Life, 1926-09-02 · page 7 of 41
Life — September 2, 1926 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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This page from *Life* magazine contains travel poetry, a short story titled "The Nonconformist," and a satirical cartoon at the bottom. **The Cartoon:** Titled "Sunday School Teacher: AND WHO CAME TO NOAH'S ARK ON THE FORTIETH DAY?" with the caption "Pupil: THE REVENUE OFFICERS." The joke targets **revenue officers** (federal tax collectors/Prohibition agents) through a child's innocent misunderstanding. During Prohibition era America, revenue officers were widely resented for enforcing unpopular alcohol laws. By having a Sunday school pupil unwittingly associate them with Noah's flood—a biblical catastrophe—the cartoon satirizes how unpopular and unwelcome these officers were perceived to be in American society. The humor relies on the child's accidental wisdom revealing public sentiment.
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Lifve Travel brings the tourists AUTUMN home From Paris, London, Munich, Rome, Their trunks tight-packed with sou- venirs Of Venice, Budapest, Algiers. How worn they look! How sad and thin tramping Berlin! From Florence, ‘Tours, But view — the muscles Acquired in Pisa, Baden, Brussels! splendid hiking- Within three fleeting months they did Vienuim, Naples, Omsk, Madrid, And their survey was no less thor- ough Of Deauville, Prague, and) Edin- burgh. From Hamburg, Brest, Cork, now sail homeward to New York, Palermo, They Eager to get the first good look At Queens, Nantucket, Sandy Hook, And sce their friends and parents line Piers 30, 40, 59! With happy faces they entrain For Georgia, Minnesota, Maine, Resolving never to forsake Grand Rapids, Council Bluffs, Salt Lake. Norman R. Jaffray. The Nonconformist him! “H OLD i away! The crowd was shouting such warnings as I approached, my curi- aroused by the hu which T had heard two blocks Obviously, something serious happening. witl Don't Iet him get was The streets were tilled ers, it being Labor Day. ¢ his hands and feet! Gag him!” roared the burly leader of the crowd. He was dressed in bright, clean overalls, as were all the rest of the mob, “Now we'll go lock him up. That will keep him out of ef,” the leader continued, Vhat has the fellow done?” I asked one of the denim-clad men. “Has he robbed some one?” “Robbed some one? Well, tly. He's a revolutionist !” A revolutionist !” Yes. He wants to upset Amer- n institutions!” Not re; , “Yes. He insists on taking the name of Labor Day seriously, and wants to work.” not John C. Emery. Among Her Books QUIRST FLAPPER: Who is your favorite author? Srconp Frarver: Tolstoi. Finst Frarren: Oh — they say he's perfectly wonderful! Secoxn Fuarren: Yes, what I've heard. that’s UZZLE—IEf exercise will elimi- nate fat, how in the world does a woman get a double chin? Sunday School Teacher: AND WHO CAME TO NOAH’S ARK ON THE FORTIETH DAY? Pupil: THUn REVENUE OFFICERS. comicbooks.com