Judge, 1923-12-01 · page 9 of 36
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# "With Clive Weed in Paris" - Political Cartoon Analysis This is a **humorous instructional cartoon** depicting how to order a beer in Paris while speaking French "without a struggle." The four sequential panels show an increasingly exaggerated pantomime: a man first gestures with his hands to a waiter, then points emphatically, then acts out drinking motions, and finally receives his beer. The satire targets **American tourists' linguistic incompetence abroad**—mocking the stereotype that Americans traveling in France resort to physical gestures and charades rather than attempting the language. The caption's ironic phrase "without a struggle" undercuts itself; the cartoon shows considerable struggle. Below, the text includes separate satirical notes about American aristocracy (mocking pretense) and Henry Ford's political power (suggesting Ford dealerships would support him "almost unanimously"). The cartoonist is Chef Johnson. This reflects early 20th-century American anxieties about international travel and cultural sophistication.
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on Rattlesnake Flats Notes by Chet Tohneon | Pac who stopped near the city limits to pet a 4 gray cat on pay day last week and didn’t find out at first that it wasn’t a cat, dug up his clothes yesterday and says that maybe after all he'll be able to go to the Mystery Maids’ dance to-morrow night, for a little while, anyhow. + * & The city council met last night and nothing of importance happened, but the mayor a f of police and two council- men was shot during a slight difference of opinion regarding the get-up of the plan for peace that Rattlesnake Flats is to send back East to a feller named Bok for $100,000, WITH CLIVE WEED IN PARIS French without a struggle; or how to buy a beer. And there you are! Historian—Talk about American aristocracy! Why, this country was settled by crooks, debtors and men let out of jail! Philosopher—Well, [see we all got here. ott One thing is certain—if Henry Ford. runs, he'll carry: the Ford agencies, almost unanimously. st “You are not doing much business.” suggested — the dentist across the hall : much,” admitted the other dentist, this mark of apparent sympathy. “Then would you mind if some of my paticnts used your waiting-room?” touched by