Judge, 1927-05-21 · page 3 of 36
Judge — May 21, 1927 — page 3: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page (May 21, 1927) The main cartoon depicts a man and woman with children discovering a large empty storefront, with the man saying he found a "nice, secluded spot for our Sunday picnic." The joke satirizes urban overcrowding and lack of public spaces—even abandoned buildings become attractive as picnic locations. The scattered text items above mock various contemporary issues: drunkenness in New York City, Chinese laundry workers leaving Chicago, college suicide rates, Henry Ford's gin bottle collection, cotton stocking manufacturing, postal service inefficiency, and blue laws (Sunday restrictions on activities like golf in South Carolina). The satire targets American social anxieties of the 1920s: urbanization, immigration, mental health crises among students, and Prohibition-era contradictions.
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Mi @; Statisticians claim that drunken- Over six hundred million pairs The post-office department an ness in New York City is steadily of cotton stockings were manu- nounces it is out to get the New increasing. Something should be factured in the United States last Je done about closing the city’s year. And still there are people take speak-easies on Sunday. Who say our export business is dropping off. mail robbers even if. it years. This being the ease, why not address a letter to them? According to a press report In Turk hundreds of Chinese laundry A college publication — says a OR UEREY a woman AEVEr Sees workers are leaving Chicago and that college men are wanted for € and before the marriage. returning to China, Damnclever, the movies, and that sereen tests 9 ™ meniea she idocsn:t ‘see shim these Chinese! will be made at a number of the Y¢TY much afterwards. prominent universities in the near . Henry Ford now owns one of — future. This may explain the In South Carolina people who the finest collections of old gin wave of student suicides that is play golf on Sunday are arrested. bottles in America. This is a sweeping the United States. This is probably the work of field in which he'll find plenty of The Clean Language League of competition. America. RE.FULLER + Meavows—There, Mandy, didn't ‘ve tell ye I’d find a nice, secluded spot fer our Sunday ‘picnic? JUDGE, Volume 92. ‘Additional entry at Jama $5.00 a year. 15c a copy. Published Weekly by Judie F Pi 27. by them in the U. S. aa Great Britain; Fred L. Rogan, Br lortie Houghton, Secretary, 627 West 43rd St.. New York. N- ay 21,1927. Entered as Second-Class Matter, October 21. 1881, at the Post-Office at New York Cit Younger Act of March 3, 1879, y orl and copyrigh retary; William h protected under Son 3 of the Copyright Law of the U jon: For advertising rates addrese E. R. Crowe & Company, Inc, New Vork: 28 Vanderbilt Avenue. Chicago: 225 North Michigan Avenue. 1 comicbooks.com