Judge, 1927-01-29 · page 5 of 36
Judge — January 29, 1927 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page **Main Content:** The top cartoon depicts a night club waiter's young son doing arithmetic on a blackboard—a satirical commentary on how complex income tax calculations had become. The accompanying article "How to Determine What Your Income Tax Will Be" offers deliberately absurd instructions (deduct "a ton of coal," "the Government's 25 per cent credit," etc.), mocking the incomprehensible nature of the tax system itself. **Secondary Material:** Below is a cartoon about office workers seeking medical excuses, captioned as offering "Devices offered to busy and prudent employers, who nevertheless desire to comply with office traditions." The scattered one-liners appear to be typical Judge humor about matrimony, alcohol, and politics—standard satirical fare of the era. The overall page targets taxation complexity and workplace culture.
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JUDGE How to Determine What Your Income Tax Will Be Pp" down the amount you feel you should have earned during the year. Subtract 10 per cent. for breakage. Deduct wife, two dependent chil- dren, a ton of coal and the Govern- ment’s 25 per cent. credit. Divide by the number of income tax collectors and add a quart of oil. Multiply the result by the amount of time you’ve spent figuring. Add benevolences, _yesterday’s bank clearances and this and that. Total all of the figures on an adding machine and let simmer for fifteen minutes. Add or deduct your telephone number, the license number of your car and the number of false starts you've made to the dentist’ Throw all the figures away and for- get it—you’re exempt anyhow. Frank H. Williams. The Uncertain Moment “Are you insured against theft, fire, storm and acciden| “God only knows—I've just fin- ished reading the insurance policy.” rial Simile—It will create as little in- terest as a sham battle would in Chicago. Critical “What ails Jones these days?” “Tis wife’s insomnia, his daugh- ters’ nerves, his mother’s dyspep: his son’s headaches and his father’s rheumatism.” Ss The things a man says when he is drunk with liquor, are never as foolish as those he says when in- toxicated with love. St The kind of men that telephone girls forget—subscribers. Reena Device offered to busy and prudent employers, who nevertheless desire Spain has its bullfights, but the to comply with office traditions. United States has its elections. comicbooks.com