Life, 1918-11-14 · page 2 of 34
Life — November 14, 1918 — page 2: what you’re looking at
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This page combines WWI-era fundraising advocacy with poetry and product advertisements. **Main Content:** The dominant left advertisement urges readers to support the YMCA's wartime relief efforts for soldiers. The photograph shows a Y.M.C.A. worker (Earl Ballew) distributing chocolate and cigarettes to soldiers in trenches at the front lines. The text emphasizes what civilians *cannot* directly provide to troops overseas—only the Y.M.C.A. can deliver these morale-boosting supplies and services through donations. **Supporting Content:** The right column features patriotic poetry ("A Plea for the Skunk-Cabbage") and short humor pieces, along with period advertisements for Luden's cough drops. This is explicitly wartime propaganda encouraging charitable contributions, not political satire.
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4 Weekly at 1? List Sereet, New N.Y, ription, Five “TPE * Let the Y. M. C. A. do it for you You can’t send chocolate to the boys across the water—but the Triangle workers can hand it to them. you can hearten them. You can’t serve them, but You can’t furnish them with music, light, warmth, books, maga- zines, inspiring speakers, a place to write and materials to write home —except by your contributions to the Y. M. C. A. Earl Balleu, Y. M. C. A. worker, giving chocolate and smokes to sentries in advanced listening post. position on the active front. Space donated by Makers of Chocolates What Every Youngster Knows Ss’ ET are the uses of a jackknife It's an ideal evening that knows no itime Tis better to have loved your school- teacher, than to have been caught by her—loving somcone else. Hunger springs eternal in the human breast Run to a fire and the world runs with you; run on an errand and you run alone. his is the extreme advanced Fido, thou art a jewel! Rising-time and alarm clocks wait for no man. Oh, what is so long as a row of beans? Do unto others as they have done unto your little brother A plunge in a swimming-hole is worth two in a bath-tub. Dentists will be dentists. He jests at tears that never stubbed his toe. Refuge, thy name is Mother! ne #, 2081, at the Post Office at New A Plea for the Skunk-Cabbage ILL no one sing thee? Then will 1 The violet, though herself should die, : Hath songs to keep her living still; The laureates of the daffodil Fill half the painted books of song; And, all the perfumed summer long, For every magic hour she blows, A thousand minstrels hath the rose. 26763 Ah! what a pampered state is their Nursed hy soft rains and April airs Spoiled darlings of the earth and sky; Whilst thou in fetid swamps must Outcast from kindness and from f Banned hy an evil-smelling name. Yet, who as thou, when all is dreai The dark beginning of the year, Lifts up so brave a torch on high; In boggy woodlands, black with mire, Leaping with sudden urns of fire, The only brightness in the world, And not another leaf uncurled In all the landscape far or near; Of all the glories of the year The mocked resplendent pioneer Richard le Gallienne. A Hot-Headed Youth ‘OU see, he had a lantern jaw to be- gin with lit up! a burning glance, and then, blazing with And so his whole face His cheeks flamed, he gave a he admin- || Touches the Spot Luden’s prevent that little irritation from becoming a big one. Give quick relief from soreness, dryness, throat strain. No narcotics, no coloring Sold everywhere in the Luden yellow sanitary packest Wm. H, Luden, Reading, Pa. LUDENS MENTHOL COUGH DROP comicbooks.com