Life, 1916-02-17 · page 9 of 52
Life — February 17, 1916 — page 9: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
**"The Peace Conference After the Elopement"** (top cartoon): Shows what appears to be a domestic dispute in formal setting—a couple seems to have run away together, disrupting negotiations between two suited gentlemen. The satire likely comments on how personal scandal disrupts serious diplomatic efforts, suggesting peace conferences can be derailed by human drama. **"Favoritism"** (bottom cartoon): Depicts three large figures labeled "DEBT," "EXTRAVAGANCE," and "HIGH COST OF LIVING," each pulling a small child in different directions. This criticizes government favoritism toward certain economic problems while neglecting others, or how competing financial burdens pull citizens apart. The accompanying text discusses Jewish internationalism and service to nations, appearing unrelated to the cartoons.
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purpose. We have had the stone age, the age of metals, the ethnical age, and the time is soon approaching when we are to have the inter-ethnic, the international age. It is for service in this field, to THE PEACE CONFERENCE AFTER THE ELOPEMENT help bring this about, that the Jew of today has been evolved. That is an interesting idea, and one not confined to Jews. We have heard a Protestant clergyman say very much the same thing. Jews are usually FAVORITISM faithful to the country they live in, but their chief interest is in Jews, and next to that, in the human race. altogether they are probably the best internationalists. The next best are, probably, the English, who get on passably with all peoples, so that all kinds of folk live in fair contentment in English settlements. Precisely how the Jews are to go to work to bring on the international is not clear yet, but the job is worth do- Take them “ing. Perhaps they are to be the buffer race, the neutral, to get between the others at the point of contact. In New York, at this moment, they probably hold the balance of political power. “Israel's mission,” s: ys the Jew above quoted, “is service to the na " The nations are a bit shy of Jewish service, but certainly the: be served. E have need to S. Martin,