Judge, 1930-06-21 · page 12 of 36
Judge — June 21, 1930 — page 12: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine Satire Analysis This page satirizes maritime social hierarchies and passenger complaints aboard steamships. Four ship captains discuss problems with ocean travel—specifically, how passengers want premium seating (dining tables, deck chairs) based on tenuous social connections or accomplishments. The cartoon at top depicts a canoe accessory: judges in a boat reviewing competitors, satirizing the era's obsession with competitive rankings and social status. The captains' anecdotes mock passenger entitlement: one man demands a table because he knows someone who knew someone from 1911; another suggests holding a "deck-chair contest" to award premium seating to a puzzle-solver; a third admits to sending inquisitive young women (débutantes) crawling under bunks in the engine room to discourage their complaints. The humor targets both pretentious passengers and the maritime industry's absurd solutions to social-climbing complaints. It's early 20th-century class commentary wrapped in nautical comedy.
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JUDGE Accessory for canoeists this season. A Little Prod With Neptune’s Trident By Captain Jack Cluett ovr solemn, elderly gentlemen, wearing the conven- tional weather-beaten look of seafaring men, sat ‘round a waterlogged table in the conference room of the lem,” said the captain of the Rottingham, pacing the deck of the conference room. “I have my meals served down in the stokehole.” asked the com- Black Star Steamship Line. lay a piece of rope tied in a half-hitch. The four men puffed on stubby pipes, bent to their task of shooting the sun and mending fish nets and said nothing. At last the commander of > fleet scanned the three ains through a pair of binoculars and, striking eight bells on the ship's clock, said: “Men, the peak of our oversea exodus is about to be reached, so I have called you together to 't draw up a ast set of rules nake our service a The captain of the Boom- dam finished splicing « . ser and said: “Every pas- senger I've carried wants to sit at my table in the din- ing saloon because he knows a chap named Wormley, who has a friend named Gurlick, who sat at my table in 1911.” “L've solved that prob- In the center of the table The captain of the Rollingholm munched on a ship's biscuit and said: “I think we ought to hold a dec “Gimme that worm!” “10 rium every year. : would be a deck - nd each after be eled ‘J. n Cleft Cooper, Cross-Word Puzzle Champion, Solved This Deck Chair in Six Minutes Twenty Seconds.’ ” And if he couldn't?” asked the commander of the fl “Then I'd make him go on a tour of inspection in the engine room.” The captain of the Boom- dam shipped a heavy sea and, donning a sou'wester, “T have solved the engine-room_ problem, mates. When an inquisitive débutante insists on through the engine room, I send for the assistant engi- necr. When he arrives, I tell the sweet young thing to get down on her hands and knees and crawl under her bunk. While she’s (Continued on page 31) comicbooks.com