Life — December 5, 1930 — page 10: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# "Hare Today, Gone Tomorrow" Cartoon Analysis The cartoon depicts a man being force-fed or having something shoved down his throat by what appears to be a rabbit or hare character. The caption reads "Hare today / gone to[morrow]" — a pun on the common expression "here today, gone tomorrow." The accompanying text explains that rabbits are being shipped from Texas to New Jersey to replenish that state's vanishing wild hare population, noting it was "not considered practicable to rub New Jersey with hare restorer." The cartoon satirizes this wildlife restocking effort through physical comedy: the man is being force-fed rabbits as an absurdist "solution" to the hare shortage — mocking both the restocking program and New Jersey's ecological decline during the Depression era.