Life, 1917-07-05 · page 13 of 40
Life — July 5, 1917 — page 13: what you’re looking at
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**Top Image:** "The Willowbys' Ward" depicts a domestic scene where a young woman (Molly) has returned from a party to find elderly relatives waiting up for her. The illustration satirizes middle-class domestic supervision—the relatives appear concerned or disapproving of her evening out, reflecting early 20th-century anxieties about young women's independence and nightlife. **Bottom Section:** An article by Fannie Fern Andrews argues for teaching American schoolchildren to hate Germans and those promoting violence, framing this as necessary for "civic and moral stability." This appears to reflect post-WWI sentiment. The accompanying illustration shows children playing outdoors. The page juxtaposes domestic propriety concerns with nationalist educational ideology—both addressing social order and proper behavior during a period of significant cultural anxiety.
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THE WILLOWBYS' WARD. $ ON RETURNING FROM A PARTY, MOLLY IS GREATLY TOUCHED TO FIND THEM SITTING UP FOR HER : Maintaining Civic and Moral Stability ANNIE FERN ANDREWS, secretary of the American School and Peace League, has appealed to the school teachers of America to instruct their pupils not to hate the Germans. “The schools,” she says, “should maine tain a civil and moral stability among the youth of the land.” Fannie Fern Andrews is evidently willing to see the youth of the land grow up to be men and women who will not loathe and despise with all their strength a person or group of persons who murder women and children, disre- gard oaths and covenants which should be sacred, and bring desolation and ruin on the world. Logic would seem to demand that civic and moral sta- bility be maintained among the youth of any land by teach- ing them to hate persons who instigate such acts. Civic and moral stability can’t be maintained in a com- munity unless that community has a comprehensive hatred “RUN AROUND THE OTHER WAY, FRED—YOU'RE GETTING for moral obliquity. pizzy!” comicbooks.com