Judge, 1909-05-22 · page 2 of 16
Judge — May 22, 1909 — page 2: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several distinct editorial pieces criticizing government spending and proposed legislation: **"Pen-Points"** section presents brief satirical commentary on topics like preserving American forests and extending the professorial exchange system to football coaches. **"Husbands Take Warning"** attacks a proposed law allowing women to overdraw bank accounts up to $5,000 without spousal consent or face imprisonment. The editorial argues this threatens domestic stability and male authority, claiming it would enable wives to escape accountability. **"The Mission in Africa"** praises hunting expeditions as superior to bloody military campaigns. The largest cartoon shows a man at a doorway with the caption **"This Reckless Expenditure of the People's Money Must Stop,"** likely satirizing government waste. The magazine's tone reflects early 20th-century conservative concerns about women's independence, government fiscal policy, and American imperialism.
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Hrunswick Building, 225 Fifth Aves New York. Cable Address, “Judgark." Tel, 6632 Madison Square ~ JOHN A. SLEICHER, President. PF. W. Schneider, Seer Anibur ‘Terry, Treasurer. Wastemn Apvertrina Urrice— 11367 Marquette Tuilding. Chicago, James M, Lee, Managing Editor. Grant E. Hamiitoa, Art Editor, AHKD WEEKLY AT 10 CHNTH A CU Avance by draft on New York, or by express of postal order, mot by lacal checks York Cty. nadian Provinces The contents of FUDGE are crotected by cooyright in both the United States a's Great add Shue Britain. Vewws Company, B CONTRIBUTORS must inciose 4 stamped and self-addressed endelope with all manuscripts, Muréach's News Aechange, Mains, — othefivise return of the latier when fours unawalabie Cannot be guaranteed. 1 JUDGE cannot be foand at any cewe-stend, be pebllabere will be ender obligations if that fact be promptly reported on postal-card or by letter. BACK NUMUEKS Present year, 10 cents pet copy: 1” centsy ete F ADDRESS Subscribers ily elapye betore the change caa be ing 2 change of 4 betore tbe heat copy of J Happet, Prom two to three weeks most PEN-POINTS. Junce desires to express his abhorrence of those libel-loving per- ly Ss men have to hire reckless chauffeurs in order to keep sons who r that the taxidermist in charge will stuff the spe 2 out of the way of other motorists on ** joy rides. mens designed to be sent to the Smithsonian Institution with cop! % * of the presidential messages for 1907-08, Th merely one more ly simply dropping a few years, many a woman — of those picayune little pin-pricks from a pernicious press prepared er the past President with try pabulum of painful pif™ ds in carrying her age well, to pes Some pol \d to be over-anxious about HUSBANDS TAKE WARNING. the preservation of American forests, because they HE PROPOSED measure making the overdrawing of one’s want a safe place when they have “to take to the tall T account at the bank a felony punishable by a fine of $5,000, or imprisonment for five or both, is enough to make us ees wish that women could vote, for June: is sure that an intelligent Since the custom of exchanging professors has womanhood would never permit such a law to so on the statut proved so be I to the colleges who have tried the experiment, — hooks, Overdrafts are not by any manner of means an exclusively why should not the system be extended to include football couch feminine diversion, but they are sufficiently frequent among the ete.? members of the fair sex to warrant one in referring to them asa feminine habit; and every man in this land whose wife is possessed of acheek-book, with a balance large or small, will sooner or later, if this law is enacted and enforced, find himself confronted with the alternative of ransoming the partner of his joys from the clutches THE MISSION IN AFRICA A WORTHY ONE. of Justice at ruinous expense, or of suffering the disadvantages of T WAS with much pleasure that June learned the other day that grass-bachelorhood for a period of years, ‘The preposterous there ix to be no unnecessary bloodshed in that famous African nature of the proposed statute will mply demonstrated by a campa Your true sportsman is not really a lover of ruthless moment's consideration of the real character of the thousands of killing, and while the shooting of wild animals with cameras is not pious and inno 1 in this country who, by i thrilling, it has most excellent points, Jupce has learned, upon good be transformed in the twinkling of an nto felons, through mere authority, that one interesting feature of the shooting will be on be- ivertence, carelessness in additions, thought subtrac- half of the reformed-spelling movement. ‘The distinguished hunts- tions, forgetfulness of chance invasions--in short, any one of a mil- man will endeavor neither to kill nor to maim the animals he lion and a half wholly in iting the sum total of rs, but if he meets a gnu, for instance, he will reform the — their offense which the law of man, and not of morality, makes creature from an crime. Of cours etymological point men who have of view by shoot- grown tired of the ing off his unnee- matrimonial yoke essary . When he ¢ era a thi he will pink him on the superflu- ous ‘“*h,’? whilea chance leopard, by awell-direeted load of buckshot, will have his re dundant ‘ 0" cut out of his midst. It is by forming words out of these eliminated letters that the huntsman will trebly that seemingly large stipend that lies on the other side of his nascent paragraphs, so eagerly awaited by the American public. Whi this subject timber." The assertion made by some college prc message could be sent to Mars for $10,000,000, ‘The p of Junge is that all such n should be sent C. 0. D. as bi nt wom ent acts encoun’ count- eros but married manin th nd who fied with things as they are in his home, and who does not wish to see hiswife, moth- er, or mothe law in jail, should rise up and protest against the enact- mentofsuchastat- be amended to ex- empt women from arn ute, unless sai comicbooks.com