Judge, 1919-08-30 · page 7 of 36
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# "The Latest Strike" — Judge Magazine Satire This cartoon satirizes Soviet-style labor organizing among schoolchildren. The title references the communist "Soviets" (workers' councils) that existed in Russia, particularly prominent during the 1917-1920s period. The joke: the "President of the Students' and Junior Citizens' Soviet" is formally demanding that schools provide "Adding and Calculating Machines" during arithmetic lessons—a mock-serious labor strike demand by children. The satire targets two things: (1) the perceived absurdity of Soviet communism and its organizational methods, and (2) growing concerns about radical ideology influencing American youth. By depicting children as mini-communists making formal demands, Judge mocks both communism as inherently childish and fears about communist infiltration of American institutions. The accompanying stories appear to be unrelated comic fiction filler typical of Judge's format.
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The Latest STRIKE The President of the Students’ and Junior Citizens’ Soviet makes formal demand to be furnished » ‘ch Adding and Calculating Machines during Arithmetictesson by her mixed groans one might have suspected her to be a giraffe with a stiff neck. But she was not. She was only a young girl growing bilious. And at last, answering her cries for help, the room rose on one corner and bowed politely, then looped the loop and did a tailspin. Angela knew no more: indeed, not so much. : * * * . . . . \ spoonful of olive oil, forced between her lips, re- vived her; and she was released by a red-headed China- man. Him she might have kissed, perhaps, for Angela's love was usually all-embrac- ing. But it was too late; her kisses had staled. The man with the green mustache had disappeared. At first. she thought he had taken her heart with him, and felt a iously inside her corset. No, it was not gone, but it was yoing. Three weeks are supposed by some to have clapsed. Entering a Hall of Records, one day, something—it may have been the Recorder—told her to ask for the new Cat- terwaulski records, so exten- Drawn by JK. Wav ams “ My Daddy says we were put here to do good to others.” “ Did you ask him what the others were put here for?” 7 sively advertised, of late, 1. all the best fly-papers. She heard, and, understanding, at last, thereby estab- lished a new record of her own for intelligence. Before her ears were reproduced the convulsive arpeggios of her late lamented anguish. Yea, verily; in the distra ted depths of Angela's lovesickness, the Grafolion Company had discovered a new coloratura contralto. You can get her complete conniption on a 12-inch disc ‘or $3.50. (Next week Angie is at her awfullest in ‘The Adventure of she Dumb Deceiver."") How it Was Visiter—Do the revenue officers, bother you much? Moonshiner--Yes; especially since the country weat dry; but I've just hac to put my foot down and tell them that I couldn’t spare them a drop; I’m just about able to take care of my regular cus- tomers. By Airship Mrs. Hoyle over in the M Mrs. Doyle old-fash- ioned people; my sacestors came over in the R4-11-44 y ancestors came wer hat