Judge — May 28, 1927 — page 6: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# "The World's Most Pitiful Cases—VI" This cartoon satirizes a teetotaler (abstainer from alcohol) who took up golf "for the contracts"—meaning business dealings conducted through golf outings. The sketch shows a courtroom scene where a judge presides over what appears to be a legal proceeding, with numerous men in suits observing or participating. The satire targets the hypocrisy of prohibition-era teetotalers who claimed moral superiority while actually engaging in business networking at golf clubs—venues historically associated with drinking and social arrangements. The "pitiful case" is the teetotaler's contradiction: adopting alcohol abstinence on principle while still participating in the social/business culture that justified drinking in the first place. It's commentary on selective moralism during Prohibition.