Life — June 13, 1918 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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# "Another Charge Against Our Secretary of War" This satirical cartoon comments on accusations against the U.S. Secretary of War during World War I. The illustration shows two men in conversation, with the caption "I must say I do think Mr. Baker might let you wait till I finish this other sock." The text discusses a dispute between Colonel Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt) and the *Tribune* newspaper over "anti-war papers" allegedly suppressed by the administration. The article defends the Secretary of War (appears to be Newton D. Baker), arguing he lacks motive to target the *Hearst* newspapers, and that Roosevelt's publications have complained more than *Hearst's*. The cartoon mocks the trivial nature of accusations against the Secretary of War by depicting domestic wartime rationing (sock-knitting), suggesting critics are making mountains out of molehills.