Life, 1927-04-07 · page 26 of 59
Life — April 7, 1927 — page 26: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains several satirical pieces targeting 1920s American figures and trends: **"That's the Bunk!"** depicts Henry Ford's libel suit, mocking his willingness to settle via installment payments—a joke about Ford's own mass-production financing methods. The reference to the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments suggests Ford's controversial views on race. **The "Life Lines"** section offers brief satirical quips: one mocks a flapper's patriotic economy by saving cigarette coupons (trivial savings); another jokes about Harvard students roughhousing with police. **"Prediction"** parodies English biologist predictions of Earth's doom in 40 million years, comparing the inevitability to the endless run of the popular play "Abie's Irish Rose." **The bottom cartoon** uses a classic vaudeville joke format (the "that was no lady" setup) but applies it to a female "Official Spokeswoman"—satirizing official female spokespeople, a relatively new phenomenon in the 1920s. The overall tone reflects Jazz Age skepticism toward authority, modern figures, and grand predictions.
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Lines * \ ONCEIVABLY Henry Forv might settle that I million-dollar libel suit by five dollars down and the | rest in easy payments. aL I've Mr. Forn’s passion for preserving American historical \ elics might cause him to dust off the old Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments and put them on exhibition some- ; where. Eai J - “Sullivan was confident that he would succeed in his second attempt to swig the Catalina Channel.”—Madison Press, Lon- don, Ohio. People nowadays will drink anything! A aL aid the patriotic flapper. “I think President economy program is perfectly glorious. Be- ginning to-morrow, I’m going to save my cigarette cou- pons. Jt Now that ten Harvard men have been convicted of rough-housing Of Cambridge cops, we presume that the Police Depart- \ ment will sever ath- [ ) “A letic relations. “THAT's THE BUNK!” Prediction A FAMOUS English biologist hazards that the end of the world will occur in about forty million years. During these more and more. The moon wil z | ry y- (1 proach the earth nearer and 1 Its journey will be r gravitational strain, and this will cause huge crackings in the moon's surface. Fragments will fall and spin round the earth, coming closer and closer. When the moon is in the \ y, fh, f P last stages of disintegration, one ( great depression in its surface will y /} \ widen and emit a flood of white-hot TAL = é i 1 | \Le sy A lava. The heat will dry up rivers and ‘ " \ lakes; the ocean will boil, and finally, when all that remains of the moon is a mere ring of lava and dust, the earth will have been buried under \ / layers upon | s of lunar frag- \ \ | Ns 7 ments. Forty million years... well, : well It looks as though “Abie’s fi Irish Rose” may not run as long as i some of us imagine. w Tupper Greenwald. Z HO was that lady I saw you ] with last night?” Father: WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH ALL THOSE TRAVEL FOLDERS? “That was no lady—that was my Daughter: 4 FORTUNE TELLER TOLD ME I WAS GOING ON A LONG TRIP, AND Official Spokeswoman,” 1M PICKING OUT A PL comicbooks.com