Life, 1928-05-31 · page 11 of 34
Life — May 31, 1928 — page 11: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
**"The Call of the Open Road"** (top cartoon) depicts an early automobile with passengers, satirizing the automobile craze and leisure travel emerging in early 20th-century America. The jovial mood captures optimism about modern transportation's freedom. **"Keeping the Party Pure: Mr. Meeks Gives a Congressman Back His Cigar"** (bottom cartoon) shows a magician or illusionist making a cigar disappear while a congressman watches in amazement. This appears to satirize political corruption or bribery—the "cigar" likely representing a bribe or improper gift. The joke suggests a magician can make illicit gifts vanish, keeping politics ostensibly "pure" while corruption continues invisibly. The cartoon critiques political hypocrisy regarding ethical standards.
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Tue Cart or tHe Oren Roan get it, Elsie Janis has patented a new hair medicine. Aunt Jemima of “Show Boat,” who weighs ten pounds less than Grant’s Tomb, makes the best spaghetti in New York. “Crazy Rhythm” from “Here's Howe!” gets you that way, and Mrs. Samuel Insull is due here soon, but not to act, thank God! Well, Willard, you'll be glad to hear I'm now on the way to carning m second million—having given up al thoughts of acquiring the first. Walter Winchell. (Here is another reply to Mr. Win- chell’s: wide-open letters.) Along the Main Street Dean Pa Watrter: Well, old boy, I'm. starting off with a whizz. The latest along the flag- stones of Main St. is “Let a snicker be your slicker on a rainy, rainy day.” Not so bad for the burdocks, eh, boy? Yes, the old gent is getting to be a regular “ah- ah.” Says the branches off the Main Stem are being pruned so that it may have all the saps possible. Well, there hasn’t been much doing locally of a sensational nature. Ye Dew Droppe Inne has been promoting bi- weekly hope with a fair response from the populace. So you see we are not sax- starved. Something that goes well on the floor is, “Been taking dancing lessons?” They have to say, “No.” Say, then, “Well, how do you get that sway?” It’s a twenty-count kayo. What do you think regarding the com- ing election? Hoover’ll be the next tenant, as local dope goes. The boys at the Square Deal Service Station held a straw vote the other day and elected him. Being a representative lot, they were so struck with their results that they wired him their congratulations, with the appended advice to case off any more campaigning as it would tend to simplify the ensuing in- vestigation. It was a close election, though, Walter, and Smith led until the very end. In fact, it looked for a time as if Smith were clected, but two (2) Hoover bal- lots were found under the sweatband of Howard Barstow’s hat—we were using his for an improvised ballot box—which gave Hoover the Office, Here are the re- sults of the election, tabulated: 7 P, Waner 4 3 + Not exactly a leadslide, as they say in Chi, ch? Well, I'll have to close now, as there are a couple of cats taking a sun- bath in our pansy bed. ? Hoover Sairu S. Keep out of the tabloids. P. IF POETS TOLD THE TRUTH Porms are made by fools like me; But any nut can make a tree. Carolyn Wells, Keerinc tHe Party Pure Mr. Meeks Gives a Congressman Back His Cigar comicbooks.com