it in any way. Yet there are, presum- of col- ably, a good many grad g classified leges who obje for political They men, but as citizens think, or line up, as college me college vote as college Neither do they but purposes as men.” don't have Il the varieties of opinic persuasion. Tt is a good enough classification for a squad on a political marching pro- cession, but there, or thereabouts, it ends. Just Right HRISTABEL PANKHURST re- ports gleefully that she is in France, and has been there all the time the London police have been looking for he Congratulations to the London po- lice! Great Britain is expurgated of Christabel, who dare not come home, Lut lives in Paris, at the cost, pre- sumably, of her constituents Her relations with her country could hardly be on a better basis than that. OFFICER, LEMME GET ME HAT, WILL you?” “now, WINT AIN'T YOU SMART? 1¢ You AFTHER YOUR HAT you'b NOT COME BACK. NO, SIR! YOU WAIT HERE. YLL CO AFTHER THE WAT.” comicbooks.com