Captain Billy's Whiz Bang #3 — page 54: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page contains two literary pieces rather than political cartoons. "Old Age" is a humorous poem from *Life* magazine depicting an elderly narrator lamenting lost youth—roaming dunes, playing pranks on crawfish, and carefree days now gone. The speaker is physically deteriorating (dim eyes, weak knees, loose teeth) and resigned to decline. "River Bank Philosophy" offers brief social commentary, likely post-WWI. It satirizes modern culture: craftsmanship replaced by "graft," wartime silenced orators now proliferating, and men attending Western movies merely to see what bars look like. The final line criticizes loss of the "old-fashioned man" who took pride in honest work—suggesting post-war moral and cultural decline among contemporary society.