Judge — December 12, 1925 — page 10: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# "The Man Who Never Gets Started" This comic satirizes a chronic procrastinator. The protagonist is invited to a boxing match but declines, proposing instead to listen to a radio broadcast at home—supposedly to save money. Once home, he gets distracted by increasingly absurd radio programming: a Puerto Rican Commerce Board address, a Hawaiian station with nonsensical chatter ("whee-ee-awk-whee"), and Irish tourist advertisements. Each distraction derails his original plan. By the final panel, when asked "How did the fight make out?" he's bewildered—he never actually listened to the fight broadcast either. The satire targets people who rationalize avoiding activities with excuses, only to waste time on other distractions instead. The radio references suggest this is from radio's early popularity era, when broadcasts were novel entertainment that could easily sidetrack listeners from their stated intentions.