Judge — December 14, 1912 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page, December 14, 1912 The left page features "Have You Such a Friend?"—an advertising column (No. 46 in a weekly series) about advertising work. It describes an anecdote where an advertising agent accepts a large check for designs, then pockets it and vanishes without delivering the work. The piece satirizes the problem that manufacturing a product is only "one-fifth of the problem" while sales/advertising comprises "the other four-fifths"—implying advertising professionals often exploit this imbalance through dishonesty. The right page is primarily the magazine's masthead and table of contents, with a holiday advertisement encouraging readers to "Shop Early" for Christmas gifts. The satire targets unscrupulous advertising practices and the vulnerability of clients to fraud in the emerging advertising industry.