Life, 1917-01-11 · page 11 of 38
Life — January 11, 1917 — page 11: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
The main cartoon, titled "Great Americans," depicts **Mrs. J. Hooper Ruff, whose husband has refused to be responsible for her debts**. The illustration shows a woman in an elegant coat surrounded by soldiers, apparently being forcibly separated from civilians. This satirizes Belgian military conduct during WWI—the accompanying text references Cardinal Mercier's protest against German soldiers forcibly removing Belgian civilians (particularly young people) into "freight cars" for deportation to forced labor. The cartoon's irony: while atrocities occur in Belgium, an American woman's marital financial troubles are deemed equally noteworthy as "great American" problems. The page also contains unrelated pet-care advice and brief comedic sketches about film production.
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cS Le %& See GREAT AMERICANS MRS. J. HOOPER RUPP, WHOSE HUSBAND HAS REFUSED TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR HER DEBTS To Those About to Become Pet Owners Prospectus what your pet is, we guarantee to teach you how to bring him up. Subscribe to monthly letters on Pekingese and Chow nursing. Have youa pet alligator? We tell you how to raise him intelligently. Have you a friskychameleon? We show N° > matter our you how to make him change color properly. Some of our subjects this month are: “How to Bathe a Great Dane,” “Silk Sweaters for Hairless Pups and How to Make Them,” “ One Hundred Selected Menus for a Toy Spaniel.” Remember that the future of our country depends upon your ex- pert knowledge of these matters. Ad- dress Pet Correspondence Bureau, etc. —=— BELGIUM Groups of soldiers introduced them- selves forcibly in the homes of these peo- ple, tearing the young people out of the arms of their parents, the husband from his wife, the father from his childre at the point of the bayonet they blo the entrances to the homes, preventing wives and mothers from rushing out to say a last farewell to them; they align the captives of forty or fifty ibly into freight cars; under pressure, and as soon asa trainload is ready, an officer gives the signal and they depart. Thus another thousand Belgians reduced to slavery, without previous trial, con- demned to the penalty which comes next in cruelty to the death penalty— deportation * * * * Extract from Cardinal Mercier's protest. Gains Not Ill-Gotten R. HILLIS calls our profits on munitions of war “ill-gotten gains.” So they are often called. But the supplies sent have done more good than anything ever shipped out of this country, and if there had been no profit on them this would have been the only country in the world in which makers of ammunition were not making money by their work. LTON: drinks in his dreams. Gatton: <A case of celebration. Boozer says he even unconscious THE TRIALS OF A MOVIE STAR Camera Man: 'M sorry, JACK, BUT WE'LL HAVE TO DO THAT BUSINESS OVER WHERE YOU FALL OFF THE ROOF INTO THE RAIN BARREL AND ARE RUN OVER BY THE STEAM-ROLLER, MY FILM GAVE OUT.