Judge, 1924-11-01 · page 15 of 36
Judge — November 1, 1924 — page 15: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This Judge magazine page satirizes the hypocrisy of "100 Percenters"—white supremacists and KKK members who claimed to champion "Nordic Americans" and ethnic purity. The top cartoon shows two men discussing a wife learning to "fly," likely a euphemism for infidelity or scandal. The main satire is the restaurant menu: despite the cafeteria being "crowded with 100 per cent., white, Nordic Americans" after a Klan parade, the orders reveal the supposed ethnic purity is a sham. Patrons order **Irish stews, Swiss cheese, Hamburg steaks, French fries, German fried potatoes, English mutton, Hungarian goulash, and Chinese chop suey**—dishes from the very immigrant groups the Klan despised and discriminated against. The joke exposes the contradictions of nativist ideology: these self-proclaimed defenders of American racial purity eagerly consumed and embraced the foods and cultures of immigrants they publicly rejected. Their intolerance couldn't survive basic appetite. The bottom cartoon about "the golfer's conception" of Hell appears unrelated to the main satire.
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One Hundred Percenters in Action Overs shot into the kitchen of ~ the Busy Bee White Front Cafeteria on Main street immedi- ately after the Klan nde, and that popular cating place was crowded with 100) per cent., white, Nordic Americans. Three Irish stews. Three pigs knuckles and sauer- kraut—make it four, One sweitzer cheese with a Ber- muda onion. Two Hamburg steaks with French fried potatoes. A cup of coffee and French rolls. potatoe: A plate of macaroni, : English tea, » of English mutton and with the jackets on. an goulash; make it hot. Four chop sueys. John Flanagan “Dre been teaching my wife to fly.” By their donations some. philan- thropists reveal the sad fact that it is frequently the head rather than the heart that is soft Some fellows dance all night for nothing; others become professional fighters and collect: big money: for doing the same thing.