Judge, 1925-12-05 · page 12 of 36
Judge — December 5, 1925 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Explanation for Modern Readers This Judge magazine page contains two satirical pieces: **"Think Twice About Florida"** (Don Herold): A commentary on the Florida real estate boom of the 1920s. Herold warns against rushing to invest a hypothetical half-million dollars in Florida property. He observes that wealthy people who relocate there typically spend lavishly on mansions, yachts, and luxury goods, then find their remaining $200,000 inadequate to maintain these expenses—creating financial trouble despite initial wealth. The satire targets get-rich-quick mentality and poor financial planning among the newly wealthy. **"The New Baby (A Presidential Possibility)"** (R.C. O'Brien): A humorous piece about an uncommunicative newborn whose parents optimistically believe he'll become President someday, despite having no evidence of his abilities. The satire likely mocks American optimism about presidential potential and parental bias. The cartoon at top depicts someone being sent to Florida with a "shoe horn"—suggesting difficulty fitting oneself into the Florida lifestyle or entering its competitive real estate market.
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“Where are you going?” “Better take your shoe horn.” THINK TWICE ABOUT FLORIDA | by Don Herold HERE is one question I would like to ask you before you rush off rashly to Florida—what would you do with a half million dollars if you had it? In thinking about a half million dollars, most of us get the cart before the horse. First of all we should write down specifically and exactly what we would do with that much money, and then, if the idea still looks good to us, there will be plenty of time left for thinking about getting it. Judging from the conduct of my friends who now have a half million dollars, I should say that not one of them in twenty ever gave a day of concentrated thought to the use and abuse of such a fortune before he acquired it. Most of them are way back behind where they were before they got it. The majority of them start right out and spend half of their half million for a house, yacht, fleet of motor cars, a couple of dogs, a bevy of goldfish, a lot of pretty sets of books, oriental rugs, etc. This leaves them with $250,000, or, we will say, | roughly, $200,000. Then their troubles begin. They may have thought they had troubles before they were rich, but now they know what troubles are. Their re- maining $200,000 at five per cent. will yield them an income of $10,000 a year, and this is not a drop in the bucket compared to the expenses of maintaining their house, cars, gold- fish, etc. (Continued on page 30) The New Baby (A Presidential Possibility) No so long ago the stork left a new baby at our house. We all love him, of course, but we're not quite sure yet how he'll take to us. So far he hasn’t said a word one way or the other. Tn fact he is very uncommunica- tive. He ignores everybody but his mother. As far as he is concerned, we just don’t exist. He is a.fine little fellow, but we do wish he’d say something once in a while. We've bad him now several months, with never so much as a word out of him. In spite of this, his parents think he’s a wonder. They think he stands a good chance of becoming President of the United States some day. R.C. O’Brien PID Many a rose lives to blush at the price the florist gets for it. & IcareforU. UR2Ys 2 Ts me with your laugh- ing Is. JUDGE pays $5 for each one printed. He—Let’s do our to-morrow morning quarreling this evening. . | comicbooks.com