October 30, 1920. Drum Major, Imitating Mother, the Australian Communist Party, and Parking

 

On this day in 1920 the Saturday Evening Post's cover was graced by a J. C. Leyendecker illustration of a band major.

Usually scenes like this were topical, but this one was clearly not.  In October the only kids who would be wearing the old fashioned (dare we say it) "wife beater" type of t-shirt would have had to live in the deep South, as the cool weather would have set in everywhere else. And at this time of year, bands weren't marching.

Judge had a classic scene, now probably regarded as un-woke, of a little girl mimicking her elders conduct, something that still occurs, acknowledged by society or not.

Also on this day, the Australian Communist Party formed.

It's little remembered today, but the Australian Communist Party, which dissolved in 1991, was a powerful party in its day.  Some credit the Irish Australians and the Catholic Church, of which they were members of stemming it tide, although certainly that was only partially true, and while the party dissolved in 1991, lingering left wing resentment is credited by some with the charade of a trial delivered to Cardinal Pell which was later overturned, something that will stand with the Dred Scott decision in the United States as a shameful national blight on a nation's legal system.  The party went into a steep decline after the full horrors of Soviet Communism started to be revealed after World War Two, although strongly left wing sentiments in some Australian political parties remain.