Life — July 10, 1919 — page 24: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This 1919 satirical page mocks post-WWI events through seven cartoons: **Top row**: References the Peace Treaty being filed in Congressional records, with a "gong thrower" joke about anarchists/radicals. **"'Twxt the Devil and the Deep Sea"**: Depicts someone caught between competing pressures—likely regarding Bolshevism ("jump into Bolshevism") versus conservative opposition. **"Maine Puts Jamaica Ginger in the Whiskey Glass"**: Satirizes Prohibition enforcement, suggesting Maine's strict laws are being evaded. **Bottom cartoons**: Mock German officials ("Burgomaster of Berlin"), international tourism resuming after war, and English church smoking policies. The overall theme appears to be post-war chaos: anarchist threats, Prohibition's difficulties, European reconstruction, and social upheaval. The cartoons present these as humorous absurdities reflecting genuine contemporary anxieties about radicalism, law enforcement, and social order during the turbulent post-war period.