Life — October 18, 1917 — page 13: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

‘LIFE 621 Out on a Rotten Peace! ( are very tired of the war, aren't we? Cog Oh, yes, very! Cy aN) Tired of eternally reading about it and not get- ts ¥ * y ting much ahead; tired of eternally thinking about it and not being able to see the way ou tired of having all our ordinary plans messed up because the boys have gone off and the girls are busy with war work; tired of high cost of living and wages correspondingly high, so that all unnecessary work must he postponed. Right across all lines of thought cuts the war. All thought is concerned with life in some of its aspects, and we can't tell what life is going to be until we know what will be the issue of the war. The scholar who searches his- tory is perfunctory in his studies. No matter what he finds out about the past, he cannot fit inferences to it un- til he knows how the war is going to end. The war, this war, is the fruit of history. He knows that, but he does not examine history to understand the war, He examines the war to under- stand history. This extraordinary fruit tells him more about the tree than anything he can read up about the tree can tell him about this fruit. No more back lessons in history till this pro- digious new story is on file and one can reason about it! Even the money-maker lags in his ling. He has to make some money if he can, because there never was a time when the need to make a living was more urgent. But beyond the satis- faction of that need the fervor of money-making has slackened. The government needs all the money, and needs it with such urgency and for uses of such vital concern to human life, that the more proficient money- makers seem to have put aside their own aims for the time and to be piling in to help the government. Ordinary, hand-to-mouth people, if they have a little money come in, or manage to Behind the Kaiser save a little, don’t ask, the first thing, NERAL VON HINDENBURG is authority for the statement that “the What is a good investment? They ask, German people are behind the Kaiser.” There is reason to believe that the How much of this must go for bonds? German people are beginning to wake up to the fact that the Kaiser has led them Bonds don’t pay a high rate of inter- to the brink of ruin, and that he has well-nigh destroyed their credit and their est, but most people don’t much regard reputation. If General von Hindenburg is correct, then the German people are in interest when they buy bonds. What the proper strategic position to commence their upward climb. The world awaits they think about is the war. the news that the German people have taken advantage of being behind the Yes: it’s tiresome, but there's only Kaiser and have given hirt a swift kick where it will do him the most good, one way to have it over, and that's to ¢ “aut gor! waat’s THE MATTER WITH THIS CAK?” “USED TO BELONG TO THE FIRE CHIEF.” comicbooks.com