Life — June 21, 1917 — page 10: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 1062 **Top Illustration**: A wartime "Mother Goose" parody shows children engaged in military activities. The verse mocks the nursery rhyme format while addressing wartime hardships: "Joshua Jones all chief and groans, / What's wrong with your garden, Josh? / 'Society buds are hoeing my spuds, / And they've ruined the crop, b'gosh!'" This satirizes how privileged urbanites participating in wartime agricultural efforts were damaging crops. **Article "Allies of Prussia"**: The text attacks prominent anti-draft activists (Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman, Leonard Abbott, and others named) as effectively serving Prussian interests by opposing U.S. military preparation. The piece argues their pacifism and anti-government rhetoric, while claiming to support liberty, actually advance German military goals. It dismisses their grievances as mere "noise" masking support for autocracy. The satire equates domestic draft opposition with enemy collaboration.