Life, 1919-08-28 · page 9 of 40
Life — August 28, 1919 — page 9: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains three separate satirical pieces: 1. **"On Guard" (top photograph)**: Depicts people fishing and swimming in a stream while a cowboy stands watch. The caption suggests humorous vigilance against something. 2. **"High Lights" (left column)**: A cartoon showing a duck, with a quote from "Constable Duck" mocking Prohibition enforcement. The joke appears to reference how Prohibition laws created absurd situations, with the duck's dialogue playing on the contradiction between official policy and practical reality. 3. **"The Freedom of Prayer" and "What Name, Please?" (right columns)**: These discuss Senate decisions regarding prayer and shipping board ship-naming, with gentle political commentary about Republican support for prayer and debate over naming large vessels. The overall tone is light satirical commentary on contemporary American politics and social issues of the Prohibition era.
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ON GUARD High Lights “] CAN'T see that Prohibition has benetited anyone.” “Well, gaze on Professor Splint over there. Before Prohibition he couldn't support his family; now he has in- vented a family still that brings him in thousands.” able Duck s VLL SURELY HAVE TO TAKE THOSE FEL- Lows IN, HERE'S UNIVERSAL PROHIBITION JUST COME IN, AND THEY SIT OUT THERE CALLING FoR A “JUG-0'-RUM! JUG-0'- kum!" The Freedom of Prayer The Senate has decided t interfered with —Nev its prayer must not be HIS is decidedly encouraging, all churchmen should take notice. Now that the Senate has got religion, any thing is likely to happen. Mr. Borah gelist, or Billy Sunday a senator y become an evan On the face of it, it is an important step. A man always fights better once he has said his prayers. The Senate is only following. the precedent of the Pilgrim Fathers, who fell first upon their knees, then upon the Indians and finally upon each « One trusts that those who voted for the Eighteenth ment had no hand in this measure. But even that 1 he overlooked if only we were certain that the Republicans are whole-hearted in their support of undisturbed prayer What Name, Please? HOSE two huge ships our Shipping I vard prop what shall we call them? Whopper and Buster? Mammoth and Mastodon? Behemoth and Megatherium? AWFORD. The golfiac looks happy along with his bag of clubs slung over his s CRABSHAW I've noticed that myself. He's guilty look he had last season, as if everyone rega as a slacker. comicbooks.com