Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, July 1922 · page 37 of 67
Captain Billy's Whiz Bang #35 — page 37: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains no cartoon—only aphoristic satirical sayings typical of the publication's humor style. The content targets early-20th-century social attitudes and reformers. Key targets include: **Anti-modernism**: The magazine mocks those who romanticize the "good old days" while complaining about jazz and automobiles—the text suggests their nostalgia is selective and uninformed. **Gender roles**: "The hands that roll the stockings" (women's domestic work) versus those who "rule the world" reflects contemporary class and gender divisions. **Reformers**: The final quip satirizes moral crusaders as hypocritical—they advocate for reform, then criticize the results, suggesting performative rather than genuine conviction. The sayings use folk-wisdom tone to deflate pretension and self-righteousness. Overall, *Whiz Bang* positions itself as cynically pragmatic against both nostalgists and self-appointed moral improvers.
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36 Captain Billy's Whiz Bang absolutely true. These are the only people we never forgive. * * * *Knowledge is a weight added to your con- science and conscience is the policeman of your soul.* * * * The hands that roll the stockings are not the hands that rule the world. * * * They howl about the terrible twentieth cen- tury and its jazz and wild auto rides—but— we'd hear a thing or two about the “good old days” if the old fashioned wagon tongues could speak. * * * A scolding fool is worst of any; Two in one house is overmany. * * * You must risk a chance or go without; You must lose a fly to catch a trout. * * * Who deals with honey, or round it lingers, Will oftentimes be licking his fingers. * * * Jack fell down the hill, but still, Jack is just as good as Jill. * * * The world is a staircase of wide renown; Some are going up, and some are coming down. * * * A reformer is a gink who smiles and then frowns because he did it.