This week, we were supposed to look around the MJP for an interesting piece relating to suffrage and other women's issues during World War I. During my search, I found quite an intriguing illustration in the October/November issue of The Masses, an American journal that was published monthly from 1911 through 1917, whose editors were brought up on charges of obstruction of conscriptment by federal prosecutors. This illustration, which is found on page 4 of this issue, depicts Atlas, the titan, holding the world on his back. However, the earth is plagued by smoke and explosions, and leaking oil all down Atlas' back. Atlas, described by the caption as a "mere man," looks towards a woman of equal size and stature and tells her "this [damned] thing is getting too hot and heavy and slippery for [him] to handle alone" and that she needs to help him out. I find this depiction fascinating, as it calls out the equally titanic stature of man and woman with regards to the history of the world, as well the hubris of men for thinking they carry the wieght of the world solely on their shoulders. This also relates to the topic of suffrage because, as the debate was raging, the illustration highlights the fact that men are only considering the possibility of letting women help run the world and government when the planet is already past saving. Man's hubris made it so the world was in the midst of a suicidal conflict before men could swallow their pride and cede some power to the women. However, as the curt tone of this caption conveys, it's still the woman's fault for not jumping in earlier upon seeing the man needed her help. Atlas sounds like a husband who is mad his wife is not helping him carry a cooler into the house, even though he strongly denied he ever needed help in the first place.