Life, 1919-04-24 · page 40 of 46
Life — April 24, 1919 — page 40: what you’re looking at
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This story-cartoon satirizes hypocrisy about women's wartime contributions and voting rights. Willie cheats his younger brother Johnny out of credit for cherry-picking to earn bicycle money. When his mother punishes him for dishonesty, Willie's father responds by reading a newspaper article praising women's war work and suggesting they deserve the vote ("the ballot"). The satire's point: The father advocates rewarding women for their contributions while his own wife—who notes their substantial wartime efforts (surgical dressings, hospital garments)—sits before him having just disciplined their son for the exact dishonesty he implicitly endorses in politics. The implication is that men demand honesty from children but practice and accept it in public policy. This appears to mock both the hypocrisy of male voters and, possibly, the basis for granting women's suffrage.
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