Life — April 10, 1919 — page 9: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# "Alcoholic Millennium" and "The Passing of the Eclipse" **Top article & sketch**: Satirizes Prohibition arguments. The piece mocks the logic that removing poor people's access to alcohol will make them rich—if they can't drink, they won't need money for booze. It then absurdly extends this: rich people can drink as much as they want, so they'll become poor. The cartoon shows an older man contemplating this paradox while younger figures socialize in the background. **Bottom cartoon**: "The Passing of the Eclipse" features two caricatured heads labeled "Base-Ball" and "Mars," with accompanying text about postmaster Burleson removing Clarence H. Mackay and questioning who will remove "Burleson"—likely political criticism of government overreach or postal censorship during WWI era.