Life, 1917-08-30 · page 38 of 40
Life — August 30, 1917 — page 38: what you’re looking at
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This page combines a Jack London book advertisement with contemporary WWI-era political commentary. The upper right article, "Working to Kill Civilization," attacks American anarchists and labor activists—specifically naming Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman, and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)—for opposing the draft and organizing strikes in copper mines during World War I. The article argues these groups hinder American war effort against Germany and suspects German funding. However, it dismisses them as minor threats compared to widespread public support for the draft and war. The advertisement promotes Jack London's "The Sea-Wolf," whose protagonist is presented as a ruthless villain—apparently meant to contrast with the moral clarity the author claims characterizes the war itself. The free-book offer targets soldiers and sailors, positioning London as patriotic reading material for troops. The page reflects 1917-1918 American anxieties about domestic dissent during wartime.
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358 iy! al oh aaeheteg Mail this coupon with 10c for Jack London’s Masterpieces Working to Kill Civilization | HE war is using up the materials of civilization so fast that some | people are worried for fear that civili- zation will become anemic and die of shock. The way to stop the war is to lick Germany. People who want it to go on try to hinder us Americans from | helping in that effort. Anarchists like 1 Goldman and Berkman, and Bill Hay- } wood's I. W. W2s, who think our j nt in | ps and civilization is a failure, are d resisting the draft, burning er¢ } facilitating strikes in copper mines. | Washington thinks they work with German money. Certainly they earn it and ought to have it But the anarchists and 1. W. W.'s are While love drew them together, the ecil-plotting Sea-Woit not a serious peril, and just as this is a searched them oat! good time for them to raise all the hob they can, so it is an excellent time to THE GREATEST handle them and put them to rights. In WORKS OF | country. The great mass of us be- ‘ | lieve in the draft and accept it, be- J i lieve in the war and intend to see it | through, believe in’ civilization and propose, so far as lies in us, to keep *‘For we're booming down on the old trail, our own trail, the oat trail, it a-going. To abolish the wage system We're sagging south on the Long Trail— the trail that is always new.” and capital and the Ford and all those appliances we are used to seems over- | OLF LARSEN, “The Sea-Wolf,’’ is speculative, There are those who have singing. Ahead of himon thetrailare men to be kicked and pounded and broken; women to insult and toy with; a hell ship to command; a world to prey upon. He has lured certain couples of Kura Island to his ship, he has manipulated so that the hus- bands had been left astern while he sails away with their wives; scores of such deeds lie ahead of him so, like the devil he is, he sings. Read about him in Jack London’s master- pieces. By agreat stroke of gocd fortune McClure’s has managed to secure the very cream of Jack London’s works. They cost you nothing, if you accept the offer made below. OUR OFFER ‘We will send you tree and postpaid, it you sign and mail us coupon, the greatest Jack London in 4 volumes, bound In handsome cloth and gold stamped. yyment on your subscrigtion. You receive at once jetropolitan and The Ladies’ World. You then send that's ail. The three magazines come to you for twelve months. What you pay te less than what you would pay tor the magi nd looked for so great cha ges to come from the war that they will be disap- pointed if the end of it does not find them dressed in skins and living in trees and caves. But most of us do not insist on such radical changes, and if we did we should have to have pa- } tience, for civilization is a lingering | ailment and neither comes nor goes all at once. Canadian and foreign postage extra. Subscriptions may new or renewal. Mail Above Coupon for Your HERE ARE THE BOOKS— Free Books—DO IT NOW! MIME SEA-WOLE"* These Books Come Free Soldiers and Sailors de- mand Jack Lonpon Emmett McCarthy, a petty officer of the class of Stevenson, Kipling and Roberteon as have ever read. You who want to “keep up" with what your soldier or sailor boy is reading—get Jack London. You who want to vend good. clean, virile literature to some boy in the Army or Navy. here is your chance. The books and magazines can be sent to separate addresses if you like. Just send instructions with coupon. meciure euions MICCLURE’S MAGAZINE. sew vor cn | cuvatny PLTER J. CARLY, PRINTER Pomicbooksico Marines writes:—" ‘The Sea-Wolf’ puts Jack London in the writer of sea stories, His The Call of the Wild’ is the best dog story I