Judge, 1913-01-18 · page 18 of 24
Judge — January 18, 1913 — page 18: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
**The Main Cartoon: "Protect Yourself From Assault"** This is an advertisement disguised as public service, promoting a self-defense manual through jiu jitsu instruction. The caricatured military figure (likely representing authority/expertise) hawks a $5 book claiming to teach fighting techniques without physical training—purely through reading. The satire targets both the gullible public and dubious mail-order schemes common to the era. The exaggerated promises ("instantly and completely prevent assault") mock the pseudoscientific marketing language of early 1900s self-help industries. **"Colonel Beanfugle on Scientific Management"** This humorous dialogue satirizes the "scientific management" craze (Frederick Taylor's efficiency movement) sweeping American business. Colonel Beanfugle lectures his wife about applying industrial optimization to housework, using bricklaying as an example—saving one motion per brick yields marginal gains. The joke: applying rigid industrial methodology to domestic life produces absurdly trivial results, mocking how enthusiastically Americans adopted corporate efficiency principles for every aspect of life.
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= ex) Protect Yourself This Adapted Jiu Jitsu Knowledge Is Invaluable. have letters from Chiefs of Police, Judges, Detectives and business men all over the country, telling how this system of self-defense in: stantly and completely pre sassault. It prevents a revolver being drawn, shows how to escape being shot, stabbed or str and quickly learn hy ke any opponent heloless without strength, akill, pons. You get aco nowledge of the body's weak spots from graphic descriptions, enabling you to protect yourrelf no matter how suddenly you are attacked. Absolutely no exercise or work is sequired. ‘It is information—not physical tra'ning. There is no tea-hing—no study. We simply tell you wiat to do and you know how todoit. You can then protect ) ourself against fistic as-ault or any other assaurt. ‘The book of over 100 pages, profusely illustrated, will be sent to anyone for $5.00—one-tenth the cost of the same course personally instructed. Three trial holds, showing the instant effectiveness of th m, $1 ‘This offer is made for a rhort time only. Money returned if you do not agree that tecting information in the took is worth far more than the price. The rrice of the will be credited upon the price of the book. N. 1 Produce Bank, Chicago, refer Self Preservation League, : 1378 Kesner Bld, Extraordinary Picture Bargains—While They Last HE LESLIE-JUDGE COMPANY has a number of original drawings in black and white and in colors. ‘These pictures have been used for illustrations in JUDGE, and are the work of some of the best known artists. Some of the drawings are comic, some social, some political, but all are clever. They cost us from $10 to $40 each, and you could not buy them from an artist for less. They range in size from about one foot square to two feet or more. Next to an expensive oil painting, an expensive drawing is most suitable for the decoration of your home, your office, your library, or your den. ‘These drawings, having served their purposes as illustrations for JUDGE, are offered as originals at only a small per cent of what we paid the artists for them. You can get these original drawings by popular artists from $1 upwards. Bear in mind that these are originals, The buyer has the only one ever made, There are no duplicates, and never will be, ON SALE AND EXHIBITION AT HERALD SQUARE aan stautttessinstreer NEW YORK Colonel Beanfugle on Scientific Management By ARTHUR CHAPMAN cWHat you need to practice in housework,’ said Colonel Bean fugle to his wife, ‘‘is scientific management.”” “I'm always willing to be enlightened, though I’ve never found that you are threatening to crowd Liberty out of her torch job,"’ re. turned Mrs. Beanfugle. ‘‘Elucidate, please.”” “Didn't you read all those articles in the magazines a while ago about the great revolution in business accomplished by scientific man agement? For instance, one of the scientific managers made a study of bricklaying, and then he went out and told a bunch of bricklayer how to do their work right. He showed them how to save one motion of the hand in turning the brick over to receive the mortar. Then he made them move the mortar bed nearer the bricks. After that, be showed them how to hold the trowel so it would carry an ounce more mortar. When the scientific manager had finished, the bricklayer who had been laying four hundred and fifty-eight brick in a given time found he could lay four hundred and fifty-nine brick. The saving of one brick per bricklayer, in all the building industries each hour, would amount to 3,456,789,234 brick a year, according to official esti- mates. All that saving in the one item of bricklaying shows what scientific management can accomplish, “What are you going to improve in my method of work?" inquired Mrs. Beanfugle icily. “Well, my dear,’’ stammered Cglonel Beanfugle weakly, ‘‘I think, for one thing, you might bring your dishpan about three inches nearer the sink when washing dishes, I made careful measurement the other day, and I find that at least three inches can be saved. That would help a whole lot in transferring the dishes to the pan. It would prob ably save a tenth of a second an evening, and if you figure out a tenth of a second being saved in twenty million homes in this broad and beautiful land’’—— “Come down to essentials!’’ snapped Mrs. Beanfugle. ‘* What else is there that can be scientifically improved in my kitchen wor “‘Well—er—really, my dear, there’s the way you mop the floor, Now, if you had a trifle more cloth in your mop, that would makes difference of half an inch, say, in the mopping surface thereof. Now, the saving of half an inch every time a mop is swept across one of the ten million kitchen floors in this land of glorious opportunities’'— “Never mind the fancy work. This is no stump speech, but a talk on scientific conservation. Now, show me something else to conserve.” “Well,” hesitated the colonel, mopping his forehead desperately, “er—er—in the matter of passing things at the table. Suppose yoo passed them to me all at once, instead of separately. Say I asked for the butter three times, the sugar four times, the salt twice, and the coffee twice, in the course of a meal. That is bound to create a lot of waste effort. If those things were passed to me all at once’’—— “Pass them to you!’’ shrieked Mrs. Beanfagle. ‘*Why, next time I'll throw them all at your head, you insulting old, old—theorist, you! And you needn’t try to make your getaway out of the back door, either, but just put on this kitchen apron and give me a scientific demonstration of your scientific conservation in dish washing, after which you can add a little more cloth to the mop and show me just how you would go over the kitchen linoleum with the fewest possible swipes. Scientific management, indeed! I'll come down to your office to-morrow and show you a few things about managing that old rat hole that you never dreamed of !"” Best Yet. 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