Life, 1915-04-08 · page 18 of 44
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**Top Cartoons - "A Straw Vote":** The left cartoon shows women gathered before two "FOR MAYOR" posters, illustrating a humorous take on women's suffrage and voting rights. The right cartoon depicts a fashionable woman with a birdcage, labeled "A STRAW VOTE"—a pun suggesting women voters are frivolous or easily swayed, like straw blowing in the wind. **"To Be Consistent":** This satirical article mocks the idea of religious/cultural exclusion. After noting Jewish objections to mandatory Bible-reading in schools (and earlier protests against Shakespeare's *Merchant of Venice*), the author sarcastically proposes that other groups should logically exclude *their* unwanted cultures too—Italians banning non-Verdi music, Irish excluding non-Irish writers, etc. The joke: only Americans would have nothing left to claim, making them the "despised" group. It's anti-censorship satire attacking identity-based cultural gatekeeping. **"Probably Guilty":** Discusses accusations against Harvard President Lowell for allegedly favoring German lecturers while inviting professors from Allied nations, and for supporting continued arms sales to the Allies during WWI. The tone is skeptical of the charges.
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FOR MAYOR | e oom Prue 690! To Be Consistent T appears that the reading of the Bible in our public schools is offensive to our Jewish brethren, who have protested against a pro- posed law making it compulsory. Some time ago they made war aga “ Merchant of Veni If they succeed in keeping the Bible out of our schools, they will at least have made a beginning nst the process of learning any literature at all. The Italians can insist on having no other music but Verdi's, the Irish nothing but Dean Swift, Goldsmith and Bernard Shaw, the English can bar out the German classics, ‘and the Germans everything Eng- lish, Spaniards will naturally stand for the omission of all refer- ence either to the Philippines or the Spanish-American War. The only people who will have no voice in this universal taboo will, of course, be the despised Americans. A STRAW VOTE “PLEASURE LIES IN THE PURSUIT THE DESIRED OBJECT AND NOT IN GAINING IT Probably Guilty R. EDWARD MEYER, re- cently a lecturer at Harvard, accuses the president and faculty of that university of favoring the ations to Germans to lecture, but invited professors from Lou- vain, France and Japan. Also he ays President Lowell joined in 4 petition to President Wilson not to stop the trade in arms with the Allies. The case has not yet gone to any competent jury, but it is sus- pected that these Harvard parties are guilty as alle ANY persons think it would he better if the pews in church were more comfortable for dozing. They go on the theory that it is more desirable to have a somnolent attendant than a wide- awake absentee. comichooks.c