Life, 1919-07-24 · page 14 of 40
Life — July 24, 1919 — page 14: what you’re looking at
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**Top Section - "Europe's Bad Circulation":** This discusses Mrs. Vanderlip's book about Europe's post-war collapse, using a metaphor of civilization as a machine requiring "circulation" (credit and economic flow). The satire critiques those who don't understand that economic systems are interdependent—people expect cultural arts to continue while governments default on debts, which is portrayed as naive. **Middle Sections:** - "Membership of the Typical Golf Club" is a humorous list of stereotypical club members - "Submitted" contains a brief anecdote about courtroom behavior - "An Early Love Story" depicts a humorous exchange between Adam and Eve about rib-giving **Bottom Cartoon:** "Some People Look Well in a Bathing Suit" shows seven figures in various body types wearing swimwear, satirizing 1920s beach fashion and body consciousness.
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Membership of the Typical Golf Club HE man who joined because he likes the country. The woman who thought it would help her socially. The business man who is always too tired to play. The quartette of bridge players The young men who inhabit the piazzas. The ladies who play clock golf, The father of the children playing on the home green. The man who comes to interview his locker. The man who comes to play golf. Submitted FTER a young lawyer had talked nearly five hours to a jury, who felt like lynching him, his opponent, a grizzled old veteran, arose, looked sweetly at the judge, and said: “Your Honor, I will follow the example of my young friend who has just finished, and submit the case with- out argument.” An Early Love Story Adam, darling? What is it, Eve, dearest? If you had had but one rib, would you have given it up for me? Eve: Europe's Bad Circulation M* VANDERLIP'S story of the present state of Europe (running in the Sunday Sun and also published as a book) describes remarkably how a civilization may collapse. Everybody knows that civilizations have collapsed, but not many people understand the processes. They do not realize how intricate a machine a civilization, with arts, manufactures, roads, ships and great cities, has to be. They do not see why people accustomed to the useful arts should cease to practice them merely because governments go bast and repudiate their debts, and credi to exist. They “When people have once had Ford cars, why should they stop having them merely because banks and credits, and such things, become a_ bit ranged?” But there are reasons; good ones We may not understand why a maz dies when his blood ceases to circulate, but most people will admit that he does Mr. Vanderlip, recounting what he saw and heard in his five months’ examination of Europe, makes you be- in to understand why a_ civilization dies when its circulation stops. That is the present trouble with Europe. Its circulation is extremely bad, especially in Eastern Europe. In Serbia, when the armistice began, there were nine locomotives. All over Ev- rope there is an enormous deal to do and an immense unemployment. Is France and Belgium, and more or less ceases would say disar- Pave Como SOME PEOPLE LOOK WELL 1N A BATHING SUIT comicbooks.comy