Judge, 1928-04-21 · page 3 of 36
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# Judging the News - April 18, 1928 This satirical page mocks contemporary news stories: **Top cartoon**: Skeletal figures hurdle over barriers labeled with letters, satirizing competitive news coverage or journalistic "races." **Column items** (left to right): - Washington engineers debate expanding the Senate chamber—satirized as absurd - Charles Lindbergh's celebrity causing crowd hysteria - A physicist's estimate of the world's population (6.5 billion) - Will Hays (film censor) blocking French films from Senate investigation - Ivan Mestrovic's bronze Indian statues arriving in Chicago - A British scientist's claim that Do Do birds existed until 1905 **Bottom illustration**: "In the Spring!" shows a man's face emerging from urban buildings, paired with a woman's face—likely satirizing spring romance or renewal amid modern city life. The page exemplifies Judge's style: mocking celebrity obsession, government inefficiency, and pseudo-scientific claims.
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® Oe garisit JUDGING THE NEWS V JAsuINGtoN engineers are now planning to move the Senate chamber some forty feet north so as to let in’ more All right, wisecrackers, hop to it! air. Ciraners Lixpsenau has reiter- ated his desire to get away from ¢ ds and feminine admir Evidently the Colonel's lady and Judy O'Grady are under the skin. ers. getting Will AR Hays is in France conferring with the French film censors. If Mr, Hays isn’t in a Senate inves ion, it’s a Mack Sennett one. swe yo to press. Mr A Wastixeron physicist 4 mates that the total weight of the world iS approximately 6,592, 000,000,000,000,000,000 Well, well! It's after all! esti a small world In the Spring! TSS1, at the P ly by Judge P Anth [vs Mestrovic, the has brow sculptor, ht two bronze statues of American Indians from Ju Slavia to be erceted in’ Chicago. And two more redskins bit the dust! A. Burrisin scientist: now esti- eA mates that De Do be- came extinet in about By 1965 perhaps the Do De Deo Do birds will be extinet, too —Jnek Suerrreworrit comicbooks.com