Life, 1919-04-10 · page 9 of 46
Life — April 10, 1919 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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**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.
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hie rages oy IN THE GOOD NEW TIMES “MY OLD KENTUCKY Home” Alcoholic Millennium PROHIBITION may he all very well, but there is a simpler and more effective way. Inerease the price of drink until none but the rich can ford it. This will deprive the poor man of his booze. Unjust discrimination Not at all. Drink, we are told. s the cause af all poverty. Therefore take away the poor van's drink and he will be poor no longer, He will become ich. When he is rich he can afford 10 start drinking. On the other hand, the rich man can drink all he wants But drink will ruin him. He will become poor, and have to quit drinking. So it is fair to.all, The poor grow rich, drink, are made oor; stop drinking, again become rich;-again drink, again krow poor; stop drinking once more, become rich once irink once more, and grow poor once more—you see nw it goes officers are necded to enforce the laws, and the profits f the liquor traffic will pay all our taxes. What chance has Prohibition against this plan if properly resented ? ECRETARY BAKER declares that he will not enter into any controversy with Senator Chamberlain. Once was probably enough. pes™ ASTER BURLESON having removed Clarence H. Mackay from the Postal Telegraph, the question is: Who will now remove Burleson? THE PASSING OF THE ECLIPSE Old Sol Baseball; weit, woys, WERE TAM AGAIN! comicbooks.com