Judge, 1927-11-19 · page 3 of 36
Judge — November 19, 1927 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine - November 26, 1927 This page satirizes contemporary news items under the heading "Judging the News." The four brief items mock: 1. **Oxford's rowing team** training backwards (suggesting English eccentricity) 2. **New York City traffic relief** through night deliveries (practical but odd) 3. **An elderly Indian man** claiming longevity from never running for President (political humor suggesting U.S. politics is stressful) 4. **The King of Arabia's motor cars**—the joke being that one man owns multiple wives' worth of vehicles The cartoon below illustrates the final item: a doctor advises a father who sleep-walks to take golf clubs along, getting "fullest possible benefit" from the habit. This combines medical humor with the era's golf obsession among wealthy Americans. The satire throughout is gentle, reflecting 1920s upper-class preoccupations.
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NOV23'27 §=©Oarsz5y389 JUDGING THE NEWS The Oxford University golf- In an effort to relieve traffic An Indian, who is said to be ing team has gone on the water in New York City, a plan is now the oldest living human being, wagon while training for their under way to have all deliveries has lived in) Mexico for 118 annual match with Cambridge. made at night. Well, it’s about This is just another example of — time they the way the English do every- — leggers. thing backwards. years. Very likely he attributes got after the boot- his longevity to the fact that he has never run for President. According to the Associated In an average group of one We learn from the newspapers — Press, the King of Arabia has hundred men, one becomes rich, that Sweden’s most famous mind had some motor cars built which four well-to-do, thirty indepen- reader is planning to locate in are large enough to accommodate dent and sixty-five are supported Hollywood. Our prediction is his twenty-four wives. Ask the by relatives. It seems they all that he’ll starve to death. man who owns one! have it pretty soft. The doctor couldn’t cure father of walling in his sleep, so he advised him to take a set of golf clubs along and get the fullest possible benefit out of the habit. GE, Volume 93, No 2404, November 26, 1927. Entered as Second-Class Matter. October 21, 1881, at the Post Office at New York City 9. Additional entry at Jamaica, L. 1, NY. $5.00. a year. 1Sc a copy ork - ca co 1 Weekly ig 4 w 62 ra 1927. by tein the US. aid Great Britain: Fred L. Rogan, 7 0 . West 43rd St. New Vork. N,V. Particular attention le fact that every artic a UL protected under the provisions of Section 3 of the Copyright Law of the U.S q L a emeenits psoas comicbooks.com