Life, 1928-11-09 · page 14 of 52
Life — November 9, 1928 — page 14: what you’re looking at
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This page features military humor from WWI-era Life magazine. The top cartoon satirizes the A.E.F. (American Expeditionary Forces) salute as ineffective for democracy. Middle panels mock officers absent from A.E.F. meals, allowing enlisted men to misbehave with an unexploded grenade—depicting soldiers as reckless without supervision. The "Memories" section profiles Private A.A. Wallgren, a Philadelphia soldier whose contributions to Life's humor column earned him recognition despite the government initially denying him a medal. The bottom cartoon depicts two Missouri soldiers testing a tin hat's durability by striking it with a bayonet, captioned as "not a feud or massacre"—satirizing soldiers' crude experimentation and enthusiasm, likely poking fun at rural recruits' unfamiliarity with military equipment.
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LIFE Bilite Satunins Demon of THe AE R,S.OS.— HIS SALUTE, WHICH WAS A FEARFUL “THING TD BEHOLD, MADE ont PEEL “THAT, HERE AT ANY RATE , AMERICA WAS DOING AGSOLUTELY NOTHING TD MAKE “THE WORLD GAFE FoR DEMOCRACY. Private A. A. Wactcren One day after the United States declared war on Germany, A. A. Wallgren left his desk in the sporting department of the Philadelphia “Public Ledger" and joined the Marines. He went to France in June, 1917, with the Fifth Marines. A year later, when the “Stars and Stripes” became the official journal of the A. E. F., Mr. Wall- gren (“Wally”) contributed to it the cartoons that made the doughboys laugh at themselec The U.S. Government realized that \ pen was mightier than any howitzer, an recognition of his distinguished services never gave him a medal. But every dou Gees were Conspicuous By “THER ABSENCE ON AE-F. MENUS, So WHENENER “THE Bot who fought either the Baitle of the Arg DISCOVERED A PLACE WHERS THE FRuiT OF THE HEN CoulD BE PROCURED “THEY the Battle of Paris, or both, knows Wally MADR THE MOST OF [T, AND Gor ALL ECCED UP AGAINST FuTuRe FAMINES. grateful to him. Mr. Wallgren, like Capt. Bairnsfather, is now @ regular contributor to Live. NoT VERY Muck) YeT- GNeE IT A Goo So! TNMY-SEe Wier LAY INNOCENT, THEY. SEC, HAS , ly acer val daa tn To - THis is NOT A FEUD,OR A MASSACRE - $sVust HE HAS BEEN SELLING COMTRIGUTED Goonies — 7 6 . AN UNEXPLODED GRENADE — THe Boys A QOUPLA LADs “ FROM MissouRI ” TESTING OUT THE ARR SIMPLY WILD WITH ENTHUSIASM « POSSIBILITIES OF THE FIRST “TIN HAT ISSUE - comicbooks.com