Life, 1917-11-01 · page 15 of 38
Life — November 1, 1917 — page 15: what you’re looking at
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**Top Cartoon: "The Beginner"** Shows a novice driver causing chaos—a car has crashed into a building, destroying a statue of Liberty. The caption reads "Well, anyway, I know now which is reverse," mocking new drivers who don't understand basic car mechanics. **Article: "A Taste of What's Coming"** Kenneth L. Roberts warns of post-WWI German resentment. He predicts Germans will blame their ancestors for the war's suffering, and their descendants will later seek revenge on nations that defeated them—a prescient warning about future German grievance and potential conflict. **Bottom Image: "The 20th Century Girl—Her First Cigar"** Satirizes modern women's newfound freedoms (smoking, independence). The silhouetted woman lighting a cigarette represents changing social norms regarding female behavior.
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The Beginner THE ath CENTURY GIRL HER FIRST CIGAR WELL, ANYWAY, I KNOW NOW WHICH IS REVERSE A Taste of What's Coming A ORDING to Percival Phillips, the war correspond- ent, a Prussian officer captured at Lens stated that the German troops at Lens had been given so much of their own poison gas medicine, and had suffered from it to such an extent, that they would willingly crucify the man who invented it. After the war, when Germans begin to travel around among civilized peoples again, they will find that the physical sufferings which the poison gas inflicted will be as nothing compared with the mental sufferings " will cause them. which various other German “inventions Millions of Germans as yet unborn will live to rue the days that led their ancestors to kill and mutilate women and children, regard treaties as scraps of paper, sink neutral vessels, subject prisoners of war to inhuman treatment, lay waste the fields of France and Belgium, and send their diplomatic snakes and professional debauchers to. instil among simple the poison of sedition, murder and treach and honest people. There will be a lot of Germans in line for crucifixion in the years to come, if their suffering descendants have anything to say about it. Kenneth L. Roberts. “LJOW did Jenks acquire his military bearing?” “As model for the Dresswell Clothes for Men Com- pany.” comicbooks.com