Life, 1920-09-09 · page 10 of 44
Life — September 9, 1920 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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This page from *Life* magazine features "The Dog Star," a satirical cartoon showing a dog gazing upward at a star. The accompanying text criticizes Chicago's recent crime wave, noting the city has established a "new crime record for the United States" by staging "no less than twenty-five hold-ups within the city limits in one day." The cartoon uses the dog star (Sirius) as a metaphor, with the image likely suggesting Chicago should "wake up" and address its lawlessness. The text references Bishop Berkeley and Horace Greeley, invoking the latter's famous phrase "Go West" to sardonically suggest that westward expansion brought criminals and chaos rather than opportunity. The satire targets Chicago's boastful claims of supremacy while facing mounting crime problems.
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442 LIFE’S Fresh Air Fund lusive of 1919, Live's Fresu Ain Funo has defn te operation ihisty-theee yesri. fe that ties it has erpended $183,025.49 and has given a fort- night in the country to 40,802 poor city children. The sFund is supported’ entirely by bequests ond ntary contributions, which are acknowl- edged in this column. Checks should be made payable to Live’s Fresn Ain Funo, and a dressed to Live, 17 West gust Street, New Balance. Richard idney Junior Lewis .. James RK. Thompson Miss H. 'B, Shattuck Mrs. Oswald Brown. July collections at Camp Winnepesaukee 40.00 'D, MT.” R 1,00 Mrs. C. W. Brady Stiteice 2066 “A. HM Mu ciete 2 10.00 Marion . 10.00 Eva Merlin and Olga Heyerles.c2/11) 10.00 Evening Service collection Wildmere “In memory “A Belgian Friend * Mrs. Edwin B, Holden. lorence M. Rapp Kathleen R. Stratie Margaret Edna Roe! Marie Carstens J. H. Fost * Another Friend Marjorie D, Parcells “In memory of Brow Miss A, M. Roby Mrs, R.A. Parker. Mrs. LL. Berry. Amelia Bowers Proceeds of fair conducted by Charles Palmer at N. London, Conn. . Tain't much " “In memory of my mother Joseph R. Dilworth . Henry H. Adams, Jr. . “Jack Maltin, eight "years of ion City, Pa. AWD” “Jack and’ Catherine Sianley B. Rice, Mabel H. ‘Stant Gilberta D. Goodwin Philip P. Page . The first five Sur the boys at Camp Wyanoke, ath to August ist, inclusive Mrs. C. W. Mengel “In memory of our Katherine “Pennsylvar William A mory of two Fredericas } G. Darte. . “In memory of Nathglie Burt € Mrs. Henry Greenwald . “Sand Piper Tea House," ran’ by Maud Tilton, Frances Hildt, Amory and Hope Cheney at Black Point, Conn. .... Rirketho os Mrs, H. W. Tinsman seceses “In memory W. H, W., Bu > Edward and Warren liartwell... 22. 10.00 Beginners’ Department, Independent Presbyterian Church, Rirmingham Ala. $4 (This statement includes. all_contributi ceived before August 11, 1920.) ACKNOWLEDGED WITH THANKS Stockings, socks, neckties, suit, toys and candy from Jack Mullin, eight years old, of Union City, Pa. Belt, pair of socks, four tennis balls, hat, underdrawers, two shirts, undervests and tie from an unknown donor. One splendid suit of clothes with extra pair of pants from J. Minot, “ Cedarcove,” Red Bank, N. J The Dog Star Who Wrote Shakespeare? SIEUR LEFRANG, who hails from Paris, Howing a Mr. Harris More or less, Believes that Shakespeare's dramas are hy William Stanley, Earl of Darby: : That’s-his guess. M’sicur Demblon, who likewise French is, Holds, of dates and facts, such wrenches Under ban; Sure as Elsinore’s not Jutland, Roger Manners, Earl of Rutland, Is the man. These are foreign theories, G. * A New Yorker thought that Raleigh Filled the myth; Colonel Watterson says “ And a certain Mr. Barlow Thinks ‘twas Smith. Was it Wilson, Harding, Cox, Ford? Mr. Looney swears Lord Oxford Slung the ink. et though illumey, Sounds a wee bit nom de plume Don't you think? You may believe it Oxford, Lyly, Rutland—that some other Willy Writ these plays; But you mustn't think that Bacon Was a poet or could take on Such bad ways. Francis really had no eye for Drama; what he loved was cipher, Law—and pelf. Yet these plays got written. Come now! Could it be Will cribbed them, somehow, From himself ? B Schelling. The New Empire City Ciicaco recently established a new. crime record for the United States by staging no less than twenty-five hold- ups within the city limits in one day. It is as Bishop Berkeley (or was it Horace Greeley?) so well said, “ West- ward the course of empire takes its way. The Illinois metropolis has long been threatening to become the greatest city in the country. Its citizens have frequently boasted’ of its supremacy in all fields of achievement, and now they are backing up these far from idle boasts with the cold facts. Wake up, New York! comicbooks.con)