Life, 1929-08-02 · page 36 of 40
Life — August 2, 1929 — page 36: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertisements and articles**, not political cartoons. The main content includes: **"Life in Washington"** satirizes contemporary 1920s politics: the Treasury Department's new, smaller paper currency (two-thirds the old size, worth proportionally less); Senator Smoot's "flexible" tariff on sugar (benefiting farmers at consumers' expense); international trade tensions with Europe and Canada over American tariffs; and Washington D.C.'s Chamber of Commerce denying the city's notorious summer heat while people literally died from heat prostration that same week. The final joke compares Congress to a "tocless chicken"—a breeding experiment mentioned in the article—implying Congress is equally useless or absurd. The remainder of the page consists of period advertisements for Richardson boats, Panama Pacific shipping lines, and Planters Salted Peanuts.
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HIS 28 foot Richardson Day Cruisabout and her sister ships, the Master and Fore and Aft Cabin Cruis- abouts, are illustrated and described in the new Richardson Cruisabout booklet “B". A free copy will be mailed at your re- uest. Send for it to- lay! The Cruisabouts are displayed in New York City by Bruns, Kimball & Co., Fifth Ave., at Fifteenth St. Richardson Boat Co., Inc. 317 Sweeney St., N. Tonawanda, New York Richardson Cruisabouts NEW YORK #0 and from CALIFORNIA via HAVANA and the PANAMA CANAL New SS. Virginiaand S. S, California (largest steamers ever built under the American flag), or the popular S. S. Mongolia. rk} days Coast-to-Coast— 5,000 miles over breeze-fanned seas. Fortnightly via Havana, Panama Canal, San Diego (Coronado Beach), Los Angeles, San Fran- cisco—in either direction. Water-and-Rail Round Trips From your home town back to your hometown.Steamer either way. Choice of rail routes across the continent, with stopovers, Reduced Summer Panama Pacific liner, S. S, Pennipicania, now build-| ing. Maiden voyage from New York October 19. ogee a Ponoma facifie fine INTERNATIONAL MERCANTILE MARINE COMPANY. No. preps erony ppt igen No, Michigan Ave., cat see er euthorioed steacrahtp or'retireed apeete, Life in Washington HE Treasury Department has taken advantage of the silly sea- son to introduce the new paper cur- rency amid a bombardment of wise- cracks from all the nation’s colum- nists. The new money is only two- thirds as large as the old pre-war stuff. Tt will buy only two-thirds as much. And that’s that. The Tariff has been making whoo- pee the last few days. Senator Smoot’s “flexible” sugar schedule is designed to make six-cent sugar a certitude. Six cents for the farmer but ten for the customer. Thirty-eight nations (subse- quently geduced to twenty-five), protested against the new rates, in- cluding—in Will Rogers’ magnificent phrase—the United States. In retalia- tion, Europe is talking of combining into a single customs union and the British Empire talks of “imperial pref- erence”, meaning the same thing. But, after they see what trouble we have in making a tariff, how any sane person expects Europe or the British Empire to combine along tariff lines, is one of the mysteries of international politics. In the meantime, the Ameri- can press made a fine fool of itself by solemnly reporting that Canada had threatened reprisals in the shape of a British tariff. on American wheat, which is as though the United States threatened reprisals in the shape of an Argentine tariff on British cotton goods. Our local Chamber of Commerce had added to the long and unanswer- able list of “Americana” by decrying what it terms “hot-weather _ propa- ganda” about Washington. Washing- ton, according to the Chamber of Com- merce, is an ideal summer resort. Talk of excessive heat is bad for business, scares tourists away and is incompat- ible with the national dignity. In the same week which witnessed this meteorological outburst, five negroes and one Asiatic succumbed to heat prostration in the national capital. As a result of their victory in the recent election in the Union of South Africa, it is expected that the National- ists will open a Legation at Washing- ton. General Smuts, the defeated can- didate, will naturally have the privi- lege of coming here on a lecture tour. A man in Omaha, Nebraska, has suc- ceeded in breeding a tocless chicken. Congress long ago succeeded in pro- ducing a similar variety of duck, but doesn’t boast about it. The White House telephone number has been BROWN «0 WHOLESO) Not even a dip in the surf can create such an appetite as can a whiff of the aroma of Planters Salted Peanuts. Big, husky Peanuts — toasted as brown as a lifeguard. Salted like a breath of sea air. Wholesome as a dash through the spray. Nour- ishing. Healthful. ‘‘The Nickel Lunch."" Sold only in the glas- sine bag with MR. PEANUT on it. Buy a bag every day. PLANTERS NUT & CHOCOLATE COMPANY U.S, A. and Canada PLANTERS SALTED PEANUTS changed for the first time in twenty: nine years, but what of it? Two American flyers remained 246 hours up in the air. This, it has been pointed out, is not regarded as a record in po litical circles. |. F. No tonic better than Abbott's Bitters, Sa mail, 25 cts. C. W. Abbott & Co, Baltimore, A stenographer evidently thinks the bell on her typewriter rings when she reaches the end of every line to remind her to powder her nose. —Tom Sims for Kay Features. Ina Pinch, use ALLEN’S FOOT ~ EASE An old toothbrush is very good for applying a cleaner to a last summer's straw hat before throwing away the hat. —Detroit News. WE_ HANDLE THE LEADING MINERAL WATERS OF EUROPE & AMERICA. WRITE FOR OUR DESCRIPTIVE PRICE LIST AND rinpouty WHAT THESE WA- TERS ARE GOOD WHETHER AILING oR WELL, WE CAN HELP YOU. MORRIS & SCHRADER 'tiyvox" comicbooks.com