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# "Judging the News" - August 27, 1927 This page satirizes contemporary news items through brief commentary and a cartoon. The main cartoon depicts a family packed into an overloaded car, with Mr. Jones asking his wife "are we touring or moving?" — mocking the trend of Americans purchasing automobiles and cramming possessions into them for road trips, blending vacation with relocation. The text items mock: speeding motorists facing church penalties; declining drinking in England (presumably post-Prohibition); canoeists required to carry lanterns; Mussolini's decree against cologne in Italy; and blonde women marrying wealthy men. The overall theme celebrates automotive culture while poking fun at its excesses and the absurd regulatory responses it generates. The crowded car perfectly captures 1920s anxieties about rapid motorization's social consequences.
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JUDGING THE NEWS Motorists who violate the Den- ver speed laws are now being sen- tenced to church, Well, that’s always been the penalty for one- arm driving. Ina recent speech in the House of Lords, Lord Dawson said that drinking in England was rapidly What that decreasing. country needs is Paris that skirts are to be worn even shorter this coming winter. Well it’s all off now! News comes from The Bureau of Navigation of the Department of Commerce has announced that spooning canoe- ists must carry lanterns at night. What they really need are stop Premicr Benito Mussolini has now decreed that there must be no more adenoid cases in Italy. I] Duce certainly makes ‘em pay through the nose ! A Missouri parson who has married 4,500 couples says that blondes mz the dumbest brides. This may be another reason why a good Prohibition law. — lights! gentlemen prefer them, JYBGE, Volume 93. No. 2391 ‘Additional shtry ‘at J and Copyrighted 1927, . New York, N.Y." August 27, 1927. Entered as Second-Class Matter, October 21, 1881. at the Post-Office at New Vork City, § 5.00 a. year. Pi fcckly by Judes Publishing Co. fne.. 627 Weak aura a the U.S. and Great Britain; Fred 1 man Anthony, Vice-President; Joseph T. Cooney, “Barticular attention is called to ene tact that rd ‘ Picture appearing in JUDGE is protected under the provisio w of the ew York; 225 North Michigan Ave., Chicago. Western Manager, Reginald L. Cary. ‘of Section 3 of the {Advertising Department: 627 west Sra Advertising Manager, C. Stuart Heminway comicbooks.com