Life, 1928-11-30 · page 9 of 52
Life — November 30, 1928 — page 9: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains humor pieces targeting working-class anxieties of the early 20th century. **Top cartoon**: A man confronts another over a damaged dog, with a "Dog Catcher" wagon visible. The caption "Don't be a fool, yuh mutt! They's plenty of other dames" suggests the joke involves mistaken identity—the speaker believes the man is wrongly blaming him for the dog's injury. **"The Facts" section**: A coach lists overwhelming financial burdens (car payments, medical bills, mortgage, radio payments) while demanding his team win to keep his job. The satire mocks how common people struggled with debt while employers showed no sympathy. **Other pieces** include a college song, a section titled "Not Paupers" about managing poverty with dignity, and "The Long Arm of the Maw"—likely a domestic humor cartoon about wives managing household finances. The page reflects Depression-era concerns about financial precarity and class struggle.
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domes as we stood there with our mitts behind our backs, and felt sorrier for the al, The sick silence was broken, how- ever, when a more flippant member of the mob observed: “That's the Broadway Way. You can’t have everything! Most fellows live and learn. He merely lived.” Then the wag started whistling “Baby Shoes,” which is Broadway's sassy way of dismissing another's troubles. But believe you me, old pal, it probably is“*Melancholy Baby,” “Chloe” or some other torch ballad that The Boy Friend is requesting these nights in the various hoopla parlors alon, the old Stem, where most of us will tell you the other fellow’s troubles are never as interesting as our own. The moral of which, I guess, is: Don’t Bounce a Meatball! THE FACTS Foorsitt. Coach (to team): Listen, you chumps! They'’s three more pay- ments due on my car; I've got to meet a note in two weeks; I haven't finished paying my wife’s doctor bills yet; the house is mortgaged to the roof; I'm still making payments on my radio; the grocer, the butcher, the baker and the ice- man are hot on my trail, Now for heaven's sakes can’t you guys get in there and fight this second half so we can win the game and I won't lose my job? TRY IT, AND SEE “I pon’t see why having your car overhauled should be such a depressing experience, . “You don’t, ch? Well, it was over- hauled by a motorcycle cop.” “I'm all right in algebra and all right in feometry but what I can’t seem to under- stand is mathematics.” | | | “Don't be a fool, yuh mutt! They’s plenty of other dames.” Campus Song for a Radio College Air College, Fair College, College Democratic, Sky College, My College, Crashing through the static! Cniorvs: I am proud to sing your glories Though the kiddies’ bedume stories | Very frequently play havoc with your teachings, Or the Dixie Syncopators Jazz the classics for us fraters, As we “cut” our class to hear soprano screechings. We are for you, we adore you, In our parlors we encore you— | And in future years, successful through] | our knowledge, We'll remember self-denials And our trials at the dials On those happy nights we spent at Ether College! Arthur L. Lippmann. Hussanp: I may be detained at the office ull very late tonight—if I am, don’t wait up for me. Exrertenceo Wire (firmly): 1 won't— I'll go down and get you. NOT PAUPERS “Tue way for you to straighten out your financial difficulties is to try to live within your means from now on.” “Within our means? Certainly not! We may be poor, but we're not as badly ' off as atl that.” Tue Lone Arm or THE Maw comicbooks.com