Life, 1918-12-26 · page 17 of 35
Life — December 26, 1918 — page 17: what you’re looking at
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The top cartoon depicts a chaotic scene labeled "Oh, Joy! 'Der Tag'!" ("The Day!"—German for the anticipated German victory). A grotesque figure representing Germany rides in a cart pulled by dogs, accompanied by demonic figures holding weapons and a scythe, while an eagle (likely representing the Kaiser or Prussian militarism) trails behind on a chain. This is anti-German wartime propaganda satirizing German imperial ambitions. The text below discusses the Jewish Relief Fund, which had raised most of its five-million-dollar goal to aid war victims. The article notes controversy: East Side Jewish newspapers emphasized Polish pogroms (violent attacks on Jews) to solicit donations, but Polish sources denied these atrocities, attributing them to German and Bolshevik propaganda. Life urges caution about unverified reports pending an investigation. The page also mentions the Red Cross "Roll Call" campaign seeking one hundred million new members at one dollar each, using Fifth Avenue as promotional backdrop. The overall theme addresses charitable fundraising and wartime propaganda credibility during the post-WWI period.
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have not yet felt the need of the airship mail that Mr. Burleson is playing with HE Jews, at this writing, have got four-fiiths of their five-million dol- r Jewish Relief Fund, and will get he rest, and will find good use for it ten times over, but there is com- aint that the agitating East Side Jew- sh papers have leaned too hard on ‘olish pogroms in the raising of it. If one goes to local sources of Polish in- ermation he gets denials of almost all he Polish pogrom stories and is told that they are German and Bolshevist propaganda, The Associated Press re- ports these pogrom stories. Its latest dispatch from Warsaw, dated Decem- ber 13th, tells of several on the author- ity of “ Noah Prilucki, a leader of the Jewish National party.” who “had knowledge” of some, and had “it is stated " am informed” author- ity for others. tan Amsterda “on, yoy! ‘DER TAG*!” port, dated the next day, said that Poland had severed relations with Ger- many becatsse in occupied provinces the German authorities were acting con- trary to Polish interests, and working with the Bolsheviki The Polish pogrom stories are dis- puted. Don’t trust them until you know, which may be when a commis- sion that is in the making, and is to have Americans on it, has investigated and reported. But all that docs not affect the fact that there are great numbers of war- harried and distressed Jews in Europe, whom the Jewish Relief Fund will help. Whether these Polish pogrom stories are true or not there are Jews enough in trouble and that need relief ROOPS come in, otherwise, day or two, and All the pa wounded and by the thousand every with lively headlines and with war stories. There has been another Red Cross drive called a Roll Call, with a purpose to get about a hundred million new Red Cross members at a dollar apiece. Tt made a picture galler: in of Fifth Avenue, and again reminded citizens how hard it would have been to win the war without that open space in “AS TWAS SAYING WHEN DECLARED—"* comicbooks.com