Judge, 1924-11-15 · page 3 of 36
Judge — November 15, 1924 — page 3: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Analysis This Judge magazine page presents satirical "questions the Judge wants to know"—a recurring feature mocking current events and public figures through posed rhetorical questions. The main illustration depicts a woman carrying a child, fleeing what appears to be a chaotic scene with vehicles and wreckage, captioned with dialogue about someone's age depending "who I was saying it to." The surrounding text raises topical questions including references to: - The "Ship of State" (government) - Irish immigration ("WHY Ireland produces so many tenors") - Infrastructure maintenance timing ("steam boilers...repaired in winter") - Traffic safety standards and speed limits Without specific dates visible, the exact events referenced are unclear, but the page typifies Judge's satirical approach: using absurdist questions to critique government inefficiency, social conditions, and public policy inconsistencies of the era.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
“*LIFE LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS”? JUDGE WANTS IF the “Ship of State” will ever again be a schooner. hd WHY steam boilers are always repaired in the winter and State highways in the midst of the touring season. IN ORDER to be consistent with the income tax publicity and the dwindling privacy, when will the Statue of Liberty start posing in the nude? TO. KNOW— WHY Treland produces so many tenors. PAH HOW some of those safety zone traffic standards got so bent—and what those eighteen miles an hour speed signs mean. “How old would you say she was?” “Just depends who I was saying it to.” comicbooks.com