Life, 1928-11-02 · page 29 of 48
Life — November 2, 1928 — page 29: what you’re looking at
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This page satirizes **Prohibition** (the 1920-1933 ban on alcohol) through multiple angles. The top sections feature quotes from prominent figures—notably "Pussyfoot" Johnson, a famous Prohibition enforcer, who admits he "had to lie, bribe and drink to put over Prohibition in America." This is the page's sharpest jab: the hypocrisy of those who championed alcohol prohibition while themselves drinking. The "Dr. Jekyll" illustration contrasts a refined gentleman with a drunken mess, mocking Prohibition's premise that eliminating alcohol improves society. The large cartoon at bottom depicts a truck driver who "just got engaged himself"—likely commenting on working-class life and social upheaval during Prohibition's era. The voting appeal at bottom ("Vote for Rogers, Smith, Hoover") suggests this is from a 1928 election context, when Prohibition remained a contentious political issue.
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have ash the yw hi if be cis. LIFE De. Jexyir— Little Rambles with Serious Thinkers Luict Corxaro solved his problem, start- ing at forty, when given up to die by doctors. He lived to one hundred and two, mounting his horse without assist- ance at ninety-five, and wrote to the Pope: “IL had to live to be ninety years old to know that the world is beautiful.” He limited his diet to twelve ounces of solid food and fourteen ounces of light Italian wine per day. Think how long he might have lived if he had eliminated the fourteen ounces of wine and substituted fourteen ounces of good, pure, healthy, sparkling ice water.—Arthur Brisbane. I am a sort of personification of Prohibi- tion.—Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt. Food is no good unless there is a hunger for it—Dr. Frank Crane. * In the name of your forefathers—I am an American of the seventh generation—I cry out and exhort you, if you are Prot- estants, to be Protestants. Do your work as Protestants, and when the morning of November 7 comes it shall be known that Protestantism is magnificently alive. —Rev, Dr. 1. M. Haldeman of New York. I had to lie, bribe and drink to put over Prohibition in America. —Pussyfoot Johnson. All creeds and races will some day eat out of the same bowl.—Anne Nichols. No matter how sérious your troubles may be there are many others that are far worse.—Bernarr Macfadden. PERFECTLY ADAPTED Sue: You ought to be in the talking movies! He: Yeth, yeth, I gueth you're right. —anp Mr. Hyve WEAR AND TEAR Pantent (showing bill): What's this extra five dollars for? Dentist: For squeezing the arms ot my chair out of shape. Imacine the consternation of the adventuress who had lured the football captain into her room to steal the signals from him when she learned that his team used the huddle system. Tue Tauck Driver WHo Han Just Got Encacep Himsenr VOTE FOR ROGERS VOTE FOR SMITH ee oR comicbooks.com