Life, 1914-08-27 · page 13 of 44
Life — August 27, 1914 — page 13: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three distinct pieces of WWI-era satire: **"Our War-bound Teachers"** discusses how American schoolteachers are being deployed to military service, leaving schools "demoralizes." The piece ironically notes teachers will gain valuable experience witnessing war's "drawbacks" before returning to teach children. **"The Man Who Bought on Margin"** (lower left cartoon) depicts financial ruin—a man who purchased stocks using borrowed money facing destitution when the market crashed. **"Business Opportunity"** sarcastically advertises seashore land schemes exploiting wartime shortages and public desperation. **"Blessings of War"** mocks how curtailed public events (fewer banquets, speeches) are presented as societal benefits. The beach scene (top right) with the caption about uncles and a "pneumatic stummick" appears to be unrelated humor about mistaken identity.
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*jEAlR EVES Our War-bound Teachers “THREE lines in a newspaper say: The school system of Hackensack is demoralized by the war, as the principal and three of the teachers are marooned in forcign ports. So it seems to be with most of the cities in these States. The school systems of most of them must be demoralized like Hackensack’s. We read of mobilization in Europe being embarrassed by the need of turning out for platoons and companies of American school-teachers, and we read of the reciprocal embarrassments of the teachers because mobilization has got in their way. Heaven send they may all be safe at home again when the umpire in September cries, “ Teach School!” And they will have something new to teach, won't they? They will have seen the edge, at least, of war, and had experience of its drawbacks. A mighty instructive lesson, that; and it is most interesting that so large a proportion of the Americans who are on the premises where it is being taught should be persons whose profession it is to teach our young idea to shoot. They are all in school, our traveling teachers are, in the greatest school that has been kept in this world for a hundred years at least. They will learn its lessons and bring them home. THE MAN WHO BOUGHT ON MARGIN “ coop-BYE!” WHICH IS YOUR UNCLE? TIE THIN ONE NO, THE ONE WITH TIE PNEUMAT Business Opportunity EASY money., Get our list. Lots of profits to be made by grabbing up desirable bits of seashore. People must have access to the sea in summer. Willing to pay any price. Very little capital necessary. All you have to do is to put up a few opaque fences and hire some one to stand at the gate and take in the money. Authorities are sympathetic, Absolute protection from laws. Don't delay. Opportunities to make money out of the necessities of the masses are growing scarcer all the time. Act now. A postal will bring full details. Address Marbleheart & Callous, Brokers and Busters, 41144 Fiscal Avenue, Local. Blessings of War GURTAEMEND of public banquets, after-dinner speeches. Hence fewer EPORTER: You sent me to interview General Lead- enhail about the war, but he says the President has forbidden military men from expressing their opinions, Manactne Eprtor: Didn't he give you any opinion at all? “Nothing but vague generalities.” “Well, write them over into a leading editorial.”