Judge, 1929-02-16 · page 11 of 36
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# Analysis of "I Know a Girl" This humor piece by Carroll Carroll satirizes a woman's profound ignorance about aviation—a cutting-edge topic in the 1920s. The author repeatedly attempts to discuss modern flight achievements (the Wright brothers, Charles Lindbergh, the Whirlwind engine, Lieutenant Spatz's endurance records), but she consistently misunderstands or deflects. Her confusion is deliberate comedy: she thinks "struts" are dances, confuses Lindbergh with a Pennsylvania town, and believes Levine is a pilot rather than understanding his actual significance. Most absurdly, when asked about helicopters, she asks why he's changing the subject to "prehistoric animals." The accompanying cartoon shows a man at a desk with a "No Tipping Allowed" sign, confronted by another man—illustrating society's class anxieties about propriety and behavior. The satire targets both willful female ignorance about modern achievement and the broader cultural gap between aviation's rapid advancement and public understanding of it.
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JUDGE I Know a Girl— . | She thinks airplanes ar penter’s tools, and that struts. negro dances; but she say: literally all up in. the aviation, She says she thinks the whole world is going to leave the ground and float around in space some day, When [ told her my brother had got his wings in the war she took my hand, looked deep into my eyes and said: “You put it beautifully. I'm sure any man who made the supreme. sacrif for his country went to heaven.” I told her I thought the inven- tion of the W t Whirlwind or was one of the greatest m forward steps aviation had ever made and she responded with, Naturally. you never know when t whirlwind is coming up and if > right motor where are you?" 1 couldn't answer that one, She thinks the law of gravity is an amendment to the tution you haven't: gi says she doesn’t beliew . She says she doesn’t believe in’ dictating to anyone which way he should She says a man should be able to go his own way, up or down, and stand or fall on his merit, She thinks Lindbergh is a town in Pennsylv: that Chamber- ) upstairs maid and that Levine is an aviator. When I asked her what she thought about the helicopter she asked me why I wanted to change the subject’ and. start talk about prehistoric animals. She said she wouldn't mind so much lain is ¢ only she was absolutely dumb about them, I said I thought the endurance of Licutenant Spatz was wonder- ful and she said she thought spats were too siss rmy officers, nd that they shouldn't be allowed. —Carnott Carron even lieuten. a dangerous job, ne ushers are under milita pline. Suppose one ¢ should forget himself and fall asle Falling asleep while on duty is a serious offense. ‘The culprit would undoubtedly have to face a firing squad. comicbooks.com