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# Political & Social Satire in Judge Magazine This page contains three distinct pieces of 1920s American satire: **"The Athletic Lover"** is a humorous poem about masculine contradiction—a powerful athlete fearless in physical contests becomes terrified when romantically involved and must ask his girlfriend's father for her hand. **"Our Scratchy Cat"** comprises brief political quips mocking post-WWI America. References include: Kaiser Wilhelm II (German ruler) facing legal consequences as Americans end Prohibition; the "Lost and Reward Columns" (unclear reference); "Roundheads and Cavaliers" replaced by "Square-heads and Profiteers" (war profiteers); and speculation about appointing a Methodist prohibitionist as Ambassador to Ireland—satirizing both American moral rigidity and Irish-American relations. **"Hardly Worth While"** depicts an opera house owner refusing to rent to a traveling "Uncle Tom's Cabin" theatrical company, claiming movies have destroyed live entertainment's profitability. It satirizes entertainment industry decline during the cinema boom. The cartoons mock contemporary anxieties: gender relations, post-war politics, Prohibition, and technological disruption of traditional entertainment.
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