Life, 1913-06-05 · page 40 of 52
Life — June 5, 1913 — page 40: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **Swiss tourism advertising** for the 1914 Swiss National Exhibition, with one small satirical cartoon embedded. The cartoon shows a "Bank Robber (reading)" examining a document. The caption reads: "It is quite evident that the robbery was the work of one of the cleverest criminals in the country. Gee! That's the kind of deduction that makes a guy proud of his profession." **The joke**: A criminal is reading a police report about a robbery and smugly praising the investigator's "clever deduction"—when the deduction is so obvious it's worthless. The satire targets **incompetent detective work**: the investigator states the obvious (a "clever criminal" committed a clever crime) and presents it as profound analysis. The robber's pride in being called "one of the cleverest" while reading such vapid reasoning mocks both criminal vanity and police incompetence. This is gentle, timeless humor about bureaucratic foolishness rather than topical political satire.
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