Life, 1917-05-17 · page 12 of 35
Life — May 17, 1917 — page 12: what you’re looking at
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This *Life* magazine page contains WWI-era satirical content. The illustration labeled "Events Leading Up to the War" depicts skeletal figures in successive underground layers, suggesting the accumulation of death and destruction preceding the conflict. The article "A Song for France" celebrates American military support for France, with lyrics about "Yankees coming" to aid the war effort—reflecting American intervention sentiment. "Does Champ Clark Derive from Canada?" discusses a political figure's controversial views on Canada's relationship to the United States. The piece suggests his anti-war or isolationist positions reflect suspicious sympathies, while implying that French-Canadian heritage might explain his stance. "A Wavering Dividing Line" discusses medical standards for military service, humorously noting that "eighty percent" serve for genuine purposes while "twenty percent" may seek to advertise themselves as scientists.
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A Song for France (Air—" The Campbells Are Coming”) HE Yankees are coming, oho! oho! The Yankees are coming, oho! oho! So sad and so mad that for battle they're glad, The Yankees are coming, oho! oho! They're sons of fathers that marched and fought; They've reckoned and ‘lowed till they guess they'd ought; The drums are a-drumming, the bugles they blow, And at last they’re a-coming, oho! oho! The Yankees are coming, oho! oho! The Yankees are coming, oho! oho! So sad and so mad that for battle they're glad, The Yankees are coming, oho! oho! Their flag's unfurled for a clean, free sea And a peaceable world with all nations free. To help the peace come and to help the Hun go, They're coming, they're coming, oho! oho! Does Champ Clark Derive from Canada? HAMP CLARK has some curious views that break out of him at times quite inopportunely. The strength of his recent opposition to conscription was surprising. No less so the sentiment he emitted several years ago, to effect that it was the destiny of Canada to be joined to the United States, He may be right about Canada, There is no objection to the idea, provided that Canada follows her own choice. But possibly this sentiment about Canada and his anti- conscription feeling are products in him of the same idiosyncrasy. “ Champ” is “ Beauchamp,” and it has been said that the Speaker's full, christened mame is Jacques Car- tier Beauchamp Clark. If he is of French Canadian stock that would help very much to explain him. It would ex- plain clearly why he thinks the United States should include Canada, and since the French Canadians are cold about the war, it would explain Champ’s distaste for conscription. Nobody who is anti-English wants to do anything to make our part in the war effective. Champ was born in Kentucky, but where the family came from.his biographers do not tell. Colonel Watterson would probably know. A Wavering Dividing Line “ Vivisection for clean scientific purposes,” says the Anacostes (Wash.) Citizen, “ shades over very easily into vivisection for the pleasure of watching suffer- ing.” A sour eighty per cent. of it, we should say, at a rough guess, is done for that purpose. ‘The other twenty per cent. may be laid to the hope of advertising the “ scientist” himself. a0 “IS Gerald going to enlist “T don't know; but he certainly has the courage. He talks to the cook as carelessly as if she were one of the EVENTS LEADING UP TO THE WAR family.” comicbooks.com