Judge, 1927-06-18 · page 3 of 36
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# "Judging the News" - June 18, 1927 This page contains satirical commentary on contemporary news items rather than a political cartoon. The topics include: - **Barnum and Bailey's circus** performing a "sacred white elephant" act - **Strip poker scandal** involving two female high school teachers in Topeka, Kansas, accused of playing the game - **Chief Postmaster General Harry S. New** receiving a postal card from Indianapolis postal clerks inviting him to a "Postal Clerks' Convention"—satirizing the irony of mail getting lost while postal officials socialize - **British Medical Association's definition** of drunkenness as loss of control over faculties - **Warner Bros. fan mail** about Rin Tin Tin (the famous dog actor) - **Detroit asylum inmates** with suspended driving licenses The lower illustration captioned "The old swimmin' hole" appears to depict a chaotic, impoverished scene, likely commentary on social conditions.
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JUDGING THE NEWS One of the chief tricks of How- ard Thurston, the make a horse Pooh, pooh ! thirty y is to anish into thin air, Henry Ford did that rs ago. magician, This season Barnum and Bail Circus is featuring a sacred white This part of the pro- Vol- clephant. gram stead should be called the Act. Chief Postmaster General E S. New has received a postal « three by feet from the In- dianapolis Postal Clerks, inviting two him to attend the Postal Clerks’ Convention. The size of the thing is probably what kept it from getting lost in the mail. Two feminine high — school teachers of Topeka, Kansas, ac cused of playing strip poker, have denied the charge and say that they don’t know how to play poker. That's what makes it an interesting game. A committee of the British Medical Association has agreed that a person is drunk “when the person concerned is so much under the influence of aleohol as to have lost control of his faculties to such an extent as to render him unable to execute safely the oceu- pation on which he is engaged.” The occupation on which he is en- gaged is usually getting drunker. The old swimmin’ hole. A New York woman is suing an Austrian girl for alienating the affections of her husband, who died in 1922. It isn’t the prin- ciple, it's the spirit of the thing. Of 4,545 fan letters received the Warner Bros. Studio, were written to Rin Tin Tin. It’s to learn that there y movie-goers who pl: above brawn. brains A recent investigation showed that seventeen inmates of a De- troit Insane Asylum had auto- mobile driving licenses and went motoring over the week-ends. In all probability that’s the they're where they reason are, tional e: 1927, by them in the U. Particular attention i JUDGE, Volume 92. No. 2381. June 18,, 1927. Entered as Second: Class Mats 1, "$5.00 a year. 15c a copy try at Ja Brians Fred or advertising rates address ‘ogan, President; fact that every article and picture app E. R. Crowe & Company, Inc. y by Judge Publishing C October 21, 1881; at the Post-Offce at New York Ci 43rd § retary, ei ction J of the Copy 2$ North Michigan Ave! comicbooks.com