Life, 1916-04-13 · page 8 of 46
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**Main Article & Cartoon (Top):** The article "If Only Dr. Eliot Were Younger!" critiques President Eliot as a presidential candidate, noting his age (eighty-two) as a liability. The accompanying cartoon shows an elderly man at a desk with a calendar marked "April 1908" and "February 1916," captioned "Forget the Sysstemma [sic]." This satirizes concerns about Eliot's advanced age for high office—the joke being that even the Pope typically appoints older men, so why not accept an elderly president? The visual emphasizes his physical decline through exaggeration. **"Legal Joke" & Other Content:** Below are brief humorous anecdotes and a multi-panel comic strip titled "The Spring Rush" depicting Cupid's romantic engagement activities. The page blends political satire with general humor typical of early-20th-century Life magazine's format.
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688 “LIFE™ If Only Dr. Eliot Were Younger! fc ee - 2 A ‘ OTHING saves President Eliot from being drafted to be a presi- a dential candidate except the fact that he is about twenty-five years beyond the usual presidential age. Everybody knows what he stands for. He has made no secret of it The pro-Germans don't like his views a little bit, but there is a large company in this country who find their sentiments admirably expressed by him, He was cighty-two the other day. One reason why he is so good and speaks with so much ea i force is that he is old enough to have acquired sense. Ay ot the bane, Must it always be that a man can peo 7) only be President while he is still too rs young to know enough for that em- ployment? Something wrong about that! The Roman Catholic Church, a very astute organization, almost always picks an old man to be Pope. Legal Joke Charles W. Morse has purchased four freight steamers. —Newspaper item. FEBRUARY 1916 HIS was the gentleman who, a few years ago, was dying in the Federal prison at Atlanta, and, upon the state- ment of a physician, was pardoned by President Taft because he had only a few more weeks to live, UNDAY - SCHOOL TEACHER (reading the story of Ananias and Sapphira) : “ And the young men arose, wound him up, and carried him out, and——"” Tome (interrupting): What was the use of winding him up when they couldn't set him going again? 1Y HAND ISN’T AS FIRM AS IT USED TO BE Patriotic Sentiments . : “T)O you pay an income tax?” eres ee af A “Yes; and I believe in it, and MOE To OROTA F i 3), am struggling hard to get my income up to the point where I shall be per- mitted to pay a surtax.” “DID you enjoy the opening poem, ‘The Book,’ in Dasher’s new volume of verse libre?” “Was that a poem? I thought it THE SPRING RUSH was the table of contents.” comicbooks.com