Life, 1919-03-20 · page 40 of 44
Life — March 20, 1919 — page 40: what you’re looking at
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This page contains **primarily advertisements and satirical commentary** rather than a unified political cartoon. The main editorial content is "Projected History," a satirical piece imagining post-WWI idealism. It mocks the League of Nations and progressive reformers who believed a crusade would make "the world safe for infancy" through child-labor abolition and birth control. The satire is that these well-intentioned reformers grew up, discovered their covenant hadn't secured lasting peace, and found themselves opposed by youthful idealists—reversing their own earlier positions. It's a cynical commentary on how wartime idealism fails to produce permanent change. "His Probable Action" humorously imagines returning soldiers becoming farmers and accidentally outranking their former commanders through social awkwardness. The page is otherwise dominated by **product advertisements**: Stromberg carburetors, Zymole Trokey throat lozenges, Bacchus cigars, and others—typical of Life's revenue model.
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