Life, 1920-04-01 · page 27 of 60
Life — April 1, 1920 — page 27: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three separate satirical pieces from Life magazine, likely during or shortly after WWI. **"Don't Scrap a Good Tune"** argues against removing German music from American culture despite wartime hostility. It references "Die Wacht am Rhein" (a German patriotic song) and notes that a Yale song was reset to avoid German associations. The satire defends keeping valuable German compositions like Beethoven's work. **"A Perfect Easter"** mocks religious hypocrisy: a character advocates religious discipline for "young people and clergy" while presumably lacking it himself—the joke being his selective moralizing. **The money-lender joke** uses grammatical puns: the lender "serves in present tense, lends in conditional mood, keeps you subjective, and ruins you in future"—wordplay equating grammar with financial exploitation. The top illustration "A Perfect Easter" and "Artificial Respiration" cartoon appear to visualize these themes, though details are unclear from this reproduction.
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Don’t Scrap a Good Tune ‘RRIGHT COLLE YEARS,” a favorite Yale song, had the ill- ick to be set to the tune of “Die Wacht am Rhein,” and report says it has been de-Germanized and reset to new music. Let us hope that is another fib to be redited to “report.” We ought to get all the good we can out of Germany, and keep all the good ve ever got. Even so, the account w he hard to <¢ «By all means ke Il the good ¢ n tunes and Germ: There is no more reason scrap the “Die Wacht am Rhein” than to scrap Beethoven. music, tune of ME: HOWARD: What makes you think the butler won't stay? Howarp: So far he has refused to lend me any money. A PERFECT EASTER ARKE: I'm more and more con- vinced that as a nation, what we lack is religious discipline. Lane: But to whom would apply it? “Oh, to the young people and clergy- you TEACHER of English in one of our colleges describes a money- lender as follows: “ He serves you in the present tense, lends in the conditional mood, keeps you in the subjective, and ruins you in the future.” ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION comicbooks.com