Life, 1918-05-02 · page 38 of 40
Life — May 2, 1918 — page 38: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several distinct pieces: **The Cartoon**: Shows King Solomon surrounded by his wives in bed, commenting on his legendary 700 marriages—a biblical reference suggesting marital excess and its complications. **"The Real Cause?"**: A reprinted telegram criticizing the U.S. War Department's medical practices, specifically attacking Surgeon General Gorgas for requiring soldiers to undergo inoculations. The sender (the National Anti-Vivisection Federation) views mandatory vaccinations as "poisoning" soldiers' blood rather than protecting them. This reflects early 20th-century vaccine skepticism and anti-government medical conspiracy thinking that remained common even during wartime. **The "Credit" Essay**: A satirical definition mocking consumer credit culture, arguing that credit enables poor financial decisions and societal problems (wars, scandals, suicides, national debt). **Advertisement**: For "Drowsy," a new romance novel by John Ames Mitchell. The page reflects Progressive Era anxieties about modern institutions—military medicine, consumer capitalism, and marital relations—presented through satire typical of *Life* magazine's social commentary.
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‘Among the Pines | clio in tent, log cabin or modern: hotel in a country of scenic beauty where fishing, hunting, kodaking, canoe- ing are at their best. Highlands of Ontario offers you and all the family the outing of your life. The Grand Trunk Railway will help you plan your stay at Algonquin Park, Muskoka Lakes, Georgian Bay, Lake of Bays or Timagami.| Write or call for literature. J.D. McDocsld, 917 Merchants Loan & Trust Bide, Chicace F. P. Dwyer, 1270 Broadway, New York W. R Eastman, 294 Washingtoo St, Boston A.B Chown, 506 Park Bldg, Pietsbargh ii The Real Cause? From a telegram sent to Hon. George E. Chamberlain, Chairman of the Military Committee The inefficient and non-effective feature of the War Department is its staff of medical men who are persistently, and under rules of compulsion, poisoning the blood of every soldicr by injecting into them repeated doses of disease-inducing serums. Surgeon General Gorgas should look within and not try to fasten the fault upon the Quartermaster and Engineering Departments. He charges them with nex- lect. We charge him with maintaining the practice of inoculations that is fraught with these grievous consequences. It is America’s medical establishment which “is enmeshed in inefficiency.” Tue Natioxat Axti-Vivisection Froer- ATION. AMUEL JOHNSON in speaking of his familiarity with “each change of many-color'd Lire,” showed that he was not only a regular sub- scriber, but that he took a special in- terest in the colored covers. “ WEY, JIMMIE, COME UP! WE CAN HAVE A THREE-RING CIRCUS” Credit REDIT is a chance taken by certain individuals that you can afford to pay for something sometime after you have ceased to derive any benefits from its posses- sion. Credit is also a means of securing things you want without digging into the cash you wish to spend on yourself. Again, credit is an attempt to deceive you into be- lieving that you need things you cannot pay for and that you can pay for things you do not need. Without credit there would be no collection agencies, no bond issues, no national debt, no military organization, no wars of any duration, no public buildings, fewer public scandals, fewer marriages, fewer suicides, fewer failures and fewer successes. Great is credit—frequently too great! Solomon, who was wiser than anybody, ad seven hundred wives.” But there is only one heroine in DROWSY The new romance by JOHN Ames MitcHELL. A story of love and me- chanical triumph by the author of **Amos Judd’? and **The Pines of Lory,” “The Villa Claudia,”’ etc. Published by Stokes. Sent upon receipt of $1.50 by Lire Pustisninc Company, 17 West 31st Street, New York City. . eo 6 ee 4 ev re Tis not z they Lenses th the highes _ Incident fner looki Second Edition Price Cenada $ w comicbooks3eom) PETER J. CAREY, PRINTER