Judge, 1928-04-21 · page 24 of 36
Judge — April 21, 1928 — page 24: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is a humor section from *Judge* magazine featuring college-themed jokes and a cartoon, likely from the late 1920s based on contributor attributions ('28, '29, '31). **The Main Cartoon** depicts a Scottish man arriving at a pier, seemingly having just walked over water. The joke plays on Scottish dialect and nautical circumstances—the caption suggests he'd have walked across had he known earlier, implying either drunkenness or absurdity. **The Jokes** satirize 1920s college culture: references to "necking" (kissing/petting—then considered scandalous), strip poker, and drinking reflect post-Prohibition youth behavior that shocked older generations. The "Civic Duty" cartoon mocks a woman kissing a policeman. **The "Youth's Consolation"** poem is self-aware satire—college contributors acknowledge their generation's wild reputation (flappers, drinking, fads) while defending themselves as harmless and entertaining to older critics. These pieces capture Jazz Age anxieties about changing youth morality, with the magazine's college audience both joking about their own rebelliousness and defending it.
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A net } Mas Somebody should tell the co- eds that neck is a noun—not a verb, —Brx Hanvy, Georgia ’28 Nice Old know you poker? et Young Thing—Oh, it's perfectly all right. Its not Lady—Don't you shouldn't play strip see we get our clothes back.” —Axonyaovs Smith College '28 Sod “What a nerve that Jady has to talk back to the traffic cop that way!" hat’s no that’s his wife.” —Henny S. Pexsveacken, Princeton "sO Indy; for Congress to decide: If we call the people from Poland Poles, why not call the people from Holland Holes? —Kennetu Funk, Stanford ’29 Something clse Scotcuman on Pte I'd ha walked over meself. (just arrived) If I'd ha’ known that, Danxtayman, Williams '29 Civic Duty “Why did you kiss that policexcoman?” “T couldn't resist an offi Youth’s Consolation You may ridicule our Derbies, and our coonskins, and our ties, You may laugh at all the fads that we are prone to. For our necking and our drink ing, to our elders’ eyes, Must seem horribly audacious —it’s been known to! But as you no doubt have noticed, we are not at all disturbed, And we don’t resent the things they say about us. We admit that we are flighty and might very well be curbed, But I ask you: What would jokesmiths do without us? —Joun P. Waters, Dartmouth '28 sober Sadye wants to know wherein- ell this guy Time's flying to? —Nicnotas Mamvra, Ohio State ’31 “What humor?” “College humor!” (Go ahead, sue us!) —Rower D. is the lowest form of Wurpon, Harvard '20 comicbooks.com