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This page is primarily **advertising and humor**, not political satire in the traditional sense. The main advertisement promotes **Western train travel** through the United States Railroad Administration, encouraging summer tourism to national parks and resorts. The illustration shows well-dressed tourists enjoying mountain scenery. The humor pieces include: 1. **"Up Above the World So High"**: Mocks **aviator jargon** from World War I. A pilot ("Chevalier Bayard of the Aviation Corps") uses absurdly colorful flying slang—"pancaked," "washed out," "joy stick," "rudder"—to describe a crash landing. The joke ridicules how military aviation has introduced bizarre new vocabulary into American English. 2. **"Well Met"**: A dialogue satirizing the **health-conscious fad** of the 1920s, where a person obsessively avoids everything—smoking, drinking, exercise, sitting, standing—claiming each is dangerous. The "Spirit of the Time" character embodies this era's contradictory wellness obsession. 3. **"Appalling Prospect"**: Brief joke about **President Wilson's European travel expenses** being cheaper than domestic travel. The page reflects 1920s American humor and advertising culture.

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Summer Excursion Fares To National Parks and Resorts of the West Here are lakes and streams, for fishing. Here you can climb sn capped mountains, descend canyon trails, or bathe in the blue Pacific. Here, too, you can “‘rough it, ”” off the beaten path. Your outing in the West also may include glaciers and geysers — big trees and petrified forests — Indian pueblos and prehistoric ruins. Fine motor roads everywhere, and resort hotels. Complete information, including illustrated bookleta, may be obtained free. Ask local ticket agent to help you plan your trip—or ag ravel Bureau, O@ice—or address the nearest ply to the nearest Consolidated Ticket advising what National Parks, or what section of the Rockies, the Pacifie Coast, or the Northern Lakes you are interested in. -UNITED-STATES - RAILROAD -ADMINISTRATION- Travel Bureau 143 Liberty St., New York City Up Above the World So High WevE stood for baseball slang from “skidding into second on a greased hook slide” to “picking the old apple for the circuit,” and now comes Chevalier Bayard of the Avia- tion Corps, the gallant gentleman with- out fear and without reproach, and twists our language into a_pretzel- shaped something like this: “The bus lost her flying speed, and 646 Transportation Bidg., Chicago Travel Bureau 602 Healey Building, Atlanta like a dud I pulled the joy stick back and kicked on rudder. I flopped into a tail spin, and just flattened out over the trees, I pancaked on the tree tops, and completely washed out the machine in a jolly crash!” AOLO made his first big hit with Francesca da Rimini by presenting her with an annual subscription to Lire. Send for a Complete sstalogudt MASONIC Book Jewelry and | REDDING & CO, Publishers and Manufa:curers Dept. L. 200 Fifth Avenue, New: Well Met Never smoke.” ‘ocktail ? “Don't use 'em.” “Ball, then?” “Never indulge.” “Something soft, perhaps?” “Thanks, I never drink.” “How about a spin in the car?” “No; gave it up. Doctor's orders.” romp in the yard with the kids, then?” to “Pardon me; romping is unsafe for J g the young and fatal to the old.” k “Let's sit down.” a “ Sitting is unhealthy.” w “Stand, then.” “Standing weakens the spine.” ta “In Heaven's name, who are you J > and how do you manage to kill time before dinner?” demanded the Man Who Has Never Progressed. “T am the Spirit of the Time.” re- a plied his guest. “I do not have to a kill time before dinner, because | have if forgotten how to live.” i h . 0 Appalling Prospect d RIGGS: I understand that the ex- J ® penses of President Wilson's trip B abroad run up into millions. h Griccs: But think of how much] worse it would have been if he'd spent J ¢ the same time traveling around the United States. nm te =§ o in SOLOPOK\(: ing, etc., 5c. Get a board. , SOLOPOKO COMPANY, Box 1654, Wasbingtoa, D ieto ever It and fatn Sure Relig ELL-ANS B FOR INDIGESTIO comicbooks.