Judge, 1927-01-08 · page 3 of 36
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine, January 8, 1927 The main cartoon, titled "How the Flivver Owners feel at the Auto Show," depicts a crowd of working-class men in coats and hats gathered around an expensive automobile priced at $2,500—a fortune for ordinary Americans in 1927. The term "Flivver" refers to the Ford Model T, the affordable mass-market car. The satire targets the vast wealth gap: while common people drove cheap Fords, luxury automobiles remained impossibly expensive. The cartoon mocks the disconnect between what average car owners could afford and the extravagant vehicles displayed at auto shows, implying both amazement and bitter resentment at the financial gulf separating social classes during the prosperous 1920s.
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LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS JUDGE WEATHER FORECAST (For the Automobile Show FREE AIR THE WORLD’S WITTIEST WEEKLY SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1927 SAM PROBES PROFITS Cutcaco beer costs $3 a barrel to make and sells for $60. It's about time the Government put a stop to all this profiteering. AN automobile engineer claims the car of the future will have a 150 inch wheelbase. The width, how- ever, will remain about the same as that of a prostrate pedestrian. A MOVING picture actress has had her legs insured for a million dollars. To the film star, of course, this is mere pin money. A TRADE journal points out that practically every city in America has a school for instruction in automo- bile driving. Pedestrians are living in fear of the day when these schools advertise a course in target practice. LANDIS PROBES SCANDAL Tur New York World says Judge Landis should be slow in coming to a decision on the new baseball scan- dal because “what he does will be followed as avidly as though Govern- ment officials rather than baseball players were involved.” This differ- ence, of course, is that baseball play- ers can hardly plead patriotism. COOLIDGE PROBES RAY Docror Cooutncr’s recently dis- covered cathode ray is said to be able:to grow hainon arabbit.. “What won't science do next! A suGGEsTION has been made that we designate one week of the new year as “Pedestrian Wee! Sport- ing motorists seem to be in favor and offer no objection to a short closed season. Tue New Jersey Sunday Blue Law advocates seem determined to change we Caucasians into a six-day race. How the Flivver Owners feel at the Auto Show JUDGE, Volume 9. Published Weekly a Ass't Treasurer ss't Secretary; William Morris Hought etary: 627. W Jupak is protect For advertising rates address E.R. 8, January 8, 1927, Entered as Second-Class Matter, October 21, 1881, at the Post-Office at New York City, N. Y., under Act of Marc ited 1927 by Leslie-Judge Co., in the U.S. and Great Britain: Douglas H feat 43d St.. New York, N we & Company, Ine, Ni a Cooke, President; Kendall Banning, Norman Anthony N. Particular attention isc ted under the provisions of Section 3 of the Copyright Law of the U. New York: 25 Vanderbilt Avenue. Chicago: sd to fact that every b Michigan Avenue. comicbooks.com