Judge, 1924-05-03 · page 26 of 36
Judge — May 3, 1924 — page 26: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains two sections: advertisements for engraved art prints and a satirical comic strip. **The Art Prints** are marketing Judge magazine's reproductions of sentimental domestic scenes ("The Gift of Gifts," "Land Ho!") priced at fifty cents each. **The Main Satire: "Eventually—Why Not Now?"** critiques media consolidation. The premise: if all newspapers merged into one, then all magazines would be absorbed into it, then all books would require magazine (and thus newspaper) approval before publication. The satire mocks this monopoly's supposed "efficiency"—millions lose jobs, but everyone celebrates unanimity: "no longer a confusion of voices." The final panel shows a couple where the woman complains about waiting for her mother; the man's joke about timing ("Hours...Ours?") contrasts the strip's dystopian vision with mundane reality. **The target**: likely Frank Munsey's 1911 consolidation of American newspapers and magazines, which Judge satirizes as dangerous groupthink disguised as progress. The satire warns that media monopoly eliminates independent thought.
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Engraver’s Original Proofs “The Gift of Gifts” Drawn by Angus MacDonalt ANOTHER very human home ** study by one of JUDGE'S most popular artists. “lhe advance orders for this particular subject: indicate that the supply of five hundred proofs will soon be sold. | The small illustration above gives only an idea of the picture itself {he actual drawing is reproduced from the engraver's original plates on Heavy Art Mat, 15's x Illy inches in size. All the details of the original drawing ure preserved in all their fineness. A handsome and fitting decoration for any room in the home. Price Fifty Cents 8: “Land Ho! Draur by Angus MacDonalt : HIS) sentimental subject greeted with universal acclaim by those about to be married, by those | already married and by those who ever hope to be married was The artist has given this age-old | longing exceptional and unique ex- pression in the drawing shown in miniature above. Our reprint is from the engraver’s | { original plates on Heavy Art Mat, | 15!) x 11!4 inche Price Fifty Cents All. proofs will be carefully packed and mailed postpaid immediately on receipt of your order and remittance addressed to Judge Art Print Department 627 West 43d Street New York City The bedtime story. Eventruatty~ Wuy Nor Now? “Tr ALL the newspapers were one news- paper,” sighed the Merging Magi “what a great newspaper that would be! In the interests of efficiency, thet the paper. This paper came in time to absorb all the magazines. But by this time no book could appear which had not received the sanction of magazine publication. Hence all the books had first to apy in all the magazines which had been absorbed into all the newspapers which had become one gi newspaper. Though millions of people were thrown newspapers were made one news- Pm vow wy She (impatiently) —We've been waiting a good many minutes for that mother of mine. He—Hours, I should say. She— Ours? out of work by this change, every one seemed satistied. The voi in the app All the letters printed in the columns of + of the press was unanimous val of its own unanimity, the one great newspaper enthusiastically aggre ‘The Day of Days had arrived. Babel had been unbabeled. 1 in their praise of its oneness, ‘There was no longer a confusion. of voices, a contention of thoughts, nor an unrhythmie beating of hearts. ‘The hearts of the people beat as one heart; the thoughts of the people became as one thought; the voices of the people became as one voic Vor Munsey. Oh, George, this is so sudden! comicbooks.com