Life, 1915-05-13 · page 9 of 52
Life — May 13, 1915 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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This page contains two separate pieces: **Top cartoon**: Shows two figures standing on a ship labeled "Why do you argue over technicalities, Sam? Those might have been your ships if I hadn't been here." This appears to reference a naval or military dispute, with one figure seemingly preventing the other from claiming ships. Without clearer identifying marks or date context, the specific historical incident is unclear. **"Supergrasshoppers" article**: A satirical philosophical piece by E.O.J. arguing that grasshoppers could theoretically evolve into "supergrasshoppers" through constitutional change. It's absurdist humor mocking both evolutionary theory and the notion that self-improvement requires fundamental transformation. **"The People's Choice" portrait**: A caricatured face in an oval, likely political commentary, though the specific subject isn't identified on this page.
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“WHY DO YOU ARGUE OVER TECHNICALITIES, SAM? THOSE MIGHT HAVE BEEN YOUR SHIPS IF | HADN'T BEEN HERE” . Supergrasshoppers S it reasonable to suppose that the grasshopper race can reach a suit- able state of salvation without under- going acomplete constitutional change? Isn't it much more reasonable, after a careful analysis of the characteris- tics of grasshoppers as they now exist, to suppose that the only possible way for them to raise themselves above the muck of mediocrity is by develop- ing a race of supergrasshoppers? Can they fulfill their destiny in any other way? Of course it is impossible for the present race of grasshoppers, with their feeble comprehension and re- stricted imagination, to realize just what these supergrasshoppers will be like, but it ought to be clear to all that the ultimate mission of grasshoppers is something more than merely to come into the world, eat, sleep, jump about, sing a few harsh notes and die. Un- less they can reasonably look forward to a race of supergrasshoppers, the case is one for pessimists. E. 0. J. HERE are two main departments of philosophy; first, that which carefully expiains what everybody knows, and, second, that which e: plains what nobody knows or ever will know. Both departments are equally valueless. 841 The New Parnassus Or, Old Songs Readjusted to Modern Conditions, O NCE upon a midnight dreary, while I lame-ducked, weak and weary, suddenly I heard a trap song, something louder than before. “Frenzied fad!” I cried, upstarting, “Be that beast our sign of part- ing. Quit the hall beyond my chamber door. Newer fads were all a-plotting, tired of tango and fox-trotting.” Quoth the one-step, “Au Revoir.” At midnight in his guarded tent, the Turk lay dreaming of the hour when Greece, Italy, England, France, Russia, Japan and a few others also present should trem- ble, ete. When suddenly awakened by the alarm clock, while a voice called, “ All aboard for the Dar- danelles,” 1 remember, I ment house was born. The inside window where the janitor came pecking in at dawn, and hastening to the agent who informed the owner, who notified me that I was persona non grata all causing me to regret that I had been so inconsiderate. If a body meet a body coming through the grape juice, ed a body do anything about it ex- cept to notify the papers that, in accordance with instructions from the State Department the town has gone dry? remember the where I apart- THOOve “THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE” comicbooks.com