Life, 1917-01-25 · page 4 of 40
Life — January 25, 1917 — page 4: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page promotes next week's *Life* magazine cover, titled "Where Wealth Accumulates." The illustration depicts a large barrel labeled "PORK" being held by a figure wearing American flag clothing, standing atop what appears to be stacked money or wealth. The satire critiques American economic conditions—likely post-WWI inflation or economic inequality. "Pork" references both literal food prices and "pork barrel" spending (wasteful government expenditure). The editorial teases readers by asking provocative questions about inflation's impact on everyday goods (shoes, turkeys, bread) and directly addresses "Americans," suggesting the cover addresses national economic concerns. The figure appears to represent either American wealth-hoarding or government/corporate excess. The exact historical moment remains unclear without the actual cover image.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
“Where Wealth Accumulates” The sentence above is the title to the cover of next week’s LiFe. What does it mean? To what country does it refer? What has that country been doing? Do you believe that the subject of the cover of the‘next Lire concerns you? Do you know what Pork means? Have you had occasion to discover the price of shoes, of turkeys, of bread? Are you an American? If so, we suggest that you secure a copy of the next issue of Lire and look it over carefully. It is not a special number. It has a few humorous things in it. But it has something else that marks it out as a distinctively American publication. 7” Special / Offer 7 _ Enclosed find One Dol. 7 lat (Canadian $1.13, Foreign $1.26). Send Lire for three months to 7 Open only to new subscribers; no sub- / scriptions renewed at this rate. > LIFE, 17 West 31st Street, New York. 7 x One Year $5.00. (Canadian $5.52, Foreign $6.04.) comicbooks.com