Life, 1918-10-31 · page 26 of 34
Life — October 31, 1918 — page 26: what you’re looking at
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The top cartoon depicts foreign-language newspapers during WWI, shown as figures huddled around a large newspaper. "The Foreign-Language Press" satirizes immigrant media outlets, likely suggesting they were suspected of disloyalty or spreading propaganda during wartime. The main article "Winning the War in Reduced Garments" mocks Life magazine's own paper conservation efforts (thinner stock causing image bleed-through), while sarcastically praising them as patriotic sacrifice. It also criticizes wasteful politicians and government agencies who generate unnecessary paperwork despite conservation appeals. "All Aboard for St. Sophia" addresses post-WWI territorial questions: who will control Istanbul's famous Byzantine church once Ottoman rule ends? The piece proposes it become common property of all Christians rather than claimed by specific denominations—a plea for post-war cooperation over competitive nationalism. The small comic "Jimpson" jokes about meatless days (wartime rationing), showing someone exasperated enough to quit the practice entirely.
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Winning the War in Reduced Garments OU can see through Lire pretty well these days; something hitherto more or less difficult, even to the most captious critic. Two pictures, printed on opposite sides of the same page, have a way of mingling with each other when Axe cxposed to the light of day, = which is truly shocking, espe- cially when those pictures have been toiled over by conscientious artists and process plate makers with the sublime sense of their duty to the public. But it is always well to be in the prevail- ing fashion. Perhaps the Hun will be able to see through us better when he realizes that these economies in paper weight are cheerfully endured and that the soul of Democracy, stripped of its material coverings, still goes marching on. Lire modestly commends its own example to that horde of paper w: ers, in Congress and out, who Ii! nothing better than to exploit their THE FOREIGN-LANGUAGE PRESS feeble utterances on reams of paper that are daily and hourly thrown into waste-baskets all over the country, only to be later reclaimed, with immense labor, by the salvage stations of the Red Cross. And to the Bureau of Pub- lic Information we present also our shivering but high-minded commisera- tion. All Aboard for St. Sophia HEN the Turks quit Constanti- nople who will get St. Sophia? If Mr. Wilson has a say, the Presby- terians will have a representative at the allotment. The Greek Church will want it, of course. It is conceivable that to let the Greek Church have it would peeve the Roman Church, but that might not seém to everybody an objection. The Greek Church, with headquarters in St. Sophia, would be a large-type reminder to the world that the ecclesiastical su- premacy of Rome has been disputed since the earliest times, and that the discussion is still on. But why let St. Sophia go to any organization? Wouldn't it be possible to hold it as a common property of all Christians, and so held, wouldn't it be a good example to a world which seems just now to be developing large views, and to think coldly of dynastic, ecclesiastical and corporate exclusive- ness? pI Se Jimpson: THERE! THIS SETTL iT! 1M THROUGH OBSERVING BEEFLESS DAYS! comicbooks.com