Judge, 1930-08-30 · page 11 of 36
Judge — August 30, 1930 — page 11: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis The top cartoon satirizes reckless driving. A judge figure flies through the air as a car crashes beneath him, with the caption "Free wheeling is here!" This mocks the 1920s trend of dangerous, unregulated automobile driving—"free wheeling" refers to both literal automotive negligence and the era's general social permissiveness. The judge's airborne predicament suggests that even authority figures cannot escape the chaos of modern, irresponsible motoring. The lower illustration and Carroll Carroll's essay mock a woman's profound ignorance of upper-class leisure activities (polo, tennis, golf, country clubs, swimming). She attended Vassar yet misunderstands basic sporting terminology—thinking a "divot" relates to revolutions, "foursomes" are dental tools, and "chukker" is a motorboat. The satire targets both female incompetence at genteel pastimes and the pretense surrounding country-club culture itself. The final caption shows two working-class men discussing governmental secrecy, suggesting irony about what "respectable" society doesn't understand either.
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I Know a Girl Se thinks polo is a sort of a stick you jump around on, that tennis is the way you feel when you're very excited and that golf is to swallow a lot at once, but she told me she's just beside herself with joy at a country club. She is undoubtedly the only person who would be beside her with joy at a country club, When I asked her what she went around in she told me that in the warm weather she went around in as little as possible and those who did not like it didn’t have to look at her. It is her unique idea that a divot is a point about which something re- volves, that foursomes are the instru- ments dentists use when extracting tecth and that lob in a tennis game indicates no score. I asked her if they had a swimming tank at the country club she a member of and she replied that sev- eral of the members were awful tanks, but she didn’t know if they could swim or not, She thinks a chukker is an outboard motorboat and that mallets is what you should bear towards none. As I still hadn't found out what she did the course in, I asked her and she told me she did the classic arts course at Vassar in eight years. She must have been a good deal quicker in those days than she is now to have gotten through that quickly. —Carrott Carrott JUDGE Free wheeling is here! WW “Bill, the Government does a lot of things that we don’t know nuthin’ about.” 9 comicbooks.com