Life, 1929-01-04 · page 21 of 36
Life — January 4, 1929 — page 21: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains brief satirical news items and cartoons typical of Life's humor format. **Top cartoon** depicts a stern father threatening to send a whining child to "the taxidermists"—visual humor about parental exasperation with complaining. **News items satirize**: - Congressman Kvale's inconsistency (once calling Volstead "too wet," now calling Hoover "too warlike")—the joke being he's unreasonably critical either way - A bachelor moved to marry by a cartoon about single loneliness, with dark humor suggesting divorce will follow - A Brooklyn radio theft where a hidden radio announcer at Station WEAF broadcasts from under a parked car, interrupting a police investigation - A complex Connecticut wedding involving two families exchanging partners (the "Buttonhook" reference is unclear without more context) - Brief items about assault and a chemist's "fearful" new gas The final quip suggests war itself is the most frightening "gas"—likely referencing WWI chemical weapons, still topical in this era.
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WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 21— Congressman Kvale from Minnesota who once complained that Andrew Volstead was too wet complained in a speech be- fore Congress last week that Hoover was too warlike. Someone should complain that Mr. Kvale is too amiable. BACHELOR TURNS BENEDICT AFTER SEEING CARTOON A middle aged bachelor recently saw a cartoon in the New York World de- picting the loneliness of single life and immediately went out and got married. The next step will be to read a tabloid and go out and get a divorce. NEW YORK, N. Y., Dec. 22—Patrick Juinan, 31, entered the Radio store of c Henry Polak, Court St., Brooklyn, picked | up an expensive battery set, with self- contained antenna, and dashed out. Polak, shouting, also dashed out, and grabbed a policeman but all they could see were casual passersby. Very much baffled they finally approached a man seated placidly on the running board of a parked car and asked him whether he had seen the thief. “No, certainly not,” said the man, but at that moment, from under his feet, a deep voice announced, “This is Station WEAF.” As the policeman and shop- owner eyed the man suspiciously, a full orchestra, from the region of his feet, be- gan to play “Kiss Me Again.” WILLINGTON, Conn., Dec. 12>—Two sisters and a brother of one family and two brothers and a sister of another family will be married at the Willington Church here on Saturday. The contracting couples are Ralph Parizek and Amelia Hipsky. Charles Parizek and Irene Hipsky and Paul Hipsky and Barbara Parizek. The Parizeks are owners of the Parizek Brothers pearl button mill. The Hipskys were certainly there with the Buttonhook. : JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Dec. 14— Joseph Buzak paid $250 yesterday for punching income tax collector in jaw. Fine. CHICAGO, Ill., Dec. 22—A new gas too fearful to be used in war has been reported by Dr. Hilton Ira Jones, inter- nationally known chemist. Tt can’t be any more fearful than the gas used to start wars. comicbooks.com