Judge — December 15, 1928 — page 11: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Analysis This page contains two cartoons satirizing anti-intellectualism and class conflict. **Top cartoon**: Children holding a sign reading "THERE ISN'T ANY SANTA CLAUS" confront an adult, illustrating the caption about intellectualism being unrewarding—the harsh truth-telling of the "intellectual" destroys others' joy. **Bottom cartoon**: A truck driver (labeled "LONG DISTANCE") whose vehicle has hit and demolished a motorist's car claims good nature rather than anger about the accident. The satire targets working-class figures who boast of their temperament while causing damage, suggesting crude toughness masquerades as virtue. Both cartoons mock different social types—the pedantic intellectual and the blunt laborer—for their respective failings. The humor derives from period class tensions and stereotypes about education, sensibility, and working-class behavior.