This horizontal black-and-white comic strip by Rube Goldberg consists of several panels arranged in a single row, containing hand-drawn characters and extensive handwritten dialogue. The main part of the comic is two panels on the left. In the first lefthand panel, man in a coat with a cane stands in a park and says, "After experimenting in my laboratory for sixty-two years, I have at last discovered how to extract solid gold from old shoe-laces." A policeman behind him pushes him with a foot and says, "Just because you're a nut it is no reason for you to block the traffic." Below, this panel is captioned, "When an unknown man says something important he's lucky if he is not arrested—but—". To the right, the next panel shows a sidewalk where a man in fur-trimmed coat and top hat says, "The war is awful" while several people nearby react with intense focus. One person says, "That's the most startling remark made since another noted millionaire said, 'it looks like rain,'" while another suggests, "He probably is in close touch with all the monarchs of Europe," and a third thinks, "Rush down to the paper and tell the editor to get out a special edition." The caption below this panel reads, "When a famous person mumbles something foolish, he is quoted all over the world." On the far right, a four-panel sub-series titled "I NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT" depicts a man running from a police officer. The runner thinks, "I didn't do anything wrong, but there's a cop right in back of me running his head off." The officer eventually stops him, saying, "I don't want to arrest you—I'm chasing a man in front of you," to which the man replies, "I never thought of that," while sitting outside a police station. The drawing is signed "R.L. Goldberg" at the bottom.