Life, 1919-10-09 · page 15 of 48
Life — October 9, 1919 — page 15: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
**Top Cartoon:** A man in a hat and coat stands among numerous parrots on pedestals, speaking with another man. The caption reads: "I'M NURSING ON EARTH AS YOU WANT SO MANY PARROTS FOR?" He replies: "I'M EXPERIMENTING WITH A PLAN TO USE THEM INSTEAD OF CARRIER PIGEONS TO DELIVER WIRELESS MESSAGES." **Satire Target:** This appears to mock impractical technological schemes or overly ambitious inventors of the era. The humor lies in the absurdity of replacing proven carrier pigeon communication systems with unreliable parrots—an obvious failure the inventor hasn't considered. **Bottom Image:** Shows a young boy presenting something to his mother indoors. **Caption:** "BRITAIN'S SON: 'SAY, MOTHER, DID GOD HAVE TO JOIN A UNION WHEN HE MADE THE EARTH?'" This satirizes labor union politics, likely referencing contemporary labor disputes in Britain or America.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
BUT WHAT ON IMENTING WITH AKTH DO Vor \ PLAN TO USE VERBAL WANT 50 MANY PARKOTS FOK THEM INSTRAD OF CARRIPR pIOFe MESSAGES,” ‘ance, and « starving salesman can't get orders He doesn’t dare inet ideriul se my salary she I Just as T was think ne what she Yes, dear can help us has his headq and I wrote ig in that solved our as he expects to be investigated himself by the Besides, he | govern had done, 1 could nent ras a strike on. Petunia is certainty she said a letter t This is written him Sims A marry dd Dr vn man whe vishes wish cry important should get hing is +o high nnot do it true. It is wonderful. This Drak Mavas: May I harming note has given inc ure going to he am mphasize my approval of the an only be made better by rdially getting elie ne, ¢ and Wocourse the fetter dida’t do-it say it happened ound we'd He Hit vense of ha vad cnough for us versonally to do with it Then | sol ailroad nereased right along, That, Petunia’: father, however set him n the funch- vanted to ap separately » MOTHER, ravel, anyw . HE MAD DID Gob HAVE TO J tell us sincerely K an administration without mad te Apeet to wniderstand, will net wagon fe throw up my hands, scarcely world whe ngton, So [hay will be all right n love with me somarry him [t married. But every am therefore writ what do. T scems too wniswer lot express the neour: meether fireetly something ny salary gran 1 shall always © with comicbooks.com