Captain Billy's Whiz Bang #59 — page 52: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page contains three separate humorous anecdotes rather than cartoons: 1. **"Evading Volstead's Vacuum"**: A joke about Prohibition enforcement. A drunk Black man named Ira appears in court; when asked how he got drunk drinking "nuttin'," he claims someone choked him and he accidentally swallowed cidah (cider). The humor targets both Prohibition's ineffectiveness and racial stereotypes in dialect humor. 2. **A brief animal joke** about a rooster and hen. 3. **"Oh, Youth Where Is Thy Sting!"**: Commentary on a Pittsburgh schoolgirls' dance where hundreds of youths gathered outside. A principal's dress code notice ("no dresses above the knee") apparently sparked the commotion—suggesting the restriction itself caused the scandal rather than preventing one. The page reflects 1920s-era concerns about Prohibition enforcement, youth morality, and dress codes.