Judge, 1929-08-17 · page 11 of 36
Judge — August 17, 1929 — page 11: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page satirizes President Calvin Coolidge through absurdist humor typical of 1920s political satire. The main story parodies the popular "Fu Manchu" fictional villain—a Yellow Peril stereotype—by imagining Coolidge entangled with a Chinese criminal organization over stolen gauze. The joke mocks Coolidge's famously taciturn, emotionless personality; even when kidnapped and supposedly shot, he remains deadpan. The accompanying cartoons lampoon domestic life: "Dobson's bumper" shows a man repeatedly crashing cars until adopting bumpers (satirizing impractical solutions), while the lower cartoons joke about fathers changing babies' diapers and struggling with paper napkins—gentle humor about evolving gender roles. The Fu Manchu references reflect period anxieties about Asian immigration and stereotypical "Oriental" villainy—attitudes now recognized as racist. The satire's targets were Coolidge's wooden public persona and contemporary social customs.
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JUDGE him, they announced that every third hand was roodles ordered him to eat medicated ga and crea Obviously this Chinese had stolen the gauze and was being trailed by the notorious Fu-Man- chu gauze ring, for he was found floppo the next day in a deserted lot on the outskirts of the city. The fine Chinese hand of Fu- Manchu was immediately detec- ted by secret service men. When Coolidge returned to Northamp- ton, the precious gauze went with him. Fu-Manchu's agents there- upon rented the other half of Coolidge’s two-family villa, bored holes in the connecting walls and in Coolidge, and listened. After five weeks of silence, they heard "Now Mr. Coolidge say y was the time to strike They posted a C front of the house Dunhill, “He began to whistle ‘On the Road to Mandala the Flying Knishes Play’. Coolidge ran to the window and they seized him in a trice and bore him a . What sort of a trice was used, Capt. Dunhill? A Chinese tri averred the bulldog of justice, “probably with copper handles and no rumble seat. And that’s the last we've seen of him.” He had hardly concluded when Mr. Coolidg in the doorway, attired in’ a fri buckskin suit and Iroquois bonnet. As reporters crowded around him, he smiled slightly und immediately apologized for it. “Well, boys,” he said can remember is a red h nd when I came to, there I was with the smoking pistol in my hand.” “How is ‘Red’ Hayes?" asked one reporter cagerly, “I haven't seen him since he took off the deep end.” He was quickly em- balmed amid laughter and turned over to the deck steward for dis- posal. Mr. Coolidge will be tried next Wednesday for shooting quails and will probably be found not guilty. His defense will be that the quails ked him. Watch for JUDGI count of the Coolidge Quail trial, appearing in an carly issue. all I Dobson’s bumper was always getting smashed until he got this brilliant idea. Low Of course it’s all right for papa to wheel the baby, but it's time he had his glasses changed. Tue Worn Terxs Father rebels against the paper napkin. ‘omicbooks.com i | | | | | |