Judge, 1924-08-30 · page 32 of 36
Judge — August 30, 1924 — page 32: what you’re looking at
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This page combines **advertising** (a coupon service for car-buying advice) with **two separate satirical pieces**. ## The Car Advertisement Judge's Motor Department offers free expert advice to readers considering automobile purchases, positioning itself as an unbiased consultant against hasty buying decisions. ## The Cartoon The sketch depicts a "Disgusted Gent" who bought a hair-restorer product, expecting miraculous results. The assistant's sarcastic response—"But whatever made you rub it on your chin?"—mocks both the product's false advertising and the customer's apparent foolishness in misapplying it. This satirizes patent medicine and consumer gullibility, a common Judge theme. ## "Is This Country Going to the Dogs?" This article discusses heredity versus environment in determining family character. The author debates Mr. Wiggam's theories about strain/genetics, arguing that even families with poor histories might unexpectedly produce successful children (athletes, politicians, actors). It's a humorous commentary on American optimism and social mobility during the early 20th century.
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Do You Owe Yourself a New Car? If You Do, Don’t Buy Hastily There is a make and model best suited to your requirements and your pocket-book — and there is the Motor Department of JUDGE to help you find that car. The services of the Motor Department are absolutely free to all readers-of Jupce. Use the coupon below to obtain the unbiased advice of its automo- tive experts. Please fill out the coupon completely so that we may know your requirements in detail. COUPON Motor Department JupcE 627 West 43d St., New York City 1 am considering the purchase of a car to cost about $......and am especially interested in one of the. eee eee eee (make) aie . . (type) My requirements for a car are as follows: Capacity... 00.0... cee eee eee Type of body............. Driven and cared } F . self for by chauffeur Kind of roads over which car WOULA De Used ereasscscecaracerees. wexcwvensca ..a used car of make, which | would like to turn inas partial payment. The following cars of approxi- mately thé type in which | am interested are handled by dealers in my territory: I have Please advise me as to the car best suited to my requirements. | morals, educatic | do very little, if famous. result. rub it on your chin? Is This Country Going to the Dogs? (Continued from page 18) Mr. Wiggam makes a lot of the Weis- n notion or discovery that strain or is everything, and he says that and religion can thing, to help the human race, You have got to be good folks or you never will be. What hap- pens to you makes little of no difference | on your children. If you go to Chautauqua or take a trip to Europe, your children will be no better off for it. T have my own little unscientific notion about this which varies a little from Mr. Wiggam’s. (Perhaps he can ‘correct me at Grand Central when we get together.) It is that it might be quite possible for a lot of good qualities to be packed into a family and for that family to have been consistently maladjusted for a good many generations and therefore apparently no on Disgusted Gent—I purchased, a short time ago, a bottle of your air-restorer—and I thought I would let you see the wonderful Assistant (under notice)—Dear me, sir! —— ARI But what made you —Passing Show (London) good, and for some outside cireumstance finally to take the lid off of the family and set it loose at last. There may have been a lot of families released in this manner by, say, the St. Louis World's Fair. In short, even if your family seems to be a lot of bums and seems to li it, how are you going to know it i you have all tried to be of pastry cooks or fer Even if your immediate ancestors seem no good, is there not a your family 1 i ight chance that ly one of the id that somehow your grandparents got off the track? It does look as if even the most common person had a right to tinker along on this theory and try things and try a few chil- dren to see if somehow the family might not eventually break out into good ball players or Senators or movie actors or something. comicbooks.com