Life, 1919-09-18 · page 12 of 48
Life — September 18, 1919 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
**The Main Cartoon ("The Dog: Why Not Muzzle Us Both?")** This sketch shows a well-dressed man in a top hat confronting a scruffy dog near a church window. The caption's cynical question suggests the artist is satirizing hypocrisy—specifically that humans are as uncontrolled or dangerous as animals, yet only the dog gets muzzled. The implied criticism likely targets social regulations or government restrictions that target lower classes while leaving the wealthy (represented by the gentleman) unaccountable. **"Another Thing That Has Lost Its Pull"** A corkscrew illustration with no visible cork attached appears to mock something that's become useless or ineffective—the caption suggests this may reference a failed social tool or abandoned practice, though the specific reference remains unclear without additional historical context.
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490 Some Open Letters Lord Northcliffe. M DEAR SIR: Would it be pos- sible for you to come over and run this country for a little while? The attention of our people has been so distracted from baseball and the movie: by the demands of labor, the high of living and the gyrations of the government that it is getting on their nerves, and they undoubtedly need a We had hoped that the ad- ministration would he along until the next presidential clec- tion, but, even with the help of our newspapers, the effort to keep the facts vacation. able to worry from the people has been very wear- ing. As for your compensation, you can take what there is left after we have paid the bills. We are desperate, and you might as well have the money as the profiteers—assuming there will be any. If you like. Mr. Hearst can run Great Britain while you are here We will do our best to get along with- out him, even if he takes along Mayor n to help. Let him arrange the ir with Lloyd George. Hoping to hear from you hy return mail, Wearily yours, Lire To Henry Ford, Y DEAR MR. FORD: In ex- pressing to you my condolences and sympathy for the unfortunate situation in which you find yourself, permit me to offer you as much relief as possible by stating that you are not alone. To have bought your own opin- ANOTHER THING THAT HAS LOST ITS PULL (Udit, nvicted on the stand of not wing what they fairly reprehensible. But even majority are with you, for the majority, for only two cents a day, even were, seems to be after all, succeed very well in buying their opin- ions from the newspapers, the only dif- ference between them and you being that they haven't enough money to make the affair an exclusive one. Not to know the difference between Bene- dict Arnold and Arnold Bennett, or be- tween the words mobile and mobilize, is pathetic only because it has been made Ignorance of history or litera- a crime, remark that one public. lure or art is not necessari Burke's cannot bring an indictment whole people would be . Dismiss this whole unfortunate matter, Mr. Ford. When you remember that your son Edsel did all he could to keep us out of war by not otherwise disquali ing into it himself, I have no doubt t you will begin to feel much better And let your motto be, Millions for lack of sense, but not one for the Chugfully yours, Lire. cent Tribune. comicbooks.comm