Life — December 11, 1913 — page 8: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 1060 The main illustration depicts a skeletal soldier sitting on a grave, overlooking an industrial landscape with factories and troops—a WWI commentary on mechanized warfare's human cost, captioned "Coming! (As Seen Through Wall Street Eyes)." The article "May We Be Spared This?" criticizes financial writers for speculative, sensationalist reporting about wartime waste and inefficiency. It accuses them of drawing unwarranted conclusions and fashioning "sophisticated circumlocutions" to fill space with grandiloquent language—essentially mocking financial journalism's tendency toward verbose, unjustified doom-saying. A secondary piece humorously notes President Roosevelt's aide Dr. Wilson doesn't draw attention despite working hard, contrasting him with more ostentatious colleagues.