Judge — November 15, 1924 — page 11: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Explanation of Cartoon This is a futuristic satire imagining life "IN THE YEAR 2000" with "Twelve Junes a year"—suggesting catastrophically increased heat or weather disruption. The cartoon depicts a dystopian industrial landscape where people are being blown away by powerful wind gusts from various "power companies": the **Blizzard Vacuum Absorber No. 21**, **Spring Breezes Power Co.**, **All Night Sunlight & April Showers Power Co.**, and **Synthetic Weather Shaper**. These fictional companies appear to be mechanically controlling or weaponizing weather as an energy source. The masses of people being scattered across the ground suggest this new technology causes chaos and suffering. The satire mocks corporate exploitation of natural resources and emerging industrial power generation, imagining a future where companies literally monetize and manipulate weather itself, leaving ordinary citizens as collateral damage.