Life, 1915-09-16 · page 10 of 48
Life — September 16, 1915 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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This satirical cartoon depicts multiple small dogs destroying a bedroom—overturning furniture, scattering items, and creating chaos. The image is labeled "THE VANDALS." The accompanying text discusses the Friends of Peace organization and their concerns about war powers. John Birsten Walker, chairman of the National Convention Committee, warns President Wilson that the Constitution granted war-making power to Congress, not the President alone, arguing this represents an unconstitutional assumption of power. The "vandals" metaphor appears to criticize those perceived as recklessly destructive to constitutional governance—likely referring to pro-war advocates or government overreach during the World War I era. The dogs' mindless destruction parallels the text's warning about constitutional violations.
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Friends of Peace Scared Off Fy 1E Friends of program that vention in Chicago, are not doing very well. Like most of the peace movements, theirs has been found to have pro-German dissimulations The labor men and politicians have been shying at it. Mr. Gompers has de- nounced it; Mr. Golden, of the Textile Workers, has resigned from its Labor Committee; John Sullivan, a labor leader, has denied that he is connected with it. But Mr. John Brisben Walker, chairman of its National Convention Committee, sticks to his guns, and warns President Wilson that the Con- stitution committed the war-making power solely to Congress, and that “the issue of manifestoes which put the country in a position of being obliged to declare war . . . are direct assumptions of the kingly power so with a a con- Peace, includes THE VANDALS distinctly forbidden in the Constitu- tion, All action calculated to involve us in war belongs exclusively, Mr. Walker thinks, to Congress. The proper thing to do, then, when possibilities of war begin to multiply is to call Congress and let the rest of the government go into retreat. The more one reads Mr. Walker the less one wonders that responsible citi- zens, however pacific, are proceeding toward the exits of his peace organi- zation. Longer Than Ever Before The Council of Governors here next week will be entertained by Secretary Daniels aboard the battle- ship Wyoming on August 25. ew York paper, THEY were entertained, doubsless planned, but what, oh what did the Governor of North Carolina say to the Governor of South Carolina at Josephus’s luncheon! Interval HE twenty-year-old daughter of the president of one bank, direc- tor of two others and a railroad or two stood before her dressing table in a brown study. Meanwhile—— Three men, each one of whom wanted to make a loan of a hundred thousand dollars, paced the floor. Her father sat inwardly fuming in the auto while a hundred business let- ters remained unread. Twenty clerks paused until the work of a day could be given out. Six cylinders, accomplishing nothing, buzzed on. Four servants, leaving their morn- ing’s routine, rushed aimlessly about. And the girl called: “ Oh, papa, it isn’t my fault. I cannot find my gloves.” 'HE poor we have always with us. And we can always go to them when we are tired of the rich. comicbooks.com