Life, 1917-12-13 · page 12 of 40
Life — December 13, 1917 — page 12: what you’re looking at
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**Top Cartoon: "At the Betrayers Club"** This depicts wealthy or aristocratic figures at an exclusive club, with a caption about allowing "Tarbella, Denis, and General Beneifect Arnold to present a new member, Senator Littlefool of Wisconsin." The satire targets a senator (name likely fictional or obscure) for allegedly betraying principles, comparing him to Benedict Arnold, the Revolutionary War traitor. **Bottom Cartoon: "After the War"** Shows a woman teaching children, captioned "And where used Germany to be, teacher?" This references post-WWI geopolitical shifts, satirizing how thoroughly Germany's territory and status changed—so drastically that geography itself seemed altered for the next generation. Both cartoons employ historical comparison and ironic exaggeration to mock political betrayal and wartime consequences.
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AT THE BETRAYERS' CLUB “ALLOW ME, TARUEIA, JUDAS AND GENERAL BENEDICT ARNOLD, TO VRESED A NEW MEMBER, SENATOR LITTLEFOOL OF WISCONSIN” AFTER THE WAR “AND WHEKE USED GERMANY TO BE, TEACHER?” The Slackers’ Song HEKE’S a general in the 2 There's an admiral on th There's a soldier in the trenches What's the need of you and me There's a burning church in Russi There's a priest in the debris There's a baby dead in Belgium What's the need of you and 1 Ther 2 murdered girl in Flande That I wouldn't care to see; There’s a mother mad in London— What's the need of you and There’s a God somewhere in hes There's a Kaiser living free; It will take the world to beat his What's the need of you and me The “Triple Entente” unitions, oney. en, La Follette Sues ENATOR LA FOLLETTE } sued for $100,000 a Madison, \\ consin, paper which he accuses ¢ ous utterances intended to sh he was giving aid and comfort cnemy, If the enemy does not admit that he as received aid and comfort from Follette, he will show a mean, ungra ful spirit. _a Follette can get any out of the Madison paper for she him up, there is no reason why 1 should work for a living any 1 About nine-tenths of the papers i United States have been hospit the opinion that he has heen a ¢ to the Germans. and if he can ¥ them pay for it, he can retire on 4 fortune, Repudiated “LIERE, you,” shouted the com mander of the German air quadron to one of his raiders, “ Lack that Iron Cross at once. W just learned that it was a London | racks you bombed and not a children’s hospital.”