Life, 1920-07-01 · page 41 of 56
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This page contains a serious editorial essay alongside period advertising and a political cartoon. The **article** discusses WWI veterans returning home, defending the American Legion against criticism. The author argues service members deserve well-paying jobs and shouldn't be judged harshly for their organization's apparent selfishness, since "self-preservation is the first law of organization." The **cartoon** titled "When the Worst Comes to the Worst" shows two figures: a woman on the left holding a "Votes for Women" banner, and a man on the right in disheveled clothing. The joke appears to satirize women's suffrage advocates by suggesting that even in desperate times, they persist in demanding voting rights—implying this is an inconvenient or misplaced priority compared to other social concerns (possibly post-war recovery). The **advertisement** for Tiffany & Co. occupies the upper portion, emphasizing luxury jewelry and stationery sold through mail order from their Fifth Avenue location.
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Legion and the Service Men (Continued from page 20) | ice men who came home. Everybody | felt that the time of self-sacrifice had and that men were warranted in the most lucrative employment — | could find; and that has been very on government bureaus, which have tbeen able to pay very high wages nor ep their trained men. . . . . * . LL that is rather a sad story, but neither the service men nor the agion should be judged by present ap- ces, They did get something out the war, and people know they did. It come out in time. We may grumble it the bonus and the crude indiffer- to public welfare that that movement ses, but it remains that those mil- of men who wore khaki are the hope f the country. In a great emergency that ould show at once. Their mere exist- nce, knowing what they know, trained as le have been trained, makes the country fe, and it would not be safe without "Of bem. They are an immense potential ree. They helped our Uncle Sam to ow what he could do, and the exhibi- n that he was able to make will not be brgotten for a thousand years. Don't judge the service men too much Yq their organization. Remember that its ew \ embership includes only a small per- y pntage of them, and that of those whom does include, a large proportion may ssent from any of its policies. And "-fn't judge the organization too harshly war, CAUSE it seems to be selfish. Remember y hat self-preservation is the tirst law of |rganization, and that almost every or- janization sees a virtue in any form of klfishness that promises to increase its rength. Paris 25 RUE DE LA Pax E. S. M. TIFFANY & CO. JEWELRY SILVERWARE AND STATIONERY OF EXCEPTIONAL MERIT EFFICIENT SERVICE BY MAIL FIFTH AVENUE & 372! STREET NEw YORK Lonpon 221 REGENT STREET a vet? forked Lyfe of fo the other ent of hes waleh hein “WHEN THE WORST COMES TO THE worst” comicbooks.com