Life, 1928-07-05 · page 11 of 50
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**Top Cartoon:** Shows two children picking buttercups in a field, captioned "Oh, Mother, Spike and I have had the loveliest time. We've been picking buttercups!" This is a gentle, nostalgic domestic scene with no apparent political content—likely chosen to provide visual contrast or relief amid the political commentary. **Middle Cartoon:** Titled "The Tree Surgeon Goes Chiropractic," depicts a figure (appears to be a tree surgeon) manipulating a bent tree. This is a visual pun satirizing chiropractors' practices by comparing spinal adjustment to tree straightening—mocking chiropractic medicine as pseudoscience. **Text:** The political commentary discusses 1920s campaign issues, Prohibition, and Republican/Democratic positions, particularly regarding Hoover and Curtis as candidates.
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Rea Fit RPSEBRPFRSARISL FSS West. He voted both for and against the McNary-Haugen bill, so he appeals to both East and West. The strength that he brings to the ticket is the prospective win- ning of Electoral votes in crucial sections of the country. As far as his personality goes he is a weak candidate. Fre cannot make a speech; he is devoid of originality. His Indian blood and his earlier career as a jockey and cab-driver, give him a certain aspect of the picturesque, but during his many years in either House of Congress nobody has ever heard Mr. Cur- tis say a striking thing. He is what is known as “lovable,” but the defect of this magnetism for campaign purposes is that one has to come close to it to feel it. One cannot be lovable to 100,000,000 people. eee Tut Repustican party, to all intents and purposes, will be Dry in the coming campaign. The platform plank which Mr. Borah of Idaho wrote does not oppose modification of the Volstead Act, and thus docs not outrage what Wet senti- ment might otherwise be lost. But it spe- cifically mentions the Eighteenth Amend- ment and pleads for its observance and enforcement, The deliberate idea of Re- publican party managers is that this country is Dry in sentiment and that More votes are to be got on the Dry side of the argument than on the Wet. This decision was taken with the Democratic nominee in mind. It will tend to make Prohibition an issue in the campaign, even if it is not mentioned. The Republican side of the campaign will not be thrilling if it depends- on the performances of Messrs. Hoover and Cur- tis. It will be high-class and dull. An- nouncements from Republican _head- quarters indicate that both Mr. Hoover and Mr. Curtis will find it convenient to do most of their orating over the radio rather than in public auditoriums. A microphone is far less terrifying to some persons than a crowded theater, for a microphone cannot be bored. Henry Suydam. Tue Tree Surceon Goes Crirorracric My bear Eprtor: I do not think I will be able to write you a piece about the radio this week. I do not know whether I shall ever be able to write again. A week ago I was Captain of my Soul and boss of my fate but now I am a split personality. If I were to commit murder, it would be child's play for an amateur psychiatrist to have me acquitted. I have spent most of the past three weeks listening to the political conven- tions over the radio. Neither of them was exactly what you or even someone else would call fun; but if I must be partisan and vote for one, I nominate the Repub- lican Convention as the worse. Now, I have nothing against the Re- ublicans. In fact, I always believed that Hughes really was elected that time. But nominating speeches raise the devil with my vocabulary and my thinking. Just think, sixty million people listened comicbooks.com