Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, August 1922 · page 38 of 67
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This page contains philosophical aphorisms and social commentary rather than cartoons. The content critiques virtue versus vice, temptation, and modern social problems. The passage about Olaf Conner (a bank director) satirizes the era's high divorce rates by mockingly suggesting an annual publication called "Who's Whose" to track rapid divorces and remarriages—implying the situation is so chaotic it requires constant updating. This reflects 1920s anxieties about loosening marriage bonds. Other aphorisms address desire and fulfillment, with closing commentary on amateur singers losing friends before losing their voices—a light jab at aspiring performers. The tone is moralistic yet witty, typical of *Whiz Bang*, which blended satirical social observation with folk wisdom. The page reflects post-WWI American concern about changing social morality and marital instability.
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36 Captain Billy's Whiz Bang and personality, that is goodness and virtue, and truthfulness. All else is flagrant display and that is inane vice. * * * HARPS and halos or horns and hoofs, which will you choose? Both have their price. There is joy in both and sorrow in both. But in one there is never stupidity. * * * THE joy you have never had turns to bit- terness in your thoughts. You suffer after and not before a temptation. But whosoever hath drunk shall forever be athirst. Some drink from the cup of love and lose the hand that held the cup. He shall drink never- more. He shall be thirsty evermore. * * * OLAF CONNER, one of the directors of the Security Bank of Robbinsdale, sug- gests that to keep people correctly in- formed in these days of rapid divorce and re