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This page from *Life* magazine (likely early 1920s) contains brief satirical commentary on contemporary American politics and social issues, plus one cartoon. **The cartoon** depicts a man at a desk checking the time on a scale while a woman asks "Is that the correct time?" — a visual pun playing on the dual meaning of "scale" (weighing device vs. time measurement). **The text snippets mock:** - Post-WWI conditions (war memorials, Liberty Loan speeches) - Prohibition enforcement difficulties in New York - The newly appointed Vice-President Coolidge, whom readers apparently didn't know - The income tax as "capital punishment" - Censorship of film producers - The Elwell case (a famous unsolved 1920 murder) and Roy Harris's confusion about it - Fake spiritualists and séance fraud The humor relies on readers' familiarity with current events: war recovery, Prohibition debates, celebrity scandals, and political figures. The tone is sophisticated, urbane mockery typical of *Life*'s educated readership.

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BLETS about Paris marking the spots where air- plane bombs fell during the war. We in America should similarly immortalize Liberty have been placed the location of all the Loan speeches He's a wise Russian who knows when he’s a rebel. The Czechoslovakian Rev the beer brewing industry of Czechoslovakia is in a critical ew says that condition. Hands across the se: eee film approved by the has pro- “All we want,” they The censor Dill been ducers, say, “is a chance to clean up.” That's all any wants. producer The devil never has to wait Now if the man that gave the Pres- iredale pup will only present Secretary of the ident an a watchdog to the Treasury. If the lawmakers keep on, prohibition may have to be enforced in New York on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays eee L-O-V-E spells Romance. M-A-R- men in Broadway shows nov ys, should get a job in the chorus and feast her eyes on the tired business men and critics out front. cee Too Many York Times What price milk of human kindness? see Cows in Ge Telephone communication has | tablished States, 1 es between Cuba and the United “ Hello, Heaven!" Central, give eee There would be pleasure or interest in living in this world, if there were war between ngland the United States Gre} Hear! Hear! eee Cigarettes can once more be sold in Towa. Up goes the price of corn- silk his turn. He is always next. see It_was my secretary and not I who said, “ The people of Omaha impressed me as being—bonehcads.""—Gilbert K. Chesterton. It's a great life over here— if you weaken a little. eee Recent arrests of fake clair- voyants show the way of the trance guesser is still hard. see “Hang it!” said Roy Harris in a private interview, “I made a slight mistake. I didn’t mean the Elwell case, I meant the Wall Street explosion.” eee A movement to forbid smoking in polling and voting pleces has been set on foot by the W. C. T. U. But how shall we get out the women’s vote if this goes through? eee Not every writer who can produce good stuff that won't sell can turn out trash that will. eee Heaven won't be exclusive enough to suit some people nearly oes “'SCUSE ME, MISTER, IS THAT THE CORREC’ TIME?” Mikado's all-sublime punishment The object of crime-fitting has been achieved. Labor leader Brindell will not be permitted to wear his fancy shirts in Sing Sing. see The number of successful campaigns for relief of various Sorts has given lec- turers the idea that in America every crowd has a silver lining. The young lady who wrote to the Times complaining that there are no handsome Queen Marie, of Rumania, is coming to this country “to see a bit of wild life” Ch after dark is recommended to Her Majesty's attention As a heir-raising proposition, chicken fancying is nothing new to royalty. eee Paradox Valley, in Colorado, where most of the radium comes from, sounds like an ideal Happy Hunting Ground for G. K. Chesterton. eee The responsibility for the care of our wounded veterans has now been handed over to the War Risk Insurance Bureau In peace, as in war, the old national game of passing the buck (private) goes on. eee Ten weeks having elapsed since the fact became generally noised abroad, it m: interesting to note that the name of the Vice-President of the United States is Coolidge eee Capital punisnment—the income tax. comicbooks.com