Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, July 1922 · page 11 of 67
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This page contains editorial commentary from "Captain Billy's Whiz Bang," a satirical magazine. The main text criticizes manuscript submissions for poor physical presentation—writers using odd paper scraps, single-spacing, double-sided writing, and illegible handwriting. The second section references a reader complaint: "The Kansas Swede" corrects the magazine for mistakenly calling undertakers medical professionals. The reader sardonically argues undertakers are "scabbing" (stealing work) from buzzards—a crude joke implying undertakers are parasites profiting from death, just as buzzards scavenge corpses. There is no visible cartoon on this page. The content is primarily editorializing and reader correspondence typical of early 20th-century magazine filler material. The tone reflects the magazine's general irreverence toward respectable professions and social pretense.
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10 Captain Billy's Whiz Bang In perusing the dozens of manuscripts that have been entered in the contest it has struck me rather forcibly that about fifty per cent of the contributors take only slight pains with their copy. Some embryonic writers seem to take especial delight in writing on odds and ends of paper; others single-space, making it nearly impossible to correct misspelled words and other errors; then again, some write on both sides of the papers and still others employ long hand with little attempt at legibility. However, it is the dull man who does everything right and by the same token it is the always-right man who is the ignoramus dullard. So the editor will be glad to receive your manuscript and enter it in the contests. You may write of the personal experiences of a wife, sweetheart, a husband or lover; the con man, thief, gambler, harlot or of the higher professions of life. Let's have it. America's “Magazine of Real Life” will be out July 15th. It will be a corker. * * * A WHIZ BANG fan who signs himself “The Kansas Swede,” writes to inform that we made a mistake recently in describing an undertaker as a man who follows the medical profession. In this writer's estimation our friends of the modern mortuary parlor are “scabbing” on the buzzards. Nevertheless, Lieutenant Walter Bullock, my Breezy