Life, 1916-06-29 · page 14 of 41
Life — June 29, 1916 — page 14: what you’re looking at
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**Top cartoon:** Shows a man covered in mud after apparent domestic chaos. His wife says "Oh, George, do it all over again—you made baby laugh." The joke satirizes masculine incompetence at domestic tasks—the husband created mess but accidentally entertained the child, so she wants him to repeat the mishap. **Article "Let Any Man Be President":** Argues against restricting Supreme Court justices from running for office, advocating for merit-based leadership rather than arbitrary term limits. **"Going It Blind" article:** References J.L. Garvin discussing European uncertainty about post-WWI changes. The accompanying illustration shows a child frightened by a large, looming figure, metaphorically representing widespread anxiety about an unknowable future during a period of massive social upheaval.
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His Wife: oH, Georcr, DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN—YOU MADE BABY LAUGH Let Any Man Be President and as Often as Necessary HERE are always people who want to tinker the presi- dential term and make Presidents ineligible to re- election. Now there will be folks who will want a law prohibiting Justices of the United States Supreme Court from running for office. Out on all such efforts to be wiser than events! who accepts appointment to the United States Supreme Court virtually takes vows of perpetual respectability, but there is no sound reason for subjecting him to political emasculation. By all means leave him all his rights and lia- bilities as aman and a voter. To come back out of clois- tered seclusion into the boisterous world of politics will be hard enough at best. The natural impediments to it are enough, and will not be overcome except under stress of special circumstances. When the circumstances happen, let the natural consequences follow. Whether it is an anti- third-term amendment or one to shelf the top judges, let us always oppose all devices to deprive the country of the use of the man it needs whenever it needs him. A man Mars; 'Lt PUT HIM OUT OF HIS MISERY ONCE FOR ALL “sy! HOW THEY USED TO FRIGHTEN ME!” Going It Blind L. GARVIN says that fear is practically a vanished in- * fluence in Europe; that all kinds of people “hold death in more contempt than they did.” All the values of life, he says, are changed, and not even Europe knows yet the full import of the change. Doubtless not. Life was held cheap in the Middle Ages, which were times of great change—times like these. No one really knows yet what is going on in this world. We only sce the processes as they unfold. We cannot tell at all what human life is reaching for, or where it is coming out. The old order changes, but what the new order is to be is beyond any calculation. 1 the minds whose hands are on the steering wheels—the Kaiser's, the Pope's, M. Briand's, Sir Edward Grey’s, Mr. Wilson's, the Colonel's—are looking forward into the dark, and see only vague shapes moving incalculably. The world is going it blind, and no longer with much fear of consequences. It is riding a huge wave that will bring it presently ashore, but on what rocks or sands, or into what harbor, no mari- ner of all of them can tell. No wonder preparation parades are the fashion even here. The real wonder is that we go on as we do, eating and drinking, toiling and trading, going about all our ordi- nary affairs just as though we were not mites in a cheese that is rolling down hill, ES. M. comicbooks.com