Life — April 3, 1919 — page 20: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

**Top Cartoon ("First Profiteers"):** This depicts soldiers and officials surrounding an automobile, with the caption "The great war is over. Now for the problems of peace! Eh, what?" The satire targets post-WWI profiteering—suggesting that those who made money from the war are now shifting to peacetime opportunities. The car and well-dressed figures imply wealthy businessmen ready to exploit new economic conditions. **"The Candle" Poem:** This sentimental verse by Mabel Haughton Collyer celebrates a small candle that helped save soldiers' lives during wartime, contrasting with the cynical profiteering above it. **Bottom Cartoon:** A domestic scene showing a dog near a fireplace with the caption about keeping feet off the ground, seemingly unrelated to war themes—possibly providing comic relief or serving as an advertisement. The page juxtaposes wartime sacrifice with peacetime greed, a common post-1918 satirical theme in American magazines.