Judge, 1926-10-30 · page 10 of 36
Judge — October 30, 1926 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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# Political Cartoon Analysis: "Judge" Magazine This page satirizes predictions about life in the year 2000 (written from 1920). The top cartoon mocks boxing/prizefighting with exaggerated violence ("Victim—Gared! I cud scream!"). The main text presents absurd "news from 2000," lampooning contemporary concerns: - **Prohibition satire**: A bootlegger celebrates his 100th birthday, having profited enormously from illegal liquor sales—mocking the then-recent Prohibition era's actual bootlegging problem. - **Aviation fears**: A fictional Secretary of Aviation proposes limiting family airplane ownership to manage "congested airways"—satirizing anxieties about emerging aviation technology. - **Organized crime**: Bandits raid Chicago using a "battle cruiser," escaping with millions—exaggerating real 1920s gangster violence. - **"Abie's Irish Rose" reference**: A Broadway play's persistence, treating entertainment as eternal. The bottom cartoon shows an absurdly crowded car designed to accommodate excessive passengers, mocking automotive culture and overcrowding concerns of the 1920s. The satire targets anxiety about Prohibition's failure, new technologies, and urban crime.
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The Newspaper of the Next Century B FFALO, September 15, 2000— John Higgins, only man in the State livingwho was a“bootlegger” in the days of “Prohibition,” now re- ferred to byhistorians asthe American Reign of Terror, yesterday celebrated his 100th birthday anniversary at a party given at his home here. Mr. Higgins exhibited his excellent col- lection of the pre-repeal concoctions which he sold during those hectic times, and although his statement that he sometimes received twelve dollars a quart for these “liquors” drew a burst of incredulous laughter Victim—Gared! I cud scream! from the guests, he was able to verify this assertion. Mr. Higgins attributes his lon- gevity to the fact that he never drank any of his wares. Washington—Horace A. Horace Secretary of Aviation, said yesterday that to relieve the congested condi- tion of the airways he will attempt to have legislation enacted to prevent families from owning more than one plane. ( cago—A small army of bandits tiled down Lake Michigan yester- day ina battle cruiser, and after shell- ing a portion of the lake front, went ashore and pillaged — twenty-three banks, escaping in their ship with an estimated total of $17,000,000 in cash and negotiable securities. Police started an investigation on their re- turn from outlying districts where they had taken refuge. Mustapha-bey Roth, who memorized the Koran and the Rigveda in six months each, an- nounced last Monday that yeu Constantinople ter ten rs of study he had memorized the names of the French Premiers since 1915. New York—Persistent and fever- ish rumors that “Abie’s Irish Rose” had closed were quelled last night when the performance usual, arted as W. D. Stoclily, Jr. comicbooks.com