Life — March 3, 1927 — page 10: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 8 This page contains three distinct pieces: 1. **"What's the Use?"** — A brief joke about a stenographer tired of work; the second character suggests marriage as an escape, but the first replies "I am" — satirizing marriage as equally exhausting labor. 2. **"Justice in Gehenna"** — A lengthy satirical letter from "Satan" welcoming the reader to a meeting, praising the Greater Phillipsburg Association for their anti-labor advocacy. This mocks employers opposing unionization and worker protections, portraying such opposition as literally demonic. 3. **"Lies"** and **bottom cartoon** — A poem celebrating lies' superiority to truth, followed by a street scene where a coal vendor pressures a child whose father is vegetarian. The satire criticizes commercial manipulation of consumers, particularly children.