Life, 1915-09-09 · page 37 of 44
Life — September 9, 1915 — page 37: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
The left column presents an anti-war editorial cartoon titled "See the Warriors." Using a question-and-answer format, it satirizes the disconnect between decision-makers and soldiers: politicians, war profiteers (ammunition makers), and media figures (editors, yellow journalists) send young men to fight and die, yet refuse to fight themselves. The cartoon's point is biting—these leaders claim war serves "the good of the country" while the actual warriors have "nothing to say about it" and would refuse if given choice. It's a sharp critique of how power structures sacrifice ordinary people for profit and glory without personal consequence. The right side is a tobacco advertisement for Velvet brand pipe tobacco, featuring a bearded man and folksy copy about Kentucky Burley leaf and patient aging—completely incongruous with the anti-war message beside it, reflecting early 20th-century magazine advertising practices.
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See the Warriors EE the Warriors marching off to war. What will the Warriors do when they get to the war? The Warriors will shoot other War- riors, and they will be shot them- selves. Do the Warriors like to shoot other Warriors and be shot themselves? Oh, no. They do not like it at all. Then why do they do it? They do it because they are told to do it. But who decide on such matters? The Politicians and the War Lords and the Ammunition Makers and the Editors and the Yellow Journalists and the Lead- ing Citizens, And what is their reason for sending the Warriors off to shoot and be shot? It is all supposed to be for the good HE quickest way of the country to get down stairs And do the Politicians and the War . 4 Lords and the Ammunition Makers and is to jump out of the Editors and the Yellow Journalists . ‘ and the Leading Citizens send themselves the window. But off to be shot and to shoot others? kin’ h 1 | They do not. They consider it for : makin haste slowly the best interests of the country that they Mh wy Wack oie wee | pays sometimes, especially in curin’ tobacco. benefits are to accrue through the dying of the Warriors. : | Nowhar else on earth i is thar such pipe tobacco grown And the Warriors themselves have as the Burley we grow in ole Kaintuck. Thar’s a mildness nothing to say about it. Is that it? ; h b Burl f Nothing whatsoever. That wouldn't do | an’ richness about our Burley, a fragrance an’ aroma no at all, for then they might refuse to fight other tobacco has. and die, and then the country couldn't be done good to in the way that the Politi- | ! cians and the War Lords and the Ammu- But they’ fe "way down deep! nition Makers and the Editors and the 4 To bring ’em out to the full, we just use Nature’s own Yellow Journalists and the Leading Citizens could thoroughly enjoy it. | way—patient ageing. You ought to see the care used in selectin’ only the best of the Burley leaf for VELVET. Then, that tobacco has got to age not less than 2 years, mellowin’ and maturin’ all the time, to bring out the best that’s in it. That’s VELVET, The Smoothest Smokin’ Tobacco— with its aged-in-the-wood mel- lowness. An’ that's why VELVET don’t bite. The rawness is aged out of it. : | Cicmerain aialty died on grain qiialit Penamo-Pacifc Internetionol Exposition’s highest preserve and brloe oat the euard—The Grend Bice har f been plea beet or that | VET ote tethaolate Ven qualie NELVEL “tors aeality. tow it Tato rn! Bates Liggalte Myers Tabacco Cx GEO. A. DICKEL & CO. Disillrs Nashville, Tenn. tn comicbooks.com