Life, 1917-11-29 · page 25 of 40
Life — November 29, 1917 — page 25: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
**The Cartoon (top):** A military recruiter addresses a "Conscientious Objector" (someone opposed to military service on moral grounds), offering to make him "look like a real American" through the "Camouflage" unit. This satirizes WWI-era pressure on draft resisters—suggesting that refusing military service was un-American, and that the military could "fix" objectors through propaganda or coercion disguised as patriotism. **The Article "Three Doors to Truth":** A philosophical essay distinguishing education, cultivation, and taste as separate but complementary paths to knowledge and truth, all rooted in religion, art, or learning. **The Joke (bottom):** Congress unanimously passed a bill exempting its own members from income tax. The satire mocks congressional hypocrisy—their only unanimous vote was self-serving legislation benefiting themselves, implying Congress rarely agrees on anything unless personally advantageous.
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f i Sh j [ Member of the Camouflage to Conscientious Objector: Nu \ > v" \ \\ \s \) \ LUKEWARM, OLD TOP! COME AROUND TO. OUR COMPANY SOME MORNING—WE'LL FIX YOU UP SO THAT YOU'LL LOOK LIKE A REAL AMERICAN | Three Doors to Truth MAN may be educated but not have much knowledge. He may be cultured without having more than the rudiments of education. He may be cultivated because he has practiced an art. Education has to do with the train- ing and development of the mind. We commonly think of educated people as people who know about what is in books. Cultivation has more to do with taste. Taste is a branch of knowl- edge, but one may have sound and cul- tivated taste and still be illiterate, Cultivation and taste may come from the practice of an art, which is a con- stant pursuit of what is beautiful. Still another development may come from the comprehension and practice of re- ligion and the pursuit of what is good. Whoever has understanding of an art and practices it is educated in a measure, and the same is true of who- ever has understanding of religion and practices that. Religion mainly edu- cates the spirit, but it also does much for the mind. It makes people think, and that is excellent mental exercise. Afflictions abound in this world be- cause so many people have knowledge without taste or religion, or have taste without knowledge or religion, or have religion without knowledge or taste. Knowledge, taste and religion are all doors to truth. Happy is he who has keys to all of them. i CONGRESS voted unanimously on a measure for once in its his- tory.” “When?” “On the bill which exempted mem- bers of Congress from the income tax.” comicbooks.com