Life, 1917-10-18 · page 9 of 40
Life — October 18, 1917 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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The top illustration is captioned "Object Lesson: For the Landlord Who Allows Too Hasty Agents to Evict Poor Tenants." It depicts a crowded interior scene with various figures and furniture, satirizing landlords who use overzealous agents to evict tenants, apparently commenting on housing injustice. Below are three brief commentary sections: "Lucky for Dogs" discusses hydrophobia concerns and the Pasteur Institutes; "Things We Regret" lists wartime-related regrets (I.W.W., Secretary Daniels, La Follette, Bernstorf, and the Lusitania); and "Providing" notes war statistics and soldier vaccination rates. A photograph labeled "Doing His Bit" shows a dog in a trench, reinforcing animal service themes during wartime. The page appears to address early 20th-century social and wartime concerns.
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2 He OBJECT LESSON FOR THE LANDLORD WHO ALLOWS TOO HASTY AGENTS TO EVICT POOR TENANTS Lucky for Dogs Wy no hydrophobia scare this last summer? There is always money in it for the Pasteur Institutes. Did they suspect they had been overdoing it? We read in Living Tissue: For some reason, perhaps because of the engrossing interest in the war and draft, the summer of 1917 has passed without a hydrophobia scare of any such extent as to attract general public attention. 2. The great public service of the Pasteur Institutes is that even where there is no hydrophobia they can supply the desired article; as Bernard Shaw says: They don’t cure hydrophobia, they give it. Things We Regret HAT the I. W. W. isn’t in the German trenches. That Secretary Daniels doesn't know what we think about him, That La Follette and Bernstorff weren't on the Lusitania. That there can be anyone so foolish as not to buy a Liberty Bona, WZ, Ate Ws "oa | Providing HE latest war statistics should prove very encouraging to the new soldier. Providing he survives the army vaccination and anti-typhoid serum injections, there is only one chance in seventeen that he will fall in battle. DOING HIS BIT