Judge, 1926-03-27 · page 3 of 36
Judge — March 27, 1926 — page 3: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page (March 25, 1926) This page contains brief satirical commentary items rather than a single political cartoon. The main illustration, titled "Spring Song," depicts a steam locomotive and automobile colliding or passing dangerously close, with sound effects ("TOOOT-TOOOOOT" and "SQUAWK-SQUAAAWK!") emphasizing the noise and chaos. The humor appears to satirize the friction between modern transportation modes—trains versus automobiles—during the 1920s era when cars were rapidly proliferating. The brief text items above address unrelated topics: Isaac Walton fishing, marriage ceremony music selection, Parisian sidewalks, missing persons statistics, and a Pittsburgh plumbing institute. The cartoon's joke is straightforward: the comedic collision of old (rail) versus new (automotive) technology.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
©cig696361 “*LIFE LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS’® JUDGE (Tore latest invention for the followers of Isaac Walton is a steel fishing rod with a compartment in the handle for carrying the bait. We understand that this compartment is built to hold nearly # pint. sae HERE has recently been some agitation to find a more appropriate tune for the mar- riage ceremony than “Mendelssohn's Wedding March al cynics. we understand, have suggested “The Prisoner's Song.” ere Moss sidewalks were recently installed in some parts of Paris. Visiting Amer- icans who unconsciously venture upon them make several lunges at passing lamp-posts and then hasten home to sign the pledge. v 1s claimed that in this country millions of letters go astray every year because of incorrect addresses. So far, however, we have not heard of the income tax people making any such mistake. rd Tae bure 1 of missing persons is said to be busier in April than in any other month of the year. As soon as the spring cleaning is over, however, most of the husbands turn up again. cd ne Carnegie Institute of Pittsburgh has established a chair of plumbing. This branch of learning. we understand, is doing very nicely except that the more advanced students forget to come to class. Spring Song Entered as Se dee Co. ris Hought * fest 43d St ‘cr is protected under the provision advertising rates address F. R. Crowe & Company, Inc Matter, October 21, 1881, at Britain aw of the U 25 Vanderbilt Avenue, Chicago: 235 North Michigan Avenue year, Sea copy. Joreph T. Cooney, picture appearing 1a, comicbooks.com