Life, 1914-11-05 · page 10 of 48
Life — November 5, 1914 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three distinct satirical pieces: 1. **"The Turkey Smokes on Every Board"** - A cartoon showing turkeys smoking at a fence, likely mocking excessive Thanksgiving consumption or war profiteering. 2. **"Let Us Give Moderate Thanks"** - An editorial arguing against excessive gratitude during wartime (context suggests WWI era based on references to Europe and Germany), asserting that true thankfulness requires genuine hardship, not comparative comfort. 3. **"Four-Footed Heroes of Belgium: Real Dogs of War"** - A cartoon of a dog pulling a cannon, referencing Belgium's actual use of dog-drawn artillery during WWI. 4. **"Easy Money" and "Where Edison Miscalculates"** - Brief commentaries on Secretary McAdoo's financial proposals and Edison's sleep predictions. The page reflects wartime satire questioning American prosperity and optimism amid global conflict.
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“THE TURKEY SMOKES ON EVERY BOARD” Let Us Give Moderate Thanks TH question as to whether we ought, as a people, to give thanks this year is one that calls for more than the usual amount of thought, admitting for the moment that thought still exists. It is generally assumed that the more cause there is for giving thanks, the more thanks should be given; but is this not a superficial view? Because we chance temporarily to be better off this year than our friends, the warring nations of Europe, ought we unduly to emphasize this fact by congratulating our- selves in pxans of superior thanksgiving? Not at all. The real time for thanksgiving is when one has little to be thankful for. Then one’s sense of thanksgiving is genuine and grounded in a proper humility. Our sense of benefits is due entirely to comparison, The millionaire is thankful because in material benefits he is better off than the majority. If everyone else were a millionaire he would scarcely know the difference. To be thankful, therefore, in excess merely means that we are unduly emphasizing the misery of others, Cruel Publicity E thing the Germans are up against is printers’ ink— especially newspapers. There were no newspapers to give any details about the proceedings of Attila and his merry Huns, but most of what the Germans do gets into print. It's hard on them. Very. -W, 2 ase es ee QL FOUR-FOOTED HEROES OF BELGIUM REAL DOCS OF WAR WIDENING THE BLACK STRIPE Easy Money Some of Mr. McAdoo's latest manifestoes have been particularly disquicting because they tended to foster demands for easy moncy, for cheap credit and plenty of it—New York Sun. Te! Sun does not refer to Secretary McAdoo’s mani- festo to Congress asking for immediate three-per- cent.-emergency-currency legislation. That being for the bankers, is to be considered in a separate category. The whole trouble comes when an unreasoning public gets to thinking that it, too, is entitled to easy money, cheap credit and plenty of it. That, of course, is absurd, and the public should quickly disabuse its mind of such fond, endearing hopes. Where Edison Miscalculates Epison keeps on declaring that future peoples will sleep less. If Thomas takes due notice of what is now going on in the world he must amend his forecast. The present prospect for future peoples is that there won’t be any. Their fathers will be killed years before they are thought of, and they will sleep the long, deep sleep of the unborn. The first condition of activity in this world is to be born. The second is to stay alive. Unless these preliminaries are observed it makes little difference whether sleep is over in four hours or extends to eight. comicbooks.com