Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, January 1922 · page 62 of 68
Captain Billy's Whiz Bang #29 — page 62: what you’re looking at
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This page contains brief satirical jokes and witticisms typical of 1920s humor magazines. The content mocks hypocrisy and human nature: **"Honesty, the Cheap Policy"** jokes that stealing a horse earns prison time, but simply refusing to pay for one goes unpunished—satirizing selective enforcement of morality. **The Preacher/Johnnie exchange** has a boy deceive a preacher about using worms as bait, then boast that onlookers ("suckers") believed the lie—mocking both religious hypocrisy and gullibility. **"All Some Have to Tell"** cynically observes that men relish recounting youthful misdeeds regardless of age or piety, suggesting people never truly reform. **The marriage aphorism** presents divorce as the inevitable "exposure" of what marriage merely "composed"—implying matrimony masks fundamental incompatibility. **"That Waltz"** by "Georgia Cracker" fragments a romantic scene, describing a beautiful woman dancing poorly with an incompetent partner—suggesting romantic ideals clash with reality. Throughout, the humor targets human contradiction and self-deception.
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60 Captain Billy's Whiz Bang Honesty, the Cheap Policy Hear John West got two years for stealing a horse? Yes, serves him right. Why didn't he buy it and not pay? * * * Preacher—Don't you know it's wrong to put worms on that hook and insert it in a fish? Johnnie—These aren't worms, but that's what the other suckers thought. * * * The strength of a kiss is generally meas- ured by its length.—Byron. * * * All Some Have to Tell “Why is it,” asks the exchange man of The Arkansas Gazette, “that a man rarely grows too old or too religious to get a thrill out of telling what a devil he was in his youth?” * * * Man proposes, woman supposes, marriage composes and divorce exposes. * * * That Waltz BY THE GEORGIA CRACKER As the music began, the lights grew soft and dim. I watched the couples as they passed like phantoms in the darkness. Then I saw her, dancing with some wretched novice who could scarcely keep on his feet. How lovely and how wretched she looked.