Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, July 1921 · page 4 of 68
Captain Billy's Whiz Bang #22 — page 4: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is a **title page** from *Whiz-Bang*, a 1921 satirical magazine edited by a Spanish-American War and WWI veteran. The page leads with a Theodore Roosevelt quote emphasizing undivided American loyalty—likely referencing post-WWI concerns about immigrant communities and "hyphenated Americans" maintaining ties to foreign homelands, a major political anxiety of that era. The copyright and union label indicate this was a union-printed publication. The dedication to U.S. fighting forces suggests the magazine positioned itself as patriotic. The Roosevelt quote sets the ideological tone: emphasizing singular national allegiance during a period of heightened nativism and suspicion of dual loyalties following World War I.
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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 LABEL COUNCIL MINNEAPOLIS 12 Edited by a Spanish and World War Veteran and dedicated to the fighting forces of the United States