Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, June 1921 · page 3 of 67
Captain Billy's Whiz Bang #21 — page 3: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is a title page from *Whiz-Bang*, a 1921 satirical magazine edited by W. H. Fawcett (identified as a Spanish-American War and World War I veteran). The Roosevelt quote at the top emphasizes singular American patriotic loyalty—likely a reference to post-WWI anxieties about immigrant communities, radical ideologies, or "hyphenated Americans" divided between U.S. and foreign loyalties. This was a common nationalist political argument during the "Red Scare" period following the Russian Revolution and WWI. The page's dedication to U.S. fighting forces reinforces patriotic framing. The printer's union label indicates working-class production values typical of small magazines from this era.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
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 LABEL MINNEAPOLIS Edited by a Spanish and World War Veteran and dedicated to the fighting forces of the United States