Life, 1919-03-20 · page 15 of 44
Life — March 20, 1919 — page 15: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This editorial cartoon depicts a figure casting a large shadow of a noose—symbolizing execution or capital punishment. The scene shows what appears to be a condemned person being held or restrained, with a lamp below suggesting a prison or execution chamber setting. The cartoon likely critiques judicial executions or capital punishment as a systemic "crime" itself. The dramatic shadow effect emphasizes how the state's act of execution casts a dark moral shadow over society. Below, "Tempora Mutantur" (Latin: "times change") presents humorous verse about biblical figures (Moses, Joseph, Job) who endured hardship without modern frustrations—specifically, never having car troubles, a jab at contemporary automotive inconveniences.
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ANOTHER FISH STORY Jonah; I've, BEEN FORTY DAYS AND FORTY NIGHTS IN THAT WHALE’S BELLY. Solomon: NONSENSE. THAT'S NOT A WHALE; IT'S A U-BOAT, Your Safe-Deposit Box S your safe-deposit box overcrowded with Liberty bonds of small denomination? An excellent way to relieve the pressure is to use two hundred dollars of the four-and-a- quarter-per-cent. bonds to establish a Fresh Air Endow- ment. The method is explained below. It dedicates the bonds to a perpetual work of well-doing. From an anonymous donor Lire has received two hun- dred dollars in Fourth Liberty bonds to establish FRESH AIR ENDOWMENT NO, 26 In the name of P. J., Washington, D. C To establish a Fresh Air Endowment two hundred dollars in Liberty Loan 4}4-per-cent. bonds should be sent by registered mail to Lire’s Fresh Air Fund, Inc, 17 West Thirty-first Street, New York Cit The income from this amount provides that every summer, in perpetuity, a poor child will be sent from the slums of New York for a fortnight’s stay in the fresh air of the country. This work has now been carried on for thirty-one years, in which time more than forty thousand children have gained health and happiness from it. A Fresh Air Endowment may bear any designation its donor chooses. LOWED | THE SHADOW OF A CRIME Tempora Mutantur E honor humble Moses, meckest mortal ever seen— But he never got ten miles from town and out of gas- oline. \nd Joseph, kindly Joseph, bore not malice in his heart, But he never had two punctures less than half a mile apart ‘ te ct - “say! YOU'D BETTER COME OUT OF THAT, DON’T YOU And patient Job in silence bore the testings of the Lord— sicn?” How lucky he was never called upon to crank a Ford! Pup: OH, THAT'S ALL RIGHT, 1 CAN’T READ, comicbooks.com