Judge, 1927-06-11 · page 3 of 36
Judge — June 11, 1927 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine Cartoon Analysis (June 11, 1927) The main cartoon depicts a soldier or military officer telling a scantily-clad woman to "go home and put some clothes on," while a man in a suit observes. The caption asks "Why not close 'all' the immoral shoes?" This appears to satirize enforcement of morality laws during the Prohibition era (1920-1933). The soldier likely represents law enforcement or government authority attempting to regulate public behavior and dress. The joke suggests the hypocrisy of selective moral enforcement—if authorities want to eliminate "immoral" behavior, why not ban shoes themselves? The cartoon mocks the era's conflicts between moral reformers and public resistance to government intervention in personal freedoms. The absurdist punchline highlights how arbitrary such regulations seemed to ordinary citizens.
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A company of — Hollywood moving picture stars have sailed for the Fiji Islands to work on a new picture. Well, the head hunters shouldn't bother them any. The International Post Gradu- ate Medical Association of North America has conferred the degree of Doctor of Medicine upon President Coolidge. Anti-Third termers hoping for a are now good apple erop. “LADY — Go HOME AND PUT SOME “CLOTHES on!” Why not close JUDGING THE NEWS A jeweler of Eric. vania, Pennsyl was cured of deafness when a golf ball struck him on the head. ‘The cha are he was also cured of hanging around golf courses. ces Eleven students of Princeton University have been suspended for driving automobiles around In the good old days they used to ride through col on a pony. the campus. “all” the immoral The bandit queen of a accused of cently gang 242 crimes was. re- captured by. the police in a surprise raid. a surprise! Chicago This is Great Britain’s first woman air pilot claims to have established a world’s record by reaching an altitude of 16,000 feet. A’ cor- respondent writes in that even without an aeroplane his wife ean go up in the air much higher than \' ISSN K ik JUDGE, Volume 92. No. 2380. Ju 1879. "Additional entry at Jamaica, L. 1., righted 1927, by them in the U.S. and Great Bri William Morris Houghton, Secretary,627 West 4 11, 1927, N.Y. $5, ions of Se 30 For advertising rates address E. R. Crowe & Company, Inc., New York: 25 Vanderbilt Avenue. i 3 urer and Ass't Secretary; ring in JuDGx is protect hicago: 225 North Michigan Avenue comicbooks.com