Life, 1918-09-26 · page 11 of 33
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**The Cartoon:** A line of armed soldiers (appearing to be American or Allied troops based on their uniforms and helmets) stands at attention while two dogs in front of them engage in a standoff. The caption reads: "The Terrier Mascot: say! just you wait till parade is over." **The Satire:** This is a WWI-era cartoon playing on the phrase "edging towards Berlin"—the Allies' military advance toward Germany. The joke uses dogs as stand-ins: the "terrier mascot" (representing Britain, given its terrier identity) warns another dog that once the formal parade ends, a real fight will occur. It's commentary on military posturing and the notion that formal military protocol masks the genuine aggression to come in actual combat.
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The Terrier Mascot Edging Towards Berlin [7 tay testa sects s6 think of Berlin, but who can read the pa- pers and not think of it? A. Times corre- spondent with the French army, observing on September sth that there had begun to be serious dis cussion whether the war could be ended this year, quoted the remark that it was less extravagant now to entertain such a hope than on July igth it would have been to antici- » that the enemy would be where September found them. We may be fooled to some extent by the news we t, but undoubtedly the German pros- pects read rottener and more gloomy every day. All along, from time to time, the Germans have said that this was for them a defensive war. The Crown Prince h and still more recently the Kaiser. We all know it was long a lie, but at last heen saying so lately, Foch and the Allies are making it come true, for Paris is out of dai and all the waning might of Germany r now, is marshaled to bar the road to Berlin. Von Kuehlmann’s opinion that Ger- many could not get a military decision cost him his job, but the red eagle of the first class that the Kaiser lately sent him is his consolation prize for being right. Chancellor von Hertling, appealing the other day to the Prus- sians to reform the franchise, told them that the preservation of the crown and dynasty was at stake. So the Ger- mans have begun to see their finish, The political medicine is being poured out for Prussia, but the m 'y medicine, in lar; is the neces- sary preliminary to any good for her from taking the other. Once more thoroughly licked, Prussia may he good for a while, and of course it is con- ceivable that democracy and a com- plete change of instruction may, in time, change the character of her people, say! JUST YoU WaIT TILL PARADI Is OVER though folks who think so will be rated as optimists ut for the present the military medic is all there is to think of, and we of these States may well rejoice in the surpassing success that has tended our efforts to furnish it. ven, now, with nearly two million men gone abroad—not counting all the girls—we are not a great force at the front, but the testimony comes in generously from all the Allies, and sadly from the Germans, that the huge effort of the United States has alone made possible the great summer German smash that has stopped ggression, cracked German resistance, set Berlin a-tremble ° with the The jig is not up by a good deal, but the whole line of pipers are playing hard and fast, and the Germans are paying then and brought us eto f end of the war. A little ahead—not far any more— are great sights for those who will sce them, and great stories for the rest of comicbooks.com