Judge, 1924-04-19 · page 29 of 36
Judge — April 19, 1924 — page 29: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page mixes political commentary with period advertising. The main satirical text discusses Emma Goldman, the anarchist activist deported to Soviet Russia by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer. The joke: Goldman, a radical revolutionary, is disappointed that Soviet Russia isn't radical *enough*—it's become a Marxian state rather than true anarchism. Judge compares her predicament to a Yiddish vaudeville sketch where nothing satisfies the protagonist. The accompanying poem "In Schooldays Revised" nostalgically contrasts old rural America (one-room schoolhouses, modest schoolgirls) with modern commercialism (filling stations, "Lipstick Jane"), satirizing how gasoline and consumer culture have replaced traditional institutions. The page also features period advertisements for General Electric washing machines and Silver-S batteries, typical of 1920s publications. The ads appeal to middle-class aspirations for labor-saving devices. **Key context:** This reflects post-WWI American anxiety about radicalism, rapid modernization, and changing social values.
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and the pictures have shown us that he wore a in these books, around the globe, lerby hat all the way, from Jerusalem to the summit of Popocatapetl ‘This, ement probably stands as a record for all time. Poor old) Russia! Now it’ doesn't suit’) Emma Goldman, That noble sedition hound, A. Mitchell Palmer, de- | ported her as a present to the Soviet | Republic, but now she is back in Berlin aid has written “My Disillusionment in KR (Doubleday Page). Lots of people don’t like present day Russia because it is too radical. Emma doesn't like it’ because it isn’t radical enough. Emma isan anarchist. Revolution means revolution to her, not) Marxian state socialism. She hates Marxian socialism as bitterly as Otto H. Kahn does. Her book strangely reminds us of poor little Joe Weber, in one of the old Weber and Field skits. Russia seems to be in the same predicament Joe was. “Vat's the matter mit you, Meyer?” he inquired, with that plaintive pathos of his. “Ven riatecies" ss TF father did the washing "The only thing left for Russia to do is| . ! tw try pleasing herself for a while. If} just once} she can’t please Emma Goldman, and | can’t suit’ Charles E. Hughes, there | doesn't seem to be much left but to jump | If every father did the family in the Volga. | washing next Monday there grelnimd, “iat ish. ub, Haminyy es would be an electric washing machine in every home be- fore next Saturday night. tote “Ix Scnootpays” Revisep G7 sits the schoothouse by: the road, For fathers are used to figur- SD But not a beggar sunning: | You will find this ; 2 - 6 No sumac round ts portals walks, | esegramof the ing costs. They'd say: “The No blackberry vines are running. | Company on many electricity for a week’s wash- devices that takethe ing costs less than a cake drudgery out of Bo Hien erp now owns the lot housework. Lack atit of soap. Human time and nd runs a filling station closely and remember : To satisfy the panting cars, | the letters G-E. They Strength are too Precious for That call for liquidation. | parecer pad ed work which a machine can friend. do so cheaply and well. The ks that bore upon their hides the ia ‘kknife! 's ¢ patved my al No schoolgirl trim with modest limb Now carts her dinner bucket, ; oe But Lipstick Jane that drives through | rain From Portland to Pawtucket. They all say Frexinmios | GLOVER’S No pedagogue now waves his birch . Guarantee does the Business Or gives a sum in fractions, SILVER-S For Hiram Stubbs now figures hard BATTERY From Rubes to make subtractions. with genuine AHLBI |EVERLEAK solid rubber case | Half price on this non- torace So fare thee well, schoolhouse of yore, Now bright with Red Crown's story, Tell forth thy tale of gasoline’s Evaporating glory! W.CLAY GLOVER CO.,Inc. 4.3 127-20 West 24th Street New York City Gerorce F. Pau. comicbooks.com