Judge — July 23, 1927 — page 9: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE Romance in the Big City He stood on the curb waiting for the flow of traffic to hesitate so that he might cross the street in comparative safety. On the opposite side of the strect, also waiting for the lights to change, stood a girl. He caught his breath as he looked at her. She was the girl of whom he had dreamed, the one he had often pictured as his pal and helpmate. He would mect her as soon as the green light flashed. He would have to make that old, old excuse that he “must have met her before.” He could mar that part all right. Then he would invite her to lunch, he would ask if he might call at her home. Slowly the friendship would pro- gress, would ripen into love. He would ask her to marry him— they would build a house in some suburb, a vine-covered cottage Then the light chan to green—and the girl stepped into a taxi and was gone. WILL YOU LUFF HER IN_DECEMBER AS IN MAY. Here’s a yell we picked up in the Criminal Courts Build- ing. A driver was being ea- amined by Magistrate Hinch. “I tried to blow my horn, but it didn’t work!” said the driver. “But why didn’t you slow down instead of running into that poor old lady?” queried his honor. “Oh, boy!” ex- claimed greasy Alfred, “That’s one on me, judge; I never thought of that!” These bicycles are a terrible thing. IS PROHIBITION WORKING? A Nation-Wide Investigation Conducted by JUDGE “When we got here the legislature was in session” Il Drinking Through Georgia (Lhe second report of Jcvar's trained investigators touring the country to determine the real state of prohibition.) Atlanta, Georgia, July, 1927. Editor Jupar, New York City. We got your letter about the South, so we came to Atlanta right away, because it is the big- gest city in Georgia, which is a fine Southern state. Well, you'll be surprised to hear it, but Pro- hibition is working great down here! All the people are in favor of it! Everybody is interested in prohibition, too. When we got here the legislature was in session and we went around to the capitol to see the senators, but there was no one there but the janitor, He told us that all the legislators were out investigating the liquor question, so that just’ shows you how interested they are. Well, we ran into a Senator Boomer while we were investi- gating our hotel, and we asked him, “Is prohibition working in Georgia?” He said it certainly was. He explained another in- teresting thing to us. ‘Politics is the big factor in Prohibition in the South,” the Se his fine baritone. ator boomed in “That is, all the senators and mayors chiefs of police are Democ (A sort of secret Southern soc I understand.) If you are ar- rested down here they don’t ask you what you did but what you are. See? If you're a Repub- i ainst the law. Sup the Senator went on, 1, it’s pose now,” “vou were bootleggin, caught ‘ and you were brought up before Well, if you were a Democrat, naturally you voted me to be tried. for me—if I sent you to jail it would be admitting that J was wrong, which would be the same as admitting that I ought to go jail, which, of course, would be a nst the Constitution. So the only bad boys who go to prison for breaking the Volstead Act are the Republicans. However,” he explained, “there aren't any Re publicans so that makes it easy “Are the people in favor of Prohibition?” Mr. Gordon put in “In favor of it? The the Senator cried, elap- ping his hands gleefully. “Why, Prohibition has made the farmer in the South. Before the Volstead Act there were only a few moon sharply love it! shiners in the business and they controlled the market. warm light stole into the Se > “all the farmers make money. They can’t supply the demand. Gen- practical But no ator’s fine old fac (Continued on page 27) comicbooks.com