Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, August 1921 · page 4 of 68
Captain Billy's Whiz Bang #23 — page 4: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is a title/dedication page from *Whiz-Bang* magazine (1921), not a cartoon page. It features a Theodore Roosevelt quote emphasizing singular American patriotism—likely responding to post-WWI anxieties about hyphenated identities and divided loyalties among immigrants and ethnic communities. The quote reflects Roosevelt's well-known nativist stance on assimilation. The page notes the editor is a Spanish-American War and World War I veteran, positioning the magazine as patriotic. This framing suggests *Whiz-Bang* positioned itself as advocating for undivided American loyalty during a period of significant immigration restriction debates and Red Scare concerns about foreign influences in America.
📄 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 Edited by a Spanish and World War Veteran and dedicated to the fighting forces of the United States