Luxuries versus lifeboats / Kep., Political Cartoon

Illustration shows an ocean liner sinking amid icebergs with many passengers jumping into the sea for lack of enough lifeboats, as a few lifeboats loaded with passengers row clear of the ship.

Caption: The Grim Spectre Why all this hue and cry about lifeboats? Have you not your veranda and Parisian cafes, palm-garden, squash-court, gymnasium, swimming-pool, Turkish baths, and a la carte restaurant?
Illus. in: Puck, v. 71, no. 1836 (1912 May 8), centerfold.
Copyright 1912 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.