Life, 1928-10-12 · page 9 of 44
Life — October 12, 1928 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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This 1948 cartoon satirizes the upcoming presidential election, depicting a crowd watching two scenarios. The dialogue between Ms. Jenkins and Ms. Adams debates whether to vote for Mrs. Ten Eyck or Mrs. Brown, with Adams praising Brown's "courageous stand" on government control of airways. The cartoon's title and dual images suggest anxiety about female political power. The upper scene shows people gathered; the lower shows figures huddled together protectively, labeled "The Whispering Campaign." This visualizes contemporary fears that women voters—newly politically engaged—might elect candidates based on personality and persuasiveness rather than substantive policy, potentially leading to undesirable outcomes. The satire reflects mid-century anxieties about expanding female political participation.
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Will It Come to This? (The characters are Mr. Jupxins and Mr. Apams. The scene is a fashionable speak- easy in the mid-town district. The time 1s October, 1948.) Mr. Juoxins: Well, Harry, have you made up your mind about the election? Ma. Avams: Sure. I made it up after the conventions, last June. Mr. Juokins: Who you voting for? Mr. Avams: Mrs. Ten Eyck, of course. Ma. Juokins: So am I, of course. Mr. AvaMs: Mrs. Brown has made a strong campaign, and I guess she'll pull a Jot of votes in the East, but.... Mr. Jupkins: Yes, you're right. That's a mighty big “but.” Mr. Aas: I must say I like the cou- rageous stand Mrs. Brown has taken on Government control of airways, but. ... Mr. Jupxins: Sure, she's a clever woman, all right. And an_ attractive woman! Mr. Avams: Oh, she'll get a lot of sup- port from people who put personality ahead of dignity. Mr. Juokins: I know, there are a lot of unthinking people like that. They hear Mrs. Brown's smooth talk and they fall for it. Mr. Avams: She's persuasive, all right. Mr. Jupkins: Sure she’s persuasive. I know if I was going out on a party with one of the candidates, I'd rather take Mrs. Brown along than Mrs, Ten Eyck. Ha, ha! Mr. Avams: Yes, Mrs. Brown would be alot more fun, but.... Mr, Jupxins: BUT—just think of having Mr. Brown in the White House! P. C. Progress of Prohibition Enforcement Ix Indiana smugglers use an airplane with a private landing field to bring in Canadian liquor, and the liquor raiding squad of Toledo, Ohio, discovers two quarts of whiskey underneath a two- weeks-old baby; a school is found in New York for training bogus dry agents to prey upon speakeasies, and a Pennsylvania farmer is arrested when whiskey he dis: tilled from rotten apples and timothy hay makes a customer ill; two fake ocean liner stewards are charged with grand larceny for representing synthetic stuff as liquor “tight off the Bose, and a priest return- ing from Europe with cognac in his luggage receives a lecture on morals from a customs inspector; Judge Atwell of Texas, sitting in the U. S. District Court of Brooklyn, fines a man $200.00 for pos- LV falloo~ ~ Tre Wuisrerinc CAMPAIGN sessing a quart of wine, and Pussyfoot Johnson says, “For the next thousand years you can get a drink in Chicago”; poles in Washington, D. C., are found to framing rum charges on innocent citi- zens by perjury, and official records show that last year a large percentage of the force were on trial for drunkenness; Judge Meckins of North Carolina says, “I have faith in the Eighteenth Amendment,” and the son of the Superintendent of the Anti- Saloon League of South Carolina is jailed for selling and storing liquor. W. W. Scott, APPRECIATION Gourer (in the stands, as football player gets over a drop kick): Golly! Did you see that? He made a goal in one! LINES PENNED IN _ PROTEST AGAINST THE GENERAL TEN- DENCY TO CONDONE TYRANNY AND PALLIATE INTOLERANCE ON THE INADEQUATE GROUNDS OF GOOD INTENTION On, never yet fanatic flayed an unregen- erated friend, Nor Moslem melted lead to brim a Christian captive’s ear, And never bigot has essayed his fellows’ ways to reprehend, But what it could be said of him that he was quite sincere. C. McGarry Morley. Tue Repusticans say they put the country on Easy Street. Perhaps they meant on Easy Payment Street. comicbooks.com