Life, 1919-11-27 · page 8 of 36
Life — November 27, 1919 — page 8: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three distinct pieces of satire: 1. **"Good-bye, Suffragists!"** — Mocks the Woman Suffrage Association's expected dissolution after the suffrage amendment was ratified by thirty-six states. The author sarcastically suggests women will simply merge into existing male-dominated political organizations, and ironically notes that even Susan Anthony's soul won't find rest since women will finally vote. 2. **"On the Future Bread Line"** — A cartoon dialogue between a clerk and applicant, with a father advising his son that bad business decisions lead to hardship—a cautionary tale about trusts and failed business leadership. 3. **"Even Keeley's May Come Back"** and **"The Dog and the Shadow"** — References to the Keeley Cure (alcohol treatment facility) closing, warning that money and vice will persist despite prohibition.
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886 Good-bye, Suffragists! HE Woman Suffrage Association expects to go out of business as soon as the suffrage amendment been ratified by thirty-siL Carrie Chapman Catt says, and she ex he organization to dissolve at its last convention next February in Chicago. Perhaps it will provide for itself a sort of reincarnation by merging into the National League of Women Voters, but it is not disorderly to hope it will not, but that its members will go into the existing political organizations of men and punch them up to do better. If the Suffrage Association quits, the Anti association will doubtless quit also, leaving the world to fall back into its great primary division ales and females. That will be nd will remind us all pleasurably of old except that both kinds of people will vote n Mrs. Catt, reviewing the exploits of the great suffrage leaders, spoke of Susan Anthony as “that indomitable soul who has long been laid to res! she spoke inaccurately. It i of Susan Anthony that is laid at rest a , especially the most recent favor belief that her soul is working overtime probably on jobs of organization. Souls like hers are not at all likely to quit work On the Future Bread Line LERK: What are your credentials? Apriicant: I was once the head of a large mercantile business. Crerk (coldly); Well, we are feeding no one today but the former presidents of trusts. Father: NOW, MY SON, I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU SOML GOOD ADVICE SOME DAY YOU'LL WISH YOU HAD TAKEN IT. IT’S THE SAME ADVICE I WISH I HAD TAKEN WHEN MY DAD GAVE IT TO ME Even Keeley’s May Come Back HEARING that, in consequen prohibition, the famous Cure at White Plains (N. Y.) has collapsed and that its home is to be sold at auction, the ning Post re- marks that “many men will feel that with the falling of the hammer which marks its passing, the last frail link with a departed era has been irrevoc ably snapped.” But if worse comes to worst Keeley cures are gone for good will still remain money, the love of which is even more dangerous in love of rum, and that disposition of people to bestow themselves on persons of the opposite sex which we call love Money and love will continue to get people into so man: rapes that rum — — mee will hardly be missed as a factor of THF. DOG AND THE SHADOW mischief. comicbooks.comyy"