Life, 1916-03-23 · page 13 of 52
Life — March 23, 1916 — page 13: what you’re looking at
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The cartoon illustrates "Life of Attila the Second, Chapter IX," depicting a military leader on horseback with an army, waving a flag labeled "GERMANY" as he prepares to invade France. The satire equates a contemporary political figure with Attila the Hun, history's destructive barbarian invader—a scathing comparison suggesting aggressive militarism. The accompanying text discusses automobile industry trusts and Standard Oil's dissolution, seemingly unrelated to the Attila cartoon. An advertisement seeks a "Secretary of Fads" for a new government department, satirizing bureaucratic expansion. The page appears to conflate military aggression with corporate monopolism as parallel threats to American society, typical of early 20th-century Life magazine's satirical approach to imperial ambitions and industrial consolidation.
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San We woe Re. ttc ~ BD. — Oko Cushing LIFE OF ATTILA THE SECOND. CHAPTER IX FOLLOWED BY HIS HIGHLY TRAINED ARMY HE STARTS OUT TO CIVILIZE FRANCE new submarines: I am nervous of those things. Went to thé dansant at Senator Grape’s. Heavy rain came up, so I countermanded fleet manoeuvres: I don’t want the men to catch cold. In the evening I delivered an address at the Naval Academy on “The Conversion of Battleships into Movie Theatres.” Question of building ten more dreadnaughts postponed until next week. Decided to add courses of instruction in cooking and needlework at the Naval Academy. Advertisement ANTED—A Secretary of Fads. The Fad Depart- ment is a new department of the government and the man at the head of it must know his business. He must have been married at least three times, and be the father of several intellectual daughters. He must be a man of wide sympathy, able to attend a continuous session of women's clubs delegates without complete mental exhaus- tion. He must be thoroughly familiar with birth control, eugenics, fancy skating, all the latest systems of dicts, Pragmatism, the fox-trot and neurosis. So It Has Tumed Out Wealth trebles in Standard Oil Company since trust suit.—Headline, But that is due to automobiles and war, not to the dis- solution decision of the court.—Springfield Republican, EFORE the Standard was dissolved an eminent lawyer aid one day: “If they break it up into its constituent companies every one of them will go in for itself to make more money and charge more for its product. The com- bination of those companies has been a restraint on them. Dissolve it and they will get more than ever.”