Judge, 1930-03-22 · page 8 of 36
Judge — March 22, 1930 — page 8: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains two cartoons satirizing upper-class social conduct. **Top cartoon ("Helping Hands"):** A traffic judge stops a driver who's borrowed and damaged his friend's car. The accompanying text, attributed to Stanley Jones, satirizes how wealthy men excuse themselves from lending to friends by claiming their clubs or equipment aren't available—while actually protecting their possessions from damage. The joke critiques the pretense and selfishness underlying upper-class friendship rituals. **Bottom cartoon:** A well-dressed man has dropped gin at a delicatessen and frantically searches for it among scattered items, unwilling to leave without recovering it. This satirizes alcoholic dependency and the priorities of wealthy drinkers during Prohibition. Both cartoons mock the hypocrisy and moral failings of the privileged classes.
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Helping Hands When you have borrowed and broken your friend's pet brassie “Well, it's done now—but Td sooner try and elope with George's wife than'to have borrowed his favor ite club. He was club champion, you know, down in Washington.” “They say they can make another that is exactly the same, but I don't k So much of the thing is men “I don’t see how you managed to split the club-head like th You must have used the thing like a pick- axe, two or three times.” “Well, all I have to say is that George certainly showed ‘some re markable restraint.” “Why the dence couldn't you kave ta one of Alfred's clubs? Or mine? Sure, any of us would have 1 to lend you one. Mind you, would have been.” been “I don't want to seem pessimistic, but it’s little things like this that be- gin to force men apart. Their whole lives become wrapped up in a golf club or a tennis racket.” —Stanrey Jones “I dropped the gin, and I daren’t go home without it!” comicbooks.com