Life, 1927-03-03 · page 10 of 35
Life — March 3, 1927 — page 10: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
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.
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What's the Use? First Stenographer: ’M TIRED OF WORKING. Second Ditto: wity pon’? you Get MARRIED? First Stenographer: 1 aM. Justice in Gehenna : Welcome! I have al- ays looked forward to a mect- ing with you, Mr. Executive Seere- tary of the Greater Phillipsburg As sociation, I am pleased to have the opportunity to call your attention to a booklet which I have forwarded under separate cover and which will acquaint you with the climate admirably suited to the propagation of tack factorics and adapted to the needs of the skilled workman occupying a stra- tegic position on four rail- roads with two hundred and sixty-five miles of paved streets becking to the low wage scale which the vaca- tioner finds in the industrial sites unless the lowest death rate in 1892 can, by friendly co-operation, carry 106,208 passengers on its cars to fur- nish pure water to four out of five who own automobiles thus offsetting the lack of labor trouble in tree-lined streets because a steady in- crease in population coupled with healthy bank clearings proves the efficiency of the mean rainfall in the mu- nicipal development field with clectricity on all four corners of our model school activity in realty for tine? Oh, what's a few hundred years down here? Well, to make a long story short, turning to page 83 you will find... And so on throughout eternity. Gerald Cosgrove. You're pressed Lies THE hills endure, and so does brass; The Phenix never really dies; Consider, gentle Freshman Class, The immortality of Lies, A Truth is meck and mild of mien; In doubt and dread it crawls and clings. A Lie of purest ray serene Soars round the world on daunt- less wings. A Truth you're bound to justify With fact and argument as well; But no one needs to prove a Lie A Lie you merely have to tell. How many a brazen Lie I've met And nailed it down or corked it up! How soon the joyous little pet Was frisking round me like a pup! Truth crushed to earth stays down and quits; Inert, she takes the count of ten; But Error simply knocked to bits Is up and on his toes again. Arthur Guiterman. T° err is human; to admit it is foolish. “ONE TON OF COAL, YES. NOW DO YOU WANT IT EGG COAL oR NUT coAL?” ” system under the present “I FORGET. BUT FATHER’S A VEGETARIAN AN’ I GUESS MEBBE YOU BETTER MAKE IT NUT- comicbooks.com