Life, 1918-02-28 · page 27 of 40
Life — February 28, 1918 — page 27: what you’re looking at
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**Top Cartoon:** A Sunday school teacher asks a child laborer "Who is it that is always watching even little children?" The child answers "The foreman"—a bitter joke about child labor conditions. The contrast between the teacher's religious setting and the child's grim reality satirizes American hypocrisy: society professes to care for children while industrial exploitation continues unchecked. **Bottom Left - "What the U.S.G.A. Overlooks":** Criticizes the United States Golf Association's inconsistent treatment of golfer Francis Ouimet. The USGA declared him a professional for selling golf supplies, then reinstated him as an amateur after his military service. The satire mocks the association's arbitrary rules and its blindness to golf being fundamentally a gentleman's game, not a moral battleground. **Bottom Right - "Pro Bono Publico":** A tongue-in-cheek proposal for government "Speech Administration" to ration wartime words and enforce weekly silence to conserve language. The joke's punchline: only deaf-mutes should administer it—satirizing how absurdly bureaucratic wartime restrictions had become.
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Paaren vt fas AC Sunday-Schoot Teacher uit Child Laborer What the U. S. G. A. Overlooks YOUNG MR. FRANCIS OUIMET, golfer extraordi- nary, was some time since declared a professional golier by the United States Golf Association because he Recently the U.S. GN on entering the the sold golfing supplies reinstated him as an amateur because. ” service of the United States, he which were decided to be in vielation of the S.GAS always a professional discontin practices cur rules If a man is once a professional, he is Miter the war, Mr. Onimet will selling sporting The A. would be better sportsmen if declared Mr. our unjust of the U. return to his business of goods members of the U.S. G. they s “We never should have Onimet a professional. We declaration, and reinstate him in the amateur ranks, where he has always belonged.” The U.S. G. A sight of the fact that golf is a gentleman's ould say hereby revoke seems to came. MIKE, CAN YOU TELL ME WHO IT IS THAT IS ALWAYS WATCHING EVEN CHILDREN ? THE FOREMAN, Pro Bono Publico T° render the American war organization more efficient it is desirable that speech control be added to the ad- ministrations already established. The Speech Adminis- tration should sce to it that as few words as possible are wasted during the period of the war: it should be em- powered to fix verbal limits to all legislative and execu- tive utterances and even to enforce a weekly spe day, when all conversation would be taboo, excepting that for the operation of business and absolutely necessary social intercourse. The observation of the speechless would involve hardship to some, but compensation would le found in the relief afforded to others. Certainly no grimly determined patriot would object to keeping his own counsel for one day out of every seven. Of course, to be consistent, eligibility for the position of speech adminis- r should be restricted to deaf mutes. comicbooks.com