Everett True meets a sealion (October 24, 1919)
Everett True meets a sealion (October 24, 1919)
Printed 105 years ago today in The Daily Graphic (Pine Bluff, Arkansas.) Image cleaned up, see the original.
Found on the Library of Congress site.
The League of Nations (LN or LoN; French: Société des Nations [sɔsjete de nɑsjɔ̃], SdN) was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace.[1] It was founded on 10 January 1920 by the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. The main organisation ceased operations on 18 April 1946 when many of its components were relocated into the new United Nations. As the template for modern global governance, the League profoundly shaped the modern world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Nations
Sealioning (also sea-lioning and sea lioning) is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with relentless requests for evidence, often tangential or previously addressed, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity ("I'm just trying to have a debate"), and feigning ignorance of the subject matter.[1][2][3][4] It may take the form of "incessant, bad-faith invitations to engage in debate",[5] and has been likened to a denial-of-service attack targeted at human beings.
The page containing this cartoon has an interesting story on the effects of US Alcohol Prohibition, which was starting to come into force:
New York Cafes Not Serving Drinks
New York, Oct. 23.—It was hard to buy a drink in New York today. Arrests of federal agents accused of grafting and indications that one of them would turn state’s evidence, scared cafes, cabarets' and motor inns, where hitherto nothing but the price has been necessary in order to satisfy any alcholic craving as fully as before wartime prohibition went into effect. With five men, including three federal agents, held for hearing, supoenas were issued for a score of prominent cafe owners and several politicians to appeaer before a federal grand jury.
The context was the impending Constitutional Prohibition on alcohol, which was building on wartime (WWI) prohibition:
On November 18, 1918, prior to ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment, the U.S. Congress passed the temporary Wartime Prohibition Act, which banned the sale of alcoholic beverages having an alcohol content of greater than 1.28%.[13] This act, which had been intended to save grain for the war effort, was passed ten days after the armistice ending World War I was signed, on November 21, 1918.[14] The Wartime Prohibition Act took effect June 30, 1919, with July 1 becoming known as the "Thirsty First".[15][16]
The U.S. Senate proposed the Eighteenth Amendment on December 18, 1917. Upon being approved by a 36th state on January 16, 1919, the amendment was ratified as a part of the Constitution. By the terms of the amendment, the country went dry one year later, on January 17, 1920.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_States
What's the universe like where prohibition was embraced and drinking was non-existent in the US? I can't even think how that would have impacted several generations forward... like a crazy butterfly effect.
Honestly, we’d probably have become even more weirdly religious (and Prohibition was in part driven by anti-immigrant sentiment, so that might have also grown), but wouldn’t it be nice to imagine a less belligerent America? We’d definitely have fewer traffic accidents though.
Prohibition would not have removed drinking. Maybe it would have reduced it, but it would have made the current drug problem 3x worse, and given a lot more money to organized crime. The US probably would have been in a worse place overall
Drinking and driving is a problem though, and that being lessened would have been a good thing. But then again, you don't need to ban alcohol to solve that problem. Introduce actual and functioning public transport
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