Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, January 1921 · page 4 of 68
Captain Billy's Whiz Bang #16 — page 4: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is the title/copyright page of *Whiz-Bang*, a 1921 satirical magazine. It features a Theodore Roosevelt quote emphasizing undivided American patriotism—likely referencing post-WWI anxieties about divided loyalties, hyphenated Americans, and immigrant communities that allegedly prioritized foreign allegiances. The editor identifies as a Spanish-American War and World War I veteran, suggesting the magazine would appeal to military audiences and patriotic Americans. The publication was dedicated to U.S. fighting forces during a period of heightened nationalist sentiment following America's 1917 entry into World War I. The Roosevelt epigraph sets the magazine's patriotic, anti-cosmopolitan tone for what followed—content presumably satirizing those deemed insufficiently loyal to America or overly sympathetic to foreign interests.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
"We have room for but one soul loyalty and that is loyalty to the American People."—Theodore Roosevelt. Copyright 1921 By W. H. Fawcett ALLIED PRINTING TRADES UNION COUNCIL MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. Edited by a Spanish and World War Veteran and dedi- cated to the fighting forces of the United States.