Life, 1925-04-02 · page 21 of 44
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The main cartoon depicts two rotund figures labeled "THE SENATE" in apparent agreement or understanding. The satire concerns political compromise and mutual benefit between parties who previously opposed each other. The surrounding text discusses three pilgrimages: Jews traveling to Jerusalem for a college opening, Jeffersonian Democrats visiting France to honor democratic founders, and a sardonic suggestion that Samuel Untermyer should lead a combined expedition to Jerusalem instead—implying Jerusalem (Palestine), not France, was democracy's true birthplace. The cartoon's caption, "Now That We Understand Each Other," suggests the Senate has reached some backroom deal or compromise, possibly regarding foreign debts (mentioned in the text) or war reparations. The joke satirizes how politicians achieve agreement through mutual self-interest rather than principle. The page also includes an anecdote about a deaf-mute who regains speech after anesthesia, used as a philosophical parallel about removing mental inhibitions.
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metropolis, and is dissipating the last remnants of the ice age there. Then there are two more pilgrimages ; one of Jews to Jerusalem, that set sail the other day from a crowded pier in New York in a ship of its own under the Jewish flag, amidst enthusiasm that strained the best exertions of the police. The object of this excursion is to at- tend an opening of the Jewish college in Jerusalem. The name of the leader of it is not familiar to Gentiles, and one may feel that it should have been Mr. Samuel Untermyer. But perhaps Mr. Un- termyer is busy or possibly his interest in Jerusalem has not yet been reawakened. The third pilgrim- age is one of Jeffer- sonian Democrats to France, where they propose to put wreaths on the tombs of La- fayette and other Fathers of De- mocracy, and see all the sights. That ex- cursion also Mr. Un- termyer seems to be the proper person to shepherd. There is no report that he intends to, but the real place for the Jeffersonian Democrats to go to is Jerusalem, for Pales- tine, much more than France, was the birth- place of Jeffersonian Democracy. If the two excursions of the Jews to Jerusalem and the Jeffersonian Demo- crats to Paris could be combined and procced to Jerusalem with Mr. Untermyer as the hea of the combination, that would be ideal and would make a com- petent rival to the notable Holy Year pil- grimage under Cardi- nal O'Connell, various 'OREIGN debts are going to be cut after a while when we get around to it. Mr. Bernard Baruch a LIFE : has the right idea about how to cut them. He would deduct from moneys duc us on war loans what was spent on war material by the use of which we bene- fited as an associate in the war. TH other day at Bellevue Hospital a man who had been dumb for fifty- five years burst into fluent speech as an after-effect of ether given him for some sort of operation. His dumbness, it scems, was due to a mental inhibit which the ether for the time being dis- 19 sulved. He was believed to be a deaf Apparently he had always he: but words did not reach his cc mind though his subconscious mind got them, ly he knew words and when his inhibition could speak them. That is very curious, Compare it with the case of the dumb man in the New Testament whose speech was restored In that case too, probably, an inhibition was demolished, though not by ether E. S. Martin mute. Accordir was removed he “NOW THAT WE UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER” comicbooks.com