Life, 1918-09-05 · page 11 of 34
Life — September 5, 1918 — page 11: what you’re looking at
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**Top Cartoon:** Shows a man at a desk (likely a newspaper editor or official) confronted by visitors with papers. The caption reads: "Look here! You've stopped sending my paper." "Mistake, sir. Hope it hasn't mattered." "Mattered! Why, I haven't known for two weeks what my wife has been doing!" This is a joke about newspaper dependency—the implication being that the man relied on reading about his wife's social activities in the paper to know what she was doing, satirizing both newspaper gossip columns and marital disconnect. **Bottom Section:** "Marse Henry, Emeritus" announces Colonel Watterson's retirement from the newspaper. The accompanying cartoon shows bomb-proof traveling vehicles labeled "During an Air-Raid" and "All Clear"—likely referencing WWI air-raid concerns and the absurdity of mobile bomb shelters.
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Hid “LOOK HERE! YOU'VE STOPPED SENDING MY PAPER.” “MISTAKE, SIR, HOPE IT HASN'T MATTERED, “ MATTERED! Marse Henry, Emeritus The Courier-Journal has been sold to Ju Robert W. Bingha at the top of the editorial lisher. ow it appears: Hesey Watresox, Editor Emeritus. UDGE SINGHAM announces that Colonel Watterson will not discontinue his connection with the paper, but hile withdrawing from editori will contribute is counsels and experience to its editorial management All that accords with what Marse Henry's friends would sish, He does not say good-bye, but he reviews his fiity cars’ connection with the paper to the length of three col- mns, winding up with characteristic remarks about the sorld war, “which can only end with the overthrow of ein the issue of August 7th as its pub- Saigerism.” “Nothing short of a holocaust for Potsdam will suffice. Now and ever, to hell with autocracy. Now and ever, to ell with the Hohenzollern and the Hapsburg.”” editor emeritus expounds his quality. For thirty-four years the present scribe has been read- So the WHY, | HAVEN'T KNOWN FOR TWO WEEKS WHAT MY WIFE HAS BEEN DOING!” ing after Colonel Watterson, about more kinds of things and people than any other newspaper writer of them all has dealt with. For though the Colonel has been a diligent politician all his days, he never has looked upon politics as the whole of life. All the other branches have had his DURING AN AIR-RAID “ALL CLEAR” “.ipe’s" UNPATENTEC BOMB-PROOF TRAVELING CELLAR comicbooks.com