Life, 1923-08-02 · page 10 of 40
Life — August 2, 1923 — page 10: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
**Top Cartoon**: Shows two men examining propaganda posters. The caption references "bank presidents or railroad directors or senator North Wilkie, too," suggesting satire of wealthy industrialists and politicians. The joke implies these elites would prefer to spread propaganda about their own importance rather than discuss serious issues like cigarettes or pipes. **Bottom Illustration**: Depicts a domestic scene where a child has tracked mud inside. The mother figure stands disapprovingly as the child promises to clean it up. This appears to be humorous social commentary on household management and parenting—a gentle domestic joke rather than political satire. The page overall mixes political commentary on elite hypocrisy with genteel domestic humor typical of Life magazine's editorial style.
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What Started the War HE real cause of the Punic Wars was not, as usually stated by the historians, commercial rivalry, but the efforts of the Aryan-Mediterranean League to show that the Romans and Carthagiaians were descended from the same Indo-Iranian stock, and should therefore live in am- ity. Recent data shows that there was.an organized move- ment to promote peace and goodwill between the North African and Roman peoples, and that Carthaginian poets, novelists and statesmen were sent to Rome to lecture on the common aspirations of the world’s two greatest cities, Despite the fulminations of William Randolph Cato war might have been averted, had not Carthage sent as am- bassador one Georgius Harveus, who made an oration in which he declared that in all but race and nationality he was a Roman. After that nothing remained but to declare ruthless, devastating, exterminating war. To the Moon OVE has no need of you—gaudy futility— Youth is sufficient and Cupid's agility ; And if the poets have made quite a bit of you, What are you, sir, getting right down to it? A view— Pretty to look at, but only admissible When it should happen the girl is unkissable! “MAYBE IF WE'D SMOKED CIGARETTES INSTEAD OF THESE INSIDIOUS PIPES WE'D A’ Bi BANK PRESIDENTS OR educated man is one who can quote Shakespeare RAILROAD DIRECTORS OR SUMPIN’ WORTH WHILE, TOO.” without crediting it to the Bible. “] GUESS I MUST HAVE BROUGHT THAT MUD IN, MOTHER. I'LL CLEAN IT UP.’ comicbooks.com