Life, 1919-05-08 · page 46 of 46
Life — May 8, 1919 — page 46: what you’re looking at
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This page satirizes **Albert Burleson**, President Wilson's Postmaster General, under the headline "The Make-Up of LIFE Under Complete Burleson Control." The text lists what would supposedly comprise that issue: cartoons praising Post Office efficiency (with allegorical figures), jokes from postal clerks, editorial pages by Burleson himself, four photographs of him, and numerous advertisements for grape juice and tobacco-cure treatments—the final items parodying Prohibition-era moralism. The satire targets Burleson's power over the postal system and his reputation for censoring publications deemed seditious during WWI (the references to "those who dare to think for themselves" and mentions of George Creel's propaganda suggest wartime control). The exaggerated list—multiple photographs, hymns to Prohibition, treatments for tobacco—ridicules what the magazine sees as excessive self-promotion and moral grandstanding by a bureaucrat wielding significant government authority.
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