Life, 1918-01-17 · page 13 of 40
Life — January 17, 1918 — page 13: what you’re looking at
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**The Image:** A man stands on a rooftop observation platform with a telescope, spotting an airship flying over a cityscape. The satirical title is "The Stay-at-Home." **The Joke:** This cartoon mocks the contradiction between domestic restriction and technological ambition. The man is literally "staying at home" (remaining in his own city), yet modern aviation allows him to observe distant horizons without traveling—he's simultaneously grounded and reaching outward through technology. **Context:** Published during aviation's early era (when airships were cutting-edge), this reflects contemporary fascination with flight technology. The cartoon suggests that modern citizens could experience the world vicariously through mechanical observation rather than actual travel, a commentary on how technology was reshaping human experience and the meaning of "staying home."
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More About Kansas 'O the mayor of Topeka, Kansas, is attributed this enlightening infor- mation about the people of his own state: In Kansa “nut”? at- tains its richest, rarest flavor. It is a state in which petty personal prejudice is often exploited as a xreat moral issue. Narrownes: between the eyes has been so long and so often extolled hy the politicians and the press that there a the human © those who believe it to be THE STAY-AT-HOME a virtue. But a great majority of the people of the state are sound at the core. As a sample of Kansas “nut” legis- lation we have its statute prohibiting the sale of publications containing ad- vertisements of cigarettes. The Kan- sas City Post has tested this law in the courts, and Judge Pollock of the Fed. eral Court has just granted the Post a permanent injunction against the en- forcement of the law. That a Kansas City newspaper had the temerity to question the sanity of a Kansas law suggests a side query. Why. does Kan- sas City, which happens to be in Mis- souri and not in Kansas, retain the misleading and discrediting “ Kansas" in its title? One would imagine that it would prefer to name itself after something else than a state where the “nuts” seem to be in control of legis- lation and everything else. HE KAISER (as he faced the final punishment): My one regret is that T didn't have another mill lives to offer for my country. comicbooks.com