Life Magazine – August 16, 1917 (# 1816) – Our Navy

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Cover : Lady peace looking over sailing ships in a battle, “A toast to the Navy : Our Navy – as it was, is now, and ever shall be, – victorious,” art by Angus MacDonall.

– Full page color ads for Michelin tires (art by Arthur N Edrop), Willy Knight (blue car in night scene with Chinese lanterns, not signed), Pall Mall cigarettes.
– Full page black and white ads for Torbensen Internal-gear Truck Drive (with nice art of a newspaper delivery truck), Duratex upholstery (with photo of young boy and his dog playing inside a car), American Chain Company (tire chains), Republic Tires, AutoStrop Safety Razor (with photos including military men shaving in a river), Tuxedo tobacco (How do you know it is a good melon?), Marathon Tire and Rubber.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Raymond Crosby (Is no news good news? … probably reading casualty lists), Victor C. Anderson (When a man’s single he lives at his ease,” man mending his own trousers.), Angus MacDonall (Hewing their way, Father and Son), Charles Broughton (Ostrich about to eat German war souvenirs), Charles Dana Gibson (The end of the ninth inning (Uncle Sam and President Woodrow Wilson on one team, German leader on the other), Charles Forbell (Wouldn’t this be fun?).
– Cute little artwork by C. Barnes (probably Culmer Barnes), Our Pekingese Home Defense.
– Two page centerspread art by Harrison Cady, Reflections, Germans marching in force to Paris, retreating in defeat to Berlin.
– Small photos of French war orphans : Simone Allanet (Baby 134), Henriette Boussant (1439) and mother, Bernardette and Jeanne Schroder, (474, 475, and their mother and brother, Raymond Marguie (170) and his sister Simone.
– Some current events include : Verboten to talk of Peace; It is suspected that the Kaiser is bluffing; Bankrupt nations before this have put up formidable fights; The military draft; Negroes have entered the northern labor market and the I.W.W. has seen its chance to make trouble and has tried not to miss its opportunity.
– Quote from the editor’s column, “Civilization consists a good deal of accumulated wealth; of accumulation, that is, of the works of man. If destruction is so great in any region that life cannot go on there in reasonable likeness to what it was before, the civilization of that region is suspended, and unless it gets helps it will retrograde.”
– And much, much more.