Life, 1916-02-03 · page 35 of 48
Life — February 3, 1916 — page 35: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page combines political satire with advertisements, typical of Life magazine's format. **"You Know Me!" Poem**: A satirical self-portrait attributed to Theodore Roosevelt by cartoonist Louis Schneider. It mocks Roosevelt's well-known hyperactivity, verbosity, and constant need to dominate public discourse—comparing himself to restless ocean tides, Niagara Falls, printing presses, and perpetual motion. The joke is Roosevelt's inability to recognize his own excess; he admits overdoing things but frames it as powerful energy rather than problematic behavior. **Navy Joke**: References Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels's claim about torpedo production (300 annually), questioning whether this rate could sustain even half an hour of naval combat—satirizing military preparedness concerns, likely WWI-era anxieties. **Advertisements**: Tiffany & Co. jewelry and White Rose glycerine soap ads are standard period marketing. **Bottom Cartoon**: Labeled "German-American," depicts baseball play—possibly commentary on German-American identity during WWI tensions, though the exact reference remains unclear.
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You Know Me! ‘OU know who J am! I am as restless as the tides of the ocean, Lam as full of energy as Niagara. I am as saturated with words as a dictionary. I am as ready to run them off as is a printing-press. I am as great in the variety of my subjects as is the phonograph. I am as eager and ready as a seismo- graph in my desire to register and mag- nify even the most distant public tremor I am as thunder in my follow-up of a chosen topic at the psychological mo- ment. I am a maker of psychological mo- ments. Iam as conventionally teeming with punches as a moving-picture serial. I am perpetual motion in all of its manifestations incarnate. I am so aware that I have overdone many things that, for fear of myself, I have left a great many things un- (der) done. lam, even in my comparatively quiet momen! full of potentialities as an enemy-infested ammunition factory. I am Theodore Roosevelt. Louis Schneider. Secretary Daniels is gratified that the government's torpedo output is now three hundred per annum, but what would the navy do after the first half hour of the battle? —Boston Transcript. wr not use shells, as heretofore? No, 4711 White Rose Glycerine Send a 2 stamp for sample cake of N> GIL Waite Rose Gixcerine Soap, or Ite tn stamps for a sampie cabs of the tap, a tam- Be bottle of No. Ot Bath Salts and a tample Dottie of No. 4711 Ean de Cologne. MULHENS & KROPFF Dept. L., 25 West 45th St., New York City TIFFANY & CO. JEWELRY AND SILVERWARE OF QUALITY, VALUE AND VARIETY PURCHASES MAY BE MADE BY MAIL FIFTH AVENUE & 37" STREET New York GERMAN-AMERICAN comicbooks.com