Life — July 23, 1925 — page 18: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This appears to be a safety-themed cartoon from Life magazine satirizing traffic enforcement. The image shows a woman driving a roadster (open-top car) with a "Private Drive Way For Guests Only" sign visible, being approached by what appears to be a traffic officer or policeman. The incomplete caption suggests the woman is challenging the officer's authority or competence ("If you're any kind of a traffic officer..."), likely making a joke about traffic enforcement standards or suggesting the officer should be doing something else. The cartoon appears to be promoting road safety awareness—possibly connected to the "First National Bank" credit line visible in the OCR text, suggesting this was sponsored safety advertising rather than purely editorial satire. The humor likely lies in questioning whether traffic officials were actually effective at their jobs during this early automotive era.