Judge, 1928-01-28 · page 3 of 36
Judge — January 28, 1928 — page 3: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# "Judging the News" Page Analysis This page from *Judge* magazine contains news commentary and two cartoons. The upper illustration depicts chaotic activity across a landscape, though specific figures are unclear from the image quality. The text section "Judging the News" includes brief satirical comments on contemporary topics: a Johns Hopkins cancer cure, Tokyo's new subway, Swedish telephone technology, and President Coolidge's letter to the National Aeronautical Association regarding an international air conference in Kansas City. The lower cartoon, captioned "Dapper Dan, Chicago gangster, takes in a melodrama," shows figures in a theater box watching a stage performance. The satire appears to mock Chicago's notorious gangster activity by depicting a criminal attending entertainment—likely commenting on the public visibility or audacity of organized crime during Prohibition era Chicago.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
JUDGING THE NEWS A professor of Jolins Hopkins University has discovered that he can kill cancer germs by keep ing the patient at a temperature of 111M, degrees Fahrenheit for thalf hour, So far, the only ob jection scems to be that it would also kill the patient. Secretary Davis has notified sident Coolidge that United States arsenals need additional mani s to the extent of some five hundred and sixteen million dollars. It looks as though our State Department was) planning to establish some more good will in Central America, The first’ subway of East has just) been opened in Tokyo. the J get some practical use their Ju-jutsu. anese public a ¢ the Par officially Phis will give ce to out of President Coolidge has written a letter to the National Aero- nautical Association that an international ence be held next. y suggesting air confer- ar, Mr, Coolidge probably feels that the Repub for the present. san Convention sas City will be quite in Kan- sufficient Ni NN | A Swedish inventor has per- fected a device which records telephone messages when the in tended recipient does not answer the phone, Just think of all the fun operators could have giving out wrong messages. The seeretary of the Board of Missions of ‘the Presbyterian Chureh says that outside of four or five cities you cannot find ten qualified physicians for the ten million people in Persia. All of which substantiates the old adage that the Persians are a mgg people. —Jack Suvrrrewortit {for It & comicbooks.com