Judge, 1925-06-13 · page 23 of 36
Judge — June 13, 1925 — page 23: what you’re looking at
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This page collects humorous quotes and jokes satirizing various social "leaders" and authority figures. The content includes: **Visual elements**: A diving figure (possibly representing leadership's risky ventures), two men in formal dress (likely politicians or society figures), period illustrations of groups and domestic scenes. **Satirical targets**: The jokes mock pretension and hypocrisy among the educated classes—romantic poets who lack courage, businessmen compromising ethics, scholars cheating, and authority figures behaving foolishly. **Notable**: Several jokes use racial dialect humor (common in early 20th-century American humor, now recognized as offensive). References to "Chinamen," casual racism, and ethnic caricature reflect period attitudes. **The satire's point**: Authority figures—whether poets, businessmen, engineers, or judges—are exposed as self-serving hypocrites who contradict their own principles. The page ridicules pretentious "leadership" across society's hierarchies. The specific attributions (California Pelican, Washington Dirge, Yale Record, etc.) suggest these jokes were reprinted from college and university humor publications.
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