Life, 1914-10-22 · page 16 of 44
Life — October 22, 1914 — page 16: what you’re looking at
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**Top Cartoon:** A street scene showing well-dressed people with umbrellas encountering a shabby man. The caption "There, but for the grace of God, go I" is a famous phrase expressing humility—suggesting the speaker could easily have suffered the same misfortune. The cartoon illustrates class disparity and the precariousness of social standing. **"Big Job for Germans":** This satirical article mocks German imperial ambitions during WWI. It notes that Germans comprise only ~130 million of earth's 1.6 billion people, yet have killed "only" 200,000 so far—sarcastically suggesting they have "quite a job ahead" to subjugate the rest of humanity through their "machinery of unprecedented destructive power." The satire highlights the absurdity and hubris of German domination aspirations. **Vaccination Section:** A brief anti-vaccination screed—reflecting early 20th-century vaccine skepticism among some parents who viewed vaccination as dangerous despite public health evidence. **Bottom Right:** A small golf cartoon labeled "Making a Poor Approach"—a golf term joke unrelated to the page's other content.
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Big Job for Germans 'HE estimated population of the earth is 1,623,300.000. One hun- dred and thirty millions are Germans, leaving nearly a billion and a half of non-German folks, all of whom object to German domination. Of these the Germans have as yet killed no more than two hundred thousand at the out- side, so that they have still got quite a job ahead to reduce the earth to subjection. They are a very method- ical and industrious people, and are undoubtedly working with great zeal “THERE, BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOD, GO 1” at their new employment, and using machinery of unprecedented destruc- tive power. But it looks as though they had undertaken rather tego much. UDGE not harshly those parents who meekly allow their little chil- dren to be vaccinated. _ It isn’t that they do not love their children; it is merely that they do not realize what an evil and dangerous thing vaccina- tion is. GOLF TERM MAKING A POOR APPROACH comicbooks.com