Life, 1926-06-03 · page 4 of 44
Life — June 3, 1926 — page 4: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is **primarily advertising**, not political satire. The left half features a Wescott Soles shoe advertisement targeting sportsmen, emphasizing the shoe's grip and lightweight qualities for golf, tennis, and outdoor activities. The ad uses the Goodyear Welt Process as a selling point. The right side contains three separate short humorous pieces: 1. **"Seeing America First"** - A joke about a driver recounting mundane travel experiences (gas prices, traffic, mud holes) 2. **"That Fellow Feeling"** - A story about T. Jefferson Tompkins, a gout-afflicted man who condescendingly refuses to give money to street beggars, then ironically encounters one himself 3. **"Just in Time"** - A brief comedic dialogue These are light social humor pieces typical of Life magazine's satirical content, not political commentary.
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Sportsmen will favor shoes with Wescott SoLes because of the many advantages they offer. The golfer and yachtsman will appreciate their extraordinary grip- ping power, while the tennis player will find their extreme lightweight a valuable aid to his footwork. 205 Lincoln Street s wrinkled This superior outdoor sole is a blending of selected cotton felt and unvulcanized latex rubber securely attached by the Goopyear WELT PROCEss. The Sole of Quality For Shoes of Distinction United Shoe Machinery Corporation Selling Agents UAC Boston, Massachusetts Seeing America First TION Niagara Falls, Yellow- stoxe Park or the Grand Canyon to the flivver owner who drove his car across the continent and he will prob ably recall having heard those names | before. Ask him what he saw on his tour he will describe to the last det. The place where gas was thirty cight cents a gallon. The polite traffic cop. The thirty-four detours. The weather for twenty consect- tive The mud-hole he avoided. The mud-hole he did not avoid. The eighteen cars he saw from his home State. The hill where he passed an “eight.” The hot-dog vendor who short- changed him fifteen cents. The rusty nail that caused his one puncture. The other good driver he saw on | the road. Bill Sykes. That Fellow Feeling “ME tea 1 won't have you giving to these street beg They all fakers, too lazy to work. Im a point never to give them a cent Jeffe Tompkins pulled his wife away f her object of charity. ven't you any fellow feelings?” she asked T. Jefferson Tompkins was six feet four inches of health and enthusiasm ; all his life a human dynamo with never an ailment. But one day T. Jefferson ompkins was seized with an attack | of gout. He suffered unspeakable tor- tures. His wife chose to ignore it His daughter was too busy to take much notice. His friends seemed to think it very funny. On the third and worst day of his fi Jefferson Tompkins pain- ly extracted himself from his lim ousine in front of his of and, h bling across the sidewalk, ran into a beggar who was slowly shuffling along with a tray of pencils The beggar had one foot all bound up. He looked at 7 4 kins’ f smiled for the first time in three days, handed the beg- “Would you round to-morrow and D. H. Brown Just in ay Time cr was any good! And he's just had a million left him. Bess: I was just kidding June: was I UCD at Seeds Ihde POR ones Seat BE Ree Cap See Moe a ta ed Exeter comicbooks.com