Life, 1920-09-23 · page 13 of 40
Life — September 23, 1920 — page 13: what you’re looking at
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The top cartoon depicts a golf scene with well-dressed men and a caddy. The caption reads: "NEW GOLFER (just starting in on unfamiliar links): NOW, LET ME SEE. DO I WANT TO AIM FOR THAT FLAG OVER THERE? / CADDY (catching his stance): NO, SIR; AIM FOR THE CLUBHOUSE." This is a joke about a novice golfer's poor aim—the caddy sarcastically suggests aiming for the clubhouse instead of the flag, implying the beginner is so inept he'd likely send the ball flying in a completely wrong direction anyway. Below, there's a section titled "A DOMESTIC INCIDENT" showing cartoon vignettes, though details are unclear from the image quality. The page also contains text about campaign finance and railroad wages by Robert C. Benchley.
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yl (iC _ “CE Golfer (just starting in on unfamiliar links): NOW, LET Mz SEE. 0.1 WANT TO AIM FOR THAT FLAG OVER THERE? Caddy (xatching his stance): No, sik; AIM FoR THE CLUBHOUSE tickets, we found that they had gone up from $8.30 to $0.97 HE public at large approves heartily of the present move- ($to, when you take out the price of your newspaper). Dawson was pretty much worked up over it, and so was I. It seemed such a cowardly thing to do without any warning. And it also seemed that all this argument during the summer, as to whether the roads should have to pay more wages and the shippers higher rates, was all very simple and could have been settled in no time at all. Why all this fuss on the part of the railroads about paying out more money? Why should the shippers complain at an increase in rates? Dawson and I are always there to fall back on. And if this article were to be illustrated, it would be nice to show a picture of the railroads and the shippers falling back on Dawson and me. You couldn't sce Dawson and me in the pic- ture, but you would know that we were underneath there some- shere, discussing the thing in a detached manner, For, after all, Dawson is in the insurance business, and I write for a living, and railroad wages and freight rates are out of our line. Robert C. Benchley. ment to limit the size of campaign funds; but they would like it still better if someone should take measures to limit the size of campaign speeches. \VHEN the average automobile enthusiast hears opportunity knocking, he thinks that there is something wrong with his motor. A DOMESTIC INCIDENT comicbooks.com