Life, 1918-03-07 · page 13 of 40
Life — March 7, 1918 — page 13: what you’re looking at
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**Main Cartoon:** Shows a military officer shaking hands with a woman in public, surrounded by onlookers. The caption reads: "I just wanted to say, Colonel, that you'll find my son much easier to manage if you don't humor him too much." **Meaning:** This satirizes overindulgent parenting and maternal concern about military discipline. The joke suggests the mother fears the Army won't be strict enough with her coddled son—inverting typical complaints about military harshness. It mocks both hovering parents and their grown sons' dependence. **Secondary Content:** A piece titled "Financial Politician" features dialogue between a farmer and politician about putting "good men in office," suggesting political cynicism about whether money influences political appointments. **Small Illustration:** Captioned "Future Assignment of the Wife Who Makes Her Husband Go Outdoors to Smoke"—satirizing wives' domestic control over smoking husbands.
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in the hands of the Germans. Their qualities will determine their destiny. Along with their abilities go enormous disabilities. They must do according to what is in them. They must obey the demon that drives them until out of the extreme of suffering they gain the courage to expel it. They must destroy, and so invite destruction, until their racial propensity has wrought its own They must keep on ac- cumulating enemies, exasperating neut- rals, alienating allies, until blind and correction. wicked policies have perfected their work What the German has most to fear is what is inside of him. By current estimate the worst that can happen to Germans has happened already, in that they are Germans, The world is not “LIFE “1 JUST WANTED TO SAY, COLONEL, THAT YOU'LL FIND MY SON MUCH DON'T HUMOR HIM TOO MUCH” going to adjust itself to their misfor- tune in this particular, It is they who will have to adjust themselves to the world. They will not be able to make the world an overgrown Germany in which the other peoples will h: to live under German direction, No. They will have to live in a world largely populated and managed, as now, by folks who are not Germans and don’t want to be, and whose primary concern as long as is necessary will be to keep Germans in their place. EB. S. M. Financial HE POLITICIAN: I sce you farmers believe in putting good men in office. Farmer Corntosstt: best that money can buy. Yep! The EASIER TO MANAGE IF YOU FUTURE ASSIGN MENT OF THE WIFE WHO MAKES HER HUSBAND GO OUTDOORS TO SMOKE, comicbooks.com