Life, 1919-06-05 · page 10 of 46
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The main illustration depicts a figure in formal attire and hat, gazing skyward at a flock of birds in formation. The caption reads "AH RECKON YO' ALL WON'T CARE FO' THE NO'THEN STATES," employing a Southern dialect. This appears to be commentary on Southern attitudes toward the North during the post-WWI period. The lower cartoon shows a family scene with the caption questioning when a "little brother Jane will be old enough to vote," likely referencing voting rights debates of the era. The "Sloppy Business" article criticizes post-war military demobilization challenges and inefficiency in civilian logistics. The page satirizes regional divisions, military-to-civilian transition problems, and social attitudes of the 1920s American South.
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978 and she got in with both feet, and now tion which dy under forty has a new topic of cony ranks first with every! years of a avades the dis- course of the elders. And the same topic takes first place all over the rest of the country, and when the whole of a country talks about the same thing in very much the same way and from th same viewpoint, that country has pretty well got together. And now in the cotton country, and Bir- 2 is an iron foun- there are cotton mills galore mingham in Alab dry, and coal and and Kentucky has gone dry, and if the old Dixie came back she where she was, just as we all do when and stop to think a railroads abound, Tennessee mines iron ore, and would wonder we look about minute. Already she has much mixed up with the rest of the country, and the process seems to go Education is nd mountain come to he very on with growing strength, crackers” reaching her feudists; her negroes are spreading, especially to the big northern cities; her more enterprising white folks have not scorned to do the same, nor failed to gather due fruits of their boldness. Everywhere the S come. Everywhere they are known as good people and handsome, and pleas- ant. M southerners are wel- “ETHELBERT, DO YOU REALIZE THAT IN TWENTY YEARS FROM THE THIRTIETH OF NEXT MONTH OUR LITTLE DOROTHEA JANE WILL BE OLD ENOUGH TO VOTE?” Sloppy Business AYBE the world is getting sloven- the men who have been in the army are more intolerant of those who don’t obe: At any rate, men just out of the service complain that it’s impossible to ly; and maybe, again, ders. get things done the way they want them done any more. Articles bought for delivery in ten days are delivered in two months; goods ordered to be sent in a certain way are sent in an- other way; everybody makes mistakes. In the army, only those at the top are privileged to make mistakes; the rank and file obeys orders or gets into trouble. It will be interesting to see “AH RECKON YO’ ALL WON’T CARE FO’ THE NO'THE'N STATES whether the present wail against sloppy business will disappear when our en tire army has found its way back into civilian life once more. If not, the in- sane asylums will have a gay time tak- ing care of the people who have four it impossible to get anything donc right. ILLIAM HOHENZOLLERN has just had four hundred thousand dollars advanced to him to pay his board. He ought to be glad that he not staying at an American summer resort. “WES, he made his money in oil.” Salad or Texas?”