Life, 1919-03-20 · page 28 of 44
Life — March 20, 1919 — page 28: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three distinct satirical pieces: **"A Question"** (left column): A poem about human nature's hypocrisy—how people eagerly remind you of their correct predictions but never acknowledge when *you* were right. **"Chancellor Jim Day"**: An editorial attack on Syracuse University's Chancellor Jim Day, a Methodist minister who opposed the League of Nations post-WWI. The satire highlights the contradiction: Day censored pro-League professor Flick from speaking, yet took money from oil magnate John D. Archbold. The piece mocks his selective principles—he's against "foreign" involvement in American affairs while apparently accepting wealthy donors' influence. **"War's Effect on Landscape Gardening"** (right side): Humorous illustrations showing how wartime fortifications are becoming fashionable home features—"bomb-proof pergolas," camouflaged houses, trench driveways, and sandbag fences. This satirizes how civilians adopted military aesthetics during/after WWI. **"Method"** (bottom): A brief domestic comedy about a six-year-old boy realizing he can manipulate a girl by teasing her, since she'll go elsewhere if he stops. The page reflects post-WWI American anxieties about foreign entanglement and militarization of civilian life.
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464 A Question OW often have my kindly friends, (When Fate has dealt me some shrewd blow), Recalling random odds and ends Of counsel, cried: “I told you so!” But when ‘twas I who warned, and the Who heeded not, and came to woe, 1 wonder why they'd never say: “That's right, old chap, you told me Chancellor Jim Day HERE is no brighter star in the constellation of the Old Order than Chancellor Jim Day of Syracuse Universit He is a fine man of the kind. No one need be in any doubt of what he thinks on any subject. He was against Germany in the war with both feet Now he is against the League of Na- tions with like completeness League of Nations fabricated by foreigners,” he called it on February 26th, and de- clared that if the Senate did not smite it, we must get another Senate. Nat- urally he forbade Professor Flick, ad- vocate of the League, to discuss the subject at a students’ mass meeting. So the World says. Chancellor Jim is a Methodist min- ister, and was once chosen bishop of the Methodist Church, but resigned BURLESONIZED LIFE: War's Effect on Landscape Gardening THE TRENCH DRIVEWAY WILL BE THE LAST WoRD John D, Archbold of the Standard Oil Company was a lavish patron of Syra- cuse University, and possibly the Chan- cellor was acceptable to him. But that he should be acceptable to Methodists is funny, and yet Syracuse University is rated as a Methodist institution Fikst Peace ours is certainly pretty strenu- Devecate: This work ous, isn’t it? Seconp P. D.: Yep. But I am in hopes it will let up soon, so that Presi- dent Wilson will be able to pay a little visit to the United States. “What for?” A CUNNING BOMB-PROOF PERCOLA Method ONALD, aged six, has made a good beginning on understa He was playing the eternal feminine with little Eleanor recently, when his mother heard him tea mercifully. stop wg the girl ur “ Donald, T want that little girl Aren't you ashamed of yourself?” “Well, I've got to tease repli “What an idea!” said the mother “Well, that’s so,” said Donald, “ an’ she wants to be teased. If I quit teasin’ her she'll go play with some other little boy.” She said: you to teasing i the hoy