Life, 1919-03-06 · page 12 of 42
Life — March 6, 1919 — page 12: what you’re looking at
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**Top Cartoon ("Across the Hot Sands"):** A man in business attire rides a camel through a desert, holding an umbrella and a U.S.A. banner. This appears to satirize American commercial or diplomatic expansion into foreign (likely Middle Eastern) territories—depicting the businessman as unprepared for harsh conditions yet persistently advancing American interests abroad. **Bottom Cartoon:** Titled "Awful Dilemma Forced Upon a Prominent Visiting Prohibitionist by Inhabitants of Cactus Center, Ariz.," this mocks Prohibition advocates visiting the American Southwest. A well-dressed prohibitionist faces a dilemma presented by locals, likely suggesting the difficulty of enforcing temperance laws in frontier regions where alcohol consumption remained culturally entrenched. Both cartoons use geographic displacement to satirize American ideological conflicts.
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