Life, 1918-02-07 · page 8 of 40
Life — February 7, 1918 — page 8: what you’re looking at
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**Top Cartoon: "Unhappy Austria"** This depicts Austria after World War I, showing a skeletal, war-ravaged figure being instructed "Over den top, again, Karl! Don't gift dem any rest!" The cartoon satirizes Austria's continued hardship and instability during the post-war period, suggesting the nation faces endless demands and suffering without respite. **Bottom Cartoon: "Making Love"** A child surrounded by dangerous household items (poison, gun powder, nitric acid) illustrates darkly humorous social commentary about parenting or societal negligence. **Text Section: "Things That the Uninitiated Would Like to Know About Banks and Banking"** A satirical list of rhetorical questions mocking banking practices, inefficiencies, and the absurdities of banking operations—critiquing everything from architectural wastefulness to poor customer service.
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UNHAPPY AUSTRIA “OVER DER TOP, AGAIN, KARL! DON’T GIFF DEM ANY REST!” Things That the Uninitiated Would Like to Know About Banks and Banking HY somebody doesn’t invent a floor for banks that won't have an evil smell when being washed. Why a man always feels like a criminal when he draws money out of a savings bank. Why a cheque has to be endorsed on the back, when it could be done so much more easily if there were a space provided for that purpose on the front How anybody is going to know which is a bank's favorite vice-president, when it has six or eight of them Whether the eighth vice-president ever gets despondent over the possibilities of outliving the other seven and get- ting a regular job. Why the new-style banks, whose ccilings are from thirty to one hundred feet above the floor level, don’t utilize the wasted space by hanging a big bird cage from the roof and putting the president in it during dull hours Why a cashier will spend days tracing a one-cent short- age when he could make the books come out all right by giving the bank a cent out of his own pocket. How bank presidents learn to sign their names so il- MAKING LOVE legibly.