Life, 1917-06-07 · page 33 of 42
Life — June 7, 1917 — page 33: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily a **title/advertising page** from Life magazine (page 1001), not a political cartoon page. The main content is a **humorous editorial** titled "Save a Few Golf-Links" that references "Millerites"—likely alluding to end-times predictions. The piece argues against plowing up golf courses for wartime agriculture, claiming golf-links are economically valuable and shouldn't be destroyed just because some predict the world's end. It's satirizing excessive wartime zealotry while defending leisure as a legitimate social good. A secondary piece mocks German treatment of war dead, quoting a cynical visitor defending German practices by saying each nation has its own moral standards—clearly satirizing both German conduct and moral relativism. The page includes advertisements for **Tiffany & Co.** (jewelry), **Banff Springs Hotel** (Canadian tourism), and the **Canadian Pacific Railway**. The illustration at bottom titled "The Awakening" depicts cherubs around a bed—its meaning is unclear without additional context.
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drinks York Save a Few Golf-Links ON'T be too Millerite abou plowing up things. Maybe the world isn’t coming to an end this lap, after all. Maybe you are going to need golf again some time; therefore, don't plow up the golf-links until the rest of the land is under cultivation. It costs much to bring golf-links under discipline, and though life is more than golf, the two have not been incompati- ble heretofore and may not be this year, Golf-links can be taxed and made a source of revenue, and that, we under- stand, is to be done. That is far more economic than to plow them up. To plow up a good putting-green to plant potatoes would be like burning dia- monds because coal is high. There are lawns also that are worth more as lawns than as potato patches, though American lawns, as a rule, are not precious. Most of them will profit by rotation of crops. Land is not scarce in this country. What is scarce are tillers who know how to till it, and have the thews and patience for the work. AN American visitor who just dropped in to see me seemed surprised that our newspapers are horrified because the Germans have formed a limited company to treat their dead soldiers scientifically, and turn them into hogs’ food. “ After all,” he s we all have our own idea of Paradise, and though the pig-sty seems about the limit, the Hun ought to know what is best for his own people."—London Opinion. | Canadian Pacific Rockies Walk. Climb, Ride in the Saddle over the high mountain ‘Coach through glorious days in the heart of America's “Fifty Switzerlands.” Fare Selo Pols fe Batlag, Good Fishing. Excellent Golfing. ‘our home in the magnificendy BANFF _SPRINGS HOTEL Stop-Over Privileges. CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY Wree for cure Tour 1. Fem, General Agen, Pass Dest iSekea™ at TIFFANY & CO. JEWELRY AND SILVERWARE OF THE HIGHEST STANDARD IN QUALITY DESIGN AND WORKMANSHIP ‘THE TIFFANY BLUE Book GIVES DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS AND RANGE OF PRICES FIFTH AVENUE & 37" STREET NEw YoRK — SS ns THE AWAKENING comicbooks.com