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# Analysis The page contains two distinct elements: **Top cartoon ("Gee-Whizdom"):** An illustration by Gluyas Wilkinson showing an elderly hostess horrified by a child's blunt comment. The joke plays on generational differences in manners—the child's honest observation ("you've been spoiled") violates social convention. This reflects 1920s anxieties about changing parent-child dynamics and the perceived decline of Victorian propriety among younger generations. **Main article:** "How to Tell the Sermon from the Jazz" by Walter Prichard Eaton. This satirical piece addresses early 20th-century cultural anxiety about jazz music's growing influence. The author humorously compares jazz's "wave lengths" to church sermons, suggesting jazz was becoming as culturally dominant and spiritually compelling as religious instruction—a concern held by cultural conservatives who viewed jazz as morally corrupting.

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a n by GILBERT WILKINSON. GEE-WHIZDOM Elderly Hostess—Really, I am horrified! No child has ever spoken to me like that in all my life! Betty—Exactly; that’s the way you've been spoiled! How to Tell the Sermon from the Jazz by Walter Prichard Eaton E ARE meditating the composi- wave length for the jazz, and another men and women truly desire great leader- \ V tion of anew book of: refer » wave length for the lecture, and another — ship, spiritual leadership, ision they to that indis- ave length for the service, and the wou ave fulfille - 1 companion Pe | pensable 1 ideasting stations are not alike in Well, it was rather confusing, and not elengths. Yet here he was, all tuned — exactly conducive to sustained devotional and getting a jazz band in- attention. It was almost as distracting thing, } tid, ought to be as a new hat used to be on the handsome ta We mildly suggested that alto in my boyhood, when the choir sat y smoking in the Berkshire Hills aly try going to church in’ at the front of the church, facing the ed to a minister expounding the person instead Pittsburgh, but that i I saw, i ash, the great a, We find church didn’t seem to satisfy him. So we be- pleasant oceupa- came more technical (this is not the nd when we editorial we, but stands, if we must be ut any point by accurate, for a boy of prodigious knowl- tion of edge concerning electricity which he has Personality Through the Empyrean.” As achieved with far less effort on the part hope to get to it before the American ve were listening to the Pittsburg of his instructors than his knowledg + Magazine does. We have all heard, no son, the telephone rang. It was of Latin!), and having told our neighbor doubt, of the well-known humorous vor in the next town. how we eliminated the jazz from the speaker who was engaged to supply fif- “what wave service, went back to pick up the threads teen minutes of mirth-provoking banter, of the ministerial discourse. and reached the broadcasting station to find himself alone in a room with a round black disk for audience. He at once be- Tell the I ature guide, “How t Wild) Flowers from the Birds. 1 “How to 1 : ide volume will be ¢: Sermon from the evenin going a comparative tion when we can smc can terminate the sermor the easy (and unobtrusive) of ver from our ¢ removing a rect he demanded, the service He had, it appeared, been sns ND this is what we heard: ¢ “Lead, Kindly Light” out of the encircling 4% the law of spirit supply came as humorous as a French statesm: gloom, when his somewhat vicarious de- mand is seen to operate in—bzz, 2, discussing Soviet Russia, and those in votions had been rudely interrupted, the —and he says to me, Do you know Isabel? charge had to send out into the highways tune suddenly changing to “I Got Those Isabel ‘who? And he and byways and gather in a dozen peopl MM Radio Blues,” or something of the sort, ary ona bicycle. Ai who stood facing him, beyond the trans- vhich was, to a devout soul, rather dis. the cut-up?—bzz, bzz, bzz—tum-te-tum- mitter, before he would consent to utter turbing. There is, he had been told, one tum-te-tum-tum—bzz, bzz, bzz—when a sound. In order to be funny, he said, ‘ifthly, 3 comicbooks.com