Life, 1914-09-03 · page 28 of 48
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**"Securities" editorial**: Satirizes stock market investments as paradoxically insecure despite their name. The piece mocks how paper securities are vulnerable to unpredictable factors—foreign leaders' whims, wealthy magnates' health problems, politicians' incompetence, and stock gamblers' speculation. **Left cartoon**: A tall man in formal dress (appears to be a wealthy investor or broker) towers over a small boy, captioned "SAW; I DON'T WANTA HEAR ABOUT HEAVEN, NEITHER—I WANT IT T' BE A SURPRISE." This likely satirizes how investors blindly avoid learning about their investments' true conditions, preferring ignorant optimism. **Right illustration**: Depicts a golf player, captioned about not shirking "hard work"—possibly mocking wealthy men's leisure activities as frivolous distractions from serious business matters. **"Sit Down, Everybody!"**: References World War I (the "great European war"), urging Americans to remain neutral spectators rather than get involved, treating the conflict like a baseball game. The page reflects pre-U.S. entry WWI anxieties about war, financial instability, and public distraction.
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396 Securities F all phenomena known to the civilized world securities are per- haps the most insecure. Why this should be so does not appear. It is indeed almost beyond belief that man should be so blunderous and so ine: act as to apply the word “ sccurity to bits of paper that are so easily affected for good or evil (one can never tell in advance) by the caprice of a foreign potentate, the moan of a rheumatic magnate, the piffle of a politician, the guesses of a stock gambler or the recommendations of a reformer. LE F K S DENIED Suffragists Here Will Net Raise Money for “ Cause" That Way —Philadelphia Ledger. Wwrat. no market? “THERE'S A PLAYFR FER YE, BILL—HE DON'T SHIKK NONE 0’ THE HARD WORK!” =| Algiers HOLD a spell of you upon my heart, Romantic daughter of the desert sands, The love and hate and heat of Africa; Your hiddea gardens, your gay, vi streets, Your misery and joy, your mounting steps, Your mighty, gleaming mosques, your balconies, Whence, from the latticed windows, faces peer Of Oriental loveliness; the flow Of your magnetic life; oh, mingling Of East and West, exotic, wondrous flower, The sapphire ocean laves to fuller bloom! Leolyn Louise Everett. Sit Down, Everybody! HE baseball organizations will have to put up war- bulletin boards to hold their crowds. The great con- test swallows all the lesser ones. What is going on in rope cannot but be sobering to all hands here. Intending strikers will do well to agree with their adversaries while so much business is so much disturbed. In the great European war-game we Americans occupy the bleachers. Sit down, everybody, and be quiet, so that we can see the game! Never mind the umpires. They have lost control. Watch the players! I its reply to the Servian Governmen: the Austrian Gov- ernment stated that one of its reasons for declaring war was because the Servian Governm-nt had offered, in its reply to their ultimatum, to submit the matters in dis- AW; I DON'T WANTA HEAR ABOUT HEAVEN, NEITHER—I pute to The Hague Tribunal. Why not accuse The Hague WANT IT T’ BE A SURPRISE” Tribunal of bringing on the war?