Life, 1915-12-30 · page 25 of 41
Life — December 30, 1915 — page 25: what you’re looking at
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This page contains WWI-era political satire criticizing American neutrality and pro-German sentiment. **"The Proper Treatment" cartoon** shows a man fishing, captioned as advice for a real-estate agent who promised winter enjoyment—dark humor about deception. **"Two of a Kind"** attacks the *Boston Transcript* for simultaneously claiming America lost its honor by not aiding France/Belgium while reporting Brand Whitlock (U.S. diplomat to Belgium) was "kicked out" by Germans. The satire exposes the paper's contradictory, sensationalized reporting and implies editorial incompetence. **"How About the Typhus?"** mocks American doctors who worked in Serbia, suggesting their sanitization efforts merely enabled German military operations—criticism of humanitarian work serving hostile powers. **"To-morrow's News"** uses dark prophecy: German-Americans destroying munitions factories and theaters, suggesting the author fears internal sabotage and German-American disloyalty during the war. **Other quips** mock King Constantine of Greece's rumored German sympathies and pro-American/British sentiment. The overall message: America must recognize the German threat and abandon neutrality.
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Ww \ ~ My CORNG wy NED THE PROPER TREATMENT FOR THE AGENT WHO TOLD YOU LAST SUMMER THAT YOU WOULD ENJOY YOUR NEW PLACE MUCH MORE IN THE WINTER TIME. Two of a Kind N the eve of Thanksgiving the Boston Transcript found it pretty hard to be sincerely thankful for having lost our national honor, for having ignored our obligations to France and Lafayette, for having bent the craven knee and bowed the servile kead, for having forgotten the murdered children of the Lusitania, and_seen ten million Belgians and Armenians slaughtered without a protest. A few lines further on it announces that Brand Whitlock, kicked out of Bel- gium by a Prussian boot, arrives in New York to-day. The same line of information is back of both these disclosures. Neither of YY ws. ite them is true. Brand Whitlock was not kicked out of Belgium, and we have not lost our national honor, nor ig- nored our obligations to France, nor bent the craven knee, nor bowed the servile head. All that has happened is that the Transcript has hired in a new paragrapher who does not as yet know how to read the news. How About the Typhus? MERICAN doctors cleaned up typhus in Servia and made it safe for the German armies to go in there. Those who died in the work may be satisfied, but how do the survivors feel? 'O be ready to back yourself to your last cent, that is genius. 1285 To-morrow’s News TRE only munitions factory left in this country was blown up by the German-Americans yesterday after- noon. They were given a reception in the evening, as usual. This evening, the last play in which real actors appear on the stage will be given at the Broadway theatre, in which a temporary stage has been erected for this purpose. A bottle of whiskey, on view at the Metropolitan Museum, was crowds. seen by Factory fires in this vicinity yester- day burned up only about twenty-five hundred people—a splendid showing! Had To King Constantine has broken the silence.—Courier-Journal, ONSTANTINE will be recalled as the Grecian potentate German wife corrects his views with a hatpin. Probably he broke the silence to avoid a puncture. whose IRST AMERICAN CITIZE back from London? Seconp American Citizi “What steamer from?” : Just Yes. were you rescued A HARDY ANNUAL NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS comicbooks.com