Life — February 28, 1918 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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335 The Transportation Situation E have starved the steam horse On the merest clap-traps, And in logical course It has had a collapse. It is weary and old, And it needs the best care. Its fodder is gold; We have fed it hot air. MS ' a We have driven it fast With the speeding that racks; It has fallen at last In its parallel tracks. We have bled it with bills, We have cut it with strikes, Till it reeled in its thrills And lay down on the spikes, We may lash it with greed To the top of our bent; What it wants is its feed Of the proper per cent. Let us call Dr. Rate, Let us give him free course; If it isn't too late We shall get back our horse. Amos R. Wells. HORRORS OF WAR SUFFERERS FROM THE CAVIAR FAMINE Typographical OW that the metropolitan papers have raised their price, would it be beyond the bounds of reason to suggest that some of them print their papers so that they can he read? Occasionally the Sun has a column of type the edges of mes 7 ¢ Fat Masquerader: 1 KNOW 1 voN'T possible to read the news articles in the Times, Perhaps eyesight, after all, is ook MUCH LIKE JULIUS CAFSARS BUT which have not been battered away, and with the aid of a microscope it is still not a highly desirable asset at present, and hy doing what they can to destroy it, wo are you SUPPOSED To BE? the New York papers are actuated hy a high sense of duty. MAVAN THE TERRIBLE,” comicbooks.com