Life, 1919-11-13 · page 13 of 36
Life — November 13, 1919 — page 13: what you’re looking at
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**Top Cartoon ("Hurrah! I've Saved Two Cents!"):** A woman clutches flowers while exiting what appears to be a store with a "CLOSING SALE" sign. The satire mocks penny-pinching consumers—she's celebrating saving a trivial amount (two cents) while presumably spending money on flowers, missing the irony entirely. This critiques misguided consumer behavior and false economy. **Bottom Cartoon ("Needed: Er—Ah—I'd Like a Room with a Wife for Myself and Bath"):** A man at what appears to be a hotel desk mangles his request, accidentally asking for a "room with a wife" instead of a proper room. The joke relies on the verbal confusion and suggests either desperation or the absurdity of boarding-house accommodations. **Article Section:** Discusses Harvard Alumni Association opening an office to maintain graduate connections, noting some concern about institutional overreach.
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Anybody who tries to execute the people’s will és a politician, and without political organization and resulting politicians the people’s wil could not be executed nor even discovered. For the people’s will is a mighty nebulous thing, originating in discom- fort, developing in dissatisfaction, and culminating in mutiny. It is a sort of progressive disease, accom- panied often by spells of delirium in which the patiert wants to do things that are bad for him and has to be restrained. The good politician watches the patient, tries to under- stand what his ailment is, and when he reaches an opinion, adopts a line of treatment which he thinks will cure him and keep him well. But the fool politician is a bad doctor, who can’t see what’s the matter, but wants to keep his job and collect his fees, and insists that any patient who can’t get well on old-fashioned remedies and treatment, ought to die. Dr. Jacks’ objections apply very well to the fool politicians who want to shape the world to theories that have collapsed. Millions of people will share his feelings. But there must be politicians, just as there must be doctors, lawyers, miners, stevedores, editors and plumbers. There is a job for them that must be done. There must be statesmen, and as we so well know, the statesman is a glorious Newlywed: ER—AH—1I'D LIKE A ROOM WITH A WIFE FOR MYSELF AND BATH creature that emerges in due time from . the politician cocoon. Get a new line of politicians, Bro- ther Jacks, who will understand the world’s disease and give it the dope that it needs! And do not despair We shall have them; we are getting them. B.S. M. Alarming College Item HE papers report that the Harvard Alumni Association has opened an office in the Harvard Union to aid in keeping the University in closer touch with the graduates. With their university already touch- ing them for $15,000,000, this prospect of arrangements for a closer touch may seem to Harvard graduates rather ominous. comicbooks.com