Judge — January 3, 1920 — page 21: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page satirizes Prohibition-era temperance campaigns, particularly the "Pussyfoot" anti-alcohol movement. The top panels mock various newspaper takes on alcohol's dangers—depicted as a destroyed monument and a wrecked barrel. The central panel caricatures G.K. Chesterton (identifiable by caption), a prominent British writer whom temperance advocates had enlisted to support their cause. The satire suggests the irony of using a man known for enjoying life's pleasures to promote abstinence. Lower panels show typical Prohibition rhetoric—"Get a Bulge on the Booze Trade"—alongside cartoon vignettes depicting drinking's supposed consequences. The final panel ("Yessir!") appears to show obedient compliance with anti-alcohol messaging. Judge presents this as absurd moral panic, mocking both the temperance movement's exaggeration and the gullibility of newspapers amplifying these claims.