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This page from Judge contains satirical commentary on contemporary early 1920s American life and politics by Arthur H. Folwell, with illustrations by W.E. Hill. **Key Satirical Items:** The column mocks various targets: Man's complaint about living costs while living longer than when life was cheap; a ranchman refusing an English inheritance (contrary to movie narratives); Kansas jail inmates pooling "tobacco money" for a radio; police chiefs advocating public spanking coinciding with the appearance of flappers in knickers (suggesting hypocrisy about morality). **Political References:** The piece criticizes Prohibition through mentions of bootleggers and the Volstead Act. It references President Harding receiving a framed Magna Charta, drawing a parallel between King John being forced to sign it and Harding being pressured to sign the McCumber-Fordney tariff bill by "tariff barons." **The Cartoons:** Two sketched portraits appear—apparently unnamed individuals illustrating specific anecdotes within the text. The satire employs typical Judge-style social commentary: mocking contemporary contradictions, political hypocrisy, and social changes (especially regarding Prohibition and changing sexual mores).

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As We Were Saying by Arthur H. Folwell Nature Studies by W. FE. Hill M his wail about the high cost of living, he persists in living longer than he did) when living was cheap, When the purchasing power of the dollar was large he shufled off often at fifty and ht himself old. Now, when ising power is small, he thinks of sticking around until the news- AN is a contrary cuss. Despite papers say he's a hundred, ae Now we understand why served in coffee cups. ae hooch The King of England killed 99& grouse in Jess than four days during his recent visit to Scotland. What a war record the King might have m if the Ger- mans had only been grouse, ae RANCHMAN of Sacramento, in- rs heriting an English title and es- tate, refuses to accept them and will stay right where he is, on the ranch. This, the gentleman should realize, contrary to the best movie scenarios. He should think well and ponder long before making so rash a decision. tae Well, with what the Republican party has saved him by reduci sumer will be able to me in his coal bill) this wint xes, the con- the increase This, as The occupants of a Kansas jail lumped their “tobacco money” for the purchase of a radio re- ceiving set. Will not some kindly broadcaster introduce a series of bed-time tales for safe- crackers and second-story men? is entirely * Artemus Ward used to say, is “writ sar- castic.” set “Politics makes strange but not half as strange with the Anti-saloon I Bootleggers both rooting Volstead Act. bedfellows,” Prohibition— ague and the hard for the a activity, Jersey NCE a. sizzle of cinema Fort Lee and environs on th shore were shoved in’ the discard by Hollywood, The staging of a murder at Edge’ may have been Jersey's way of coming back on the movie map. Hollywood has a big lead, however. Rata Several chiefs of police, in’ widely separated localities, have expressed them- selves in favor of public spanking Is ita coincidence that such opinions simultaneous with the appearance flappers in knickers? Burbank isd In that event, the wizard’s place is in Washington, where the roster of Congress would afford him rich mate: tte FRENCHMAN who LY to the Bourgeosie” his forehead during the w the sentiment removed by a surgical oper- ation. Tow would it do if successful can- didates for high Federal © were required to tattoo campaign pled their forehed Ve solemnly pl reduce had “Death tooed aeross selves to taxes,” for example commuter’s » curtailed be- of the shopmen’s Next, they were still) further to room for the coal If the commuter he will call up the and say he is sick is Wise offic Oysters may have joined the American Fed- eration of Labor. noying flaw in our “life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.” At the risk of being vulgar, we offer the suggestion every customs be equipped hereafter with a stomach pump and full authority to use it. That part of the Volstead Act which forbids tation into United territory must and. shall be respected. “They are old-fashioned now, those tales of “God's great outdoor —M te of K s In their place have come tales of Satan's great indoors. tae pk SIDENT HARDING has re- ceived a beautifully framed copy of the Magna Charta. A timely gift full of significance. As the British b: f I the reluctant King John to sign the Magna ( . so the tariff barons hope to bully the reluctant: King Warren into signing the McCumber-Fordney Bill. res whieh is invisibh Lamentably true: we noted two of them on one city block the other evening tot ssion, for which the Another prof rd an opening, is that movies seem to i of continuity writer for murders. tat HE duck-billed one in’ America, neither fish, flesh nor fowl, but tion of all three, it) had no among the creatures of It was too much of a fish to please the birds and the quadrupeds; too much of a bird to satisfy the quadrupeds andthe fish: too much of a quadruped to win the esteem of the fish and the birds. The nearest: surviving approach to the coy and uncertain. platypus is the United States Railway Labor I intimates the zoo. “Flappers are doing missionary work by driving young men into the mini Rader, evangelist. dance called the Missionary Trot? stry,” says the Rev. Paul Why not a new and _ intimate