Judge, 1925-08-29 · page 27 of 36
Judge — August 29, 1925 — page 27: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page collects brief satirical quips mocking contemporary figures and headlines. Key targets include: **Political figures**: Mayor Hylan (NYC) seeking favorable press; Frank Waterman (Republican mayoral candidate), mocked for his fountain pen business with a pun about him being a "self-filler." **Social commentary**: A headline about pedestrians being "killed" by cars is twisted to suggest pedestrians are "becoming extinct"—dark humor about automobile fatalities. Prohibition-era dry agents shooting bootleggers puts them "on a par" morally. A hotel detective's admission of voyeurism in divorce proceedings is sarcastically praised as fitting for a "Purity League." **Ku Klux Klan**: Edward Young Clarke, former KKK leader, now runs a motion picture club—the joke being "you can't keep a good wizard down," sarcastically suggesting his continued influence despite leaving the Klan. The cartoon below shows a couple's mutual bewilderment about how long they've been together, likely satirizing shallow social interactions.
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Dr. Hans Hartman—*Knowledge of the sea and its treasures is closely bound up with the future of the hu- Newspaper Headline — “Monkey Upsets Dignity of Fifth Avenue.” Having already upset the dignity of the United States. Col. M. B. Stewart, in Scribner’s— “I would tell him (my boy) that if he didn’t grow up to be a mighty sight better than his dad had been, I would regard him as a failure.” Meaning no disrespect to Colonel Stewart, but—maybe the neighbors would, too. Baroness Mildred de Vryes van Doesburgh—“My husband is too noble even to know how to work.” At that rate how many of us must belong to the aristocracy! Mayor John F. Hylan—‘Please say a good word for me.” JUDGE REMARKS Newspaper Headline—‘*More Cars in Jersey But They Kill Fewer.” Evidently the pedestrian is becoming extinct. Newspaper Headline—“Dry to Shoot Only in Self-defens That puts them on a par with the other bootleggers. Nathan Douchey, ninety-one, of Troy, N. Y.—‘*Man was made to live. Dying comes afterward.” Philadelphia papers please copy. =] Judge Mancuso, New York—“A jury slacker is not less nor any dif- ferent from one who dodges the draft.” Has Dempsey ever served on a jury? Hotel Detective in Scott Divorce Trial.—*T have peeked through lots of keyholes.” He belongs in some Purity League. Frank D. Waterman, Republican designee for Mayor of New York, is the fountain pen man. Is he a self-filler, and how often does he run dry? The Anti-Saloon Teague wonts to know, Edward Young Clarke, former Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, is chief organizer of the Twen- tieth Century Motion Picture and Dramatic Club which is selling mer- berships at $100 each. You can't keep a good wizard down. Mr. Porrs—It’s wonderful to think I have been with you all evening! SuE—It’s amazing! Have you been with me all evening?