Life, 1920-01-08 · page 17 of 44
Life — January 8, 1920 — page 17: what you’re looking at
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**Main Cartoon ("A Happy Solution"):** A satirical illustration showing the destruction wrought by Prohibition. The image depicts a wrecked landscape filled with chaos and devastation, labeled as representing the Anti-Saloon League's campaign. The accompanying article sarcastically praises the League for remaining "on the job," arguing that since they caused this "catastrophe," they should be preserved so authorities know whom to hold responsible when sanity returns and legal processes resume. **"Fourteen Points" Humor:** Mocks marital unhappiness through absurdist advice—never smile, hit people who smile at you, burn incense continuously, write down curse words, read adventure novels, and play a Jew's harp badly. This satirizes both self-help literature and marriage itself. **Supporting Articles:** Brief commentary on printing costs for the Congressional Record and government control of commodities, suggesting profiteers benefit from regulation. **Context:** This page reflects 1920s anxieties about Prohibition's effects and satirizes the Anti-Saloon League's role in its passage, portraying the policy as destructive while using dark humor to critique both the policy and those responsible.
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65 A HAPPY SOLUTION Fourteen Points on How to Be Happy Though Married | Never smile unless compelled to do so by law. very time anybody smiles at you hit him with the first thing handy. Fill your Buddha incense-container with fine cut and keep it going continuously. 4—Write all your favorite cuss words down in a book, and look at them once a day. 5—In spare moments read “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.” 6, 7, 8, 0, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14—Get a Jew’s harp and learn to play “How Dry 1 Am!” Saved from the Wreckage HE Anti-Saloon League will re- main on the job,” says William H. Anderson. This is the best possible After all disasters, it is im- portant that the agency or force re- sponsible for the damage shall be pre- served intact. Otherwise, with the return of reason, the processes of law, news. order and justice would be at a loss to know how to protect the community against a similar catastrophe in future. Many had feared that, having fulfilled its mission of destruction, the Anti- Saloon League would go out of busi- ness while the going was good. These misgivings are now set at rest. The League will remain. When sanity re- turns and the processes of law, order and justice are again functioning free- ly, they will know just where to go and whom to lay hands on. Printing Bills id to cost sixty thousand dollars a day to print the Congres- sional Record, —Lirr editorial, Dee. 25 OT so bad as that. thousand dollars a day to run the Government Printing Office, but the Congressional Record alone costs only fifteen hundred dollars a day. So says that great authority, Fuller Informa- tion. It costs forty Controlling RAWFORD: How do you stand on the question of government control? CransHaw: It seems to have an un- happy faculty of getting the commodity in question under control of the profi- teers. “ YES, MISS FLIPP, I'M CONTINUALLY BREAKING INTO SONG.” “Ip you'D EVER GET THE KEY, YOU WOULDN'T HAVE TO BREAK IN.” comicbooks.com