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# "As We Were Saying" - Judge Magazine Satire This page collects brief satirical commentary on contemporary issues, circa early 1920s (Prohibition era). The sketches by W.E. Hill and text by Arthur H. Folwell target: **Prohibition enforcement**: Jokes mock agents' ineffectiveness at stopping liquor—family vaults and stained-glass church windows are suggested hiding spots they overlook. **Tariffs & economics**: References a proposed 137% duty, mocking the Senate's ease in deceiving consumers economically. **Celebrity culture**: Isadora Duncan's avant-garde eye-movement dance is ridiculed; aging performer De Wolf Hopper's repeated divorces are joked about. **International politics**: "No More War" European peace movements are dismissed as ineffectual without substance beyond uniforms and rhetoric. **British taxation**: Torture implements lose their power under heavy English tax rates—a dark joke about financial burden. The tone is cynical, worldly commentary on contemporary absurdities—typical Judge magazine fare mocking politicians, celebrities, and social hypocrisy.
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As We Were Saying The wets will have their innings at Washington when there is not a dry aye in the House I: WOULD have been more compli mentary if the Flathead Indians had changed the name of their tril asking the President to become an On the other hand, hefore hone Mayo ry member. Hylan— An airplane We ARE glad to see that the loco- motive which used to make this run “at sixty miles an hour” has been re- tired to the roundhouse for a well-earned rest. It will p ly be put on an easy suburban run, from the Earth to the Moon, when it comes back to work, rd Some home-brew we hear of has about as much domestic status as the “strictly pies in the baker's window. wae home-made” new taxes with which the ned is one on his age must be s nothing sure Among the Englishman is burd a A familiar altered to read: ‘There but death and other taxes. Isadora Duncan has devised a new dance, the movements of which are executed only by the eyes and the eyebrows. She should sign a partner who can wiggle his ears, and make it a twosome Arthur HH. Folwell Nature Studies by W. E. Hill HEARS 4 was stopped five times in one after- noon by prohibition agents. Come to think of it, family vaults would make admirable hiding places for liquor, and in not raiding them prohibition agents have ly indifferent to duty. Copper doors are’ stubborn things, of course, but stained glass windows should vield readily to the raider’s ax. ey on its way toa cemetery, heen s\ If ay geney would create a sensation of proportions, it) will secure a group picture of all the champion with their clothes on, ree vast women swimmers What is needed in a variable climate like ours is a combination Eskimo Pie and Hot Dog, on sale at all vacation resorts. ree War have blossomed in ts baronets, Over Nore, they blossom into benefi- ciaries of tariff favors at the hands of Cong ery A Kansas sheriff pulled a plug from the trunk of a tree and found inside an cight- gallon jug of liquor. Better keep an eye on the maple-sugar industry next spring. ere sual for I kin on is not unu: two or three part fact that hen a Yet they talk ment problem in ( ayed a x the about the at Britain. unemploy- al With a proposed duty as high as 137 per cent., nothing seems casier to the Senate than to pull wool over the eyes of the American consumer. ery “N° MORE WAR” demonstrations 4% are being inaugurated in numerous “no more war” parts of Europe. movement. will effective when folks other means of showing patriotism and love of country than by putting on a uniform and shooting some- body. become devise at “The Storm,” the sensational forest-fire phi Why not carry enterprise a step fur- ther and have a bull-voiced man in the wings to bellow, “Fire!” Audiences must be thrilled at any cost. tas ANCIENT implements of torture, 4% some of them once used in the Tower of London, were sold for a song in England recently. With the present English tax rate, the rack, the thumb- screw and the iron maiden have lost their power to terrify. 10 vat test of law and order is not ul strike. It is the injunction, Chic: man, Which restrains his wife’s mother from interfering with his “connubial felicity.” Ultimately, the Supreme Court of the United States will have to pass on it. THE Vines granted ttt De Wolf Hopper will ed sixty-four, contest. “vigorously” his fourth—-or is it his fifth?—wife’s suit for divorcee. [t's pretty nearly time he beeame a finak att The air-police are out after the low fliers. And, as usual, the land-police arc out after the high-fliers. So there you are. Since the war, Turkish women have been dressing for the street in modern style. Some of their discarded trousers are being worn over here, considerably taken in According to the ch person in the All, of course, 7 shy. Treasury D United State except Allan me has i Ryan, who is * Oxford is sending to America a de- hating team which will make a tour of Eastern universities. What is the alibi in the case of a lost debate? The differ- ence in climate, same as in tennis? ttt I" TOOK Major Andrew S$. Rowan, . AL, a mere r of days to “carry a message to Garcia.” It’ took the War Department twenty four years to award him a Distinguished Service Cross. Is the shade of Elbert Hubbard within hearing distance? sas ™ for living more 000 phonograph records of »nt_ personages—has been col- 4 in Berlin. We trust it has the niser’s, “O God, I did not want this war!” That would be worth keeping for posterity. voices comicbooks.com