Life, 1920-05-20 · page 12 of 48
Life — May 20, 1920 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
**Top Cartoon ("This Is Your New Daddy, Dear!"):** Shows a woman and child meeting a formally-dressed man. The caption suggests remarriage or a new family arrangement, likely satirizing social attitudes toward divorce and blended families. **Bottom Illustration ("On the Way"):** Depicts a chaotic scene with Mr. Bag celebrating as the fire department approaches his home. The caption reads: "Hurrah! Our home is saved. The fire department has started, and should reach here within three days." This satirizes slow emergency response times or government inefficiency—the fire department's glacial pace means his house will burn down before help arrives. **"LIFE'S Little Candidacies" Article:** Discusses a proposed constitutional amendment creating federal rent control, with specific minimum rates and room-counting provisions. This appears to address 1920s housing policy debates.
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LIFE’S Little Candidacies HE Landlord's Candidate for Presi- dent will demand an amendr the Constitution to make tenancy a ject for exclusive Federal jurisdiction, with all leases to expire one week from the day to become effective. He will ther promote a national rent law under which all rents shall be based on a pe i charge, all closets, presses, alec recesses to count as rooms, The minimum rate per room per mot will he ninety dollars, on the theory t the tenant would have to pay that mi for a room in a hotel if he could get in one. An average rental of four hundred anil fifty dollars per month for five-room flats will, it is believed, enable the rent brokers to maintain their own families in keeping with ordinary American standards, pr vided that all building is prohibited for ON THE way five years, so as to give the brokers some Mr. Bug: WuRRAH! OUR HOME IS SAVED, THE FIRE DEPARTMENT HAS STARTED, assurance of the future state of busi- AND SHOULD REACH HERE WITHIN THREE DAYS ness. comicbooks.com