Life, 1929-01-11 · page 17 of 36
Life — January 11, 1929 — page 17: what you’re looking at
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**Main Cartoon (Top):** "Taxi Driver: Hey, mister, ye've been in a wreck!" depicts a comically wrecked car surrounded by disheveled passengers and debris. This satirizes reckless driving or automobile accidents—a growing concern in the 1920s as cars became more common. **Bottom Section:** Three brief news items with satirical commentary: - **Milan**: Mussolini discharged thirty telephone operators for disobedience, with the italicized joke "They're the same the world over, always making the wrong connections." - **Moscow**: Soviet negotiations with Henry Ford regarding factory construction—mocking both Soviet-American relations and the "Ford joke/Bolshevik joke." - **Copenhagen**: Danish theaters facing financial hardship under state operation, satirizing government mismanagement. The secondary cartoon (bottom right) depicts a householder displaying weapons to someone, using threatening slang humor.
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15 Taxi Driver: Hey, mister, ye’ve been in a wreck! Little Rambles With Serious Thinkers Propasty it is true that one can catch a cold by kissing. Heywood Broun. A beef steak is just as much an indi- cation of affection as a bunch of orchids. Dorothy Dix. I happen to be a European and, there- fore, a civilized person. St. John Ervine. Every woman is, fundamentally a woman. Louis E. Bisch, M.D., Ph.D. Not pleasant liquor, that bootleg stuff. Parents should find some way to per- suade promising young boys not to drink it. Arthur Brisbane. Tt has been my experience that tall women are generally dull conversational- | ists. George Jean Nathan. | One woman is enough for any man. H. L. Mencken. | Ihave yet to find a single fact in sup- : of evolution. John Roach Straton. Biography gives one a lot to think about. Bruce Barton. Hoover gave us meatless days and so too will he give us cocktail-less parties. Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt. MILAN, Italy, Dec. 27.—The newspa- per Il Secole said today that intervention | by Premier Mussolini had saved thirty} _, telephone operators their jobs. The girls were discharged when they disobeyed the | rules of the company by getting married. | They're the same the world over, always | making the wrong connections. | MOSCOW, Dec. 21.—Soviet officials to- day confirmed a report that the govern- ment is negotiating with Henry Ford for construction of a factory in this country | with a capacity of 100,000 automobiles a | year. Coming—a merger of the Ford joke and Bolshevik joke. COPENHAGEN — The legitimate} stage has fallen on evil days in Denmark. | The state theater, including the royal opera, is being run at a heavy loss and privately owned theaters are in a worse plight. Something is rotten in the state| Housenoiver: Would you mind taking my collection of weapons? Th’ gang will kid the of Denmark. | life outa me if you don’t. comicbooks.com