Life, 1920-02-05 · page 37 of 52
Life — February 5, 1920 — page 37: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertisement page** for Tiffany & Co. luxury goods, with supporting editorial content. The main cartoon at bottom depicts a **wartime profiteering scene**: a crowd of ordinary citizens (appearing to be poor or working-class) confronts what seems to be a profiteer or war-profiteer at a counter. The caption reads: "IF THE PROFITEER COULD BE COMPELLED TO REIMBURSE HIS VICTIMS." This references **WWI-era concerns** about merchants exploiting civilians through price-gouging and unfair wartime commerce. The cartoon satirizes how profiteers enriched themselves while ordinary people suffered economically. The left column contains a nostalgic essay by Frederick Moxon praising Boy Scouts, contrasting his own misspent youth with the character-building benefits scouting provides. A smaller illustration shows a girl admiring a Boy Scout uniform—captioned as the "beginning of feminine adoration for the uniform."
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What We Missed # from page 232) ot so were we. Ii we er backed up against a fence by a balky mule, did we all run to his rescue ani tell him how sorry we felt? [ should laugh! We just all whooped it up around that mule until he got rted off down the lot as as ablaze. Then the farmer us with a dog and a gun. Vhy, a Boy Scout doesn’t aything about it, hiking along with a broomstick in his fist and using a compass (o find out where the sun sets. Still, as | said, I think I would have leen of more account, and held a higher position in the esteem of the world, if ! could have had the advan- tage of Boy Scouting. As I look back on my wild and wasted youth, it is a marvel to me that I am not at this minute serving a life ‘sentence in the penitentiary. But what amazes me even more, both “ Peck” Barker and “Soggy” Jones have so far escaped hanging. One is a prosecuting attor- ney, an the other is representative from our congressional district. But think what they might have become if we had had a troop of scouts in Higgs Upper Village! Frederick Moxon. HE beginning of feminine adora- tion for the uniform: When a little girl sees the boy next door in his Boy Scout clothes. 260 W. Broadway Dept. 7 New York City TIFFANY & Co, JEWELRY SILVERWARE STATIONERY WATCHES AND CLOCKS NOTED FOR QUALITY PURCHASES MAY BE MADE BY MAIL FIFTH AVENUE & 37" STREET NEw YORK IP THE PROFITEER COULD BE COMPELLED TO REIMBURSE 11S VICTIMS comicbooks.com