Judge, 1928-09-08 · page 7 of 36
Judge — September 8, 1928 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Page This page contains three distinct humor pieces: 1. **"Studiode"**: A poem mocking artists and designers who claim to work in prestigious "studios" rather than ordinary factories or shops—satirizing pretension in creative professions. 2. **"New Method for Locating Speakeasies"**: A humorous article (by R.C. O'Brien) describing using a red-and-blue car parked on streets to locate illegal bars. During Prohibition, speakeasies were underground alcohol establishments. The joke is that frequented locations would have the car parked there repeatedly, serving as an inadvertent marker. 3. **"Protected by Poverty"**: A brief social commentary suggesting poor people face less theft risk because they have nothing worth stealing. The cartoons are largely satirical takes on contemporary urban life and social attitudes of the Prohibition era.
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Studiode Oh, people do not work-io, Design, create or clerk-io, Ignite the midnight oil-io, Engage in honest toil-io In factory or store-io Or office any more-io. Such working spots are crude-io, Vor callings are pursued-io And fickle fame is wooed-ic By each one in “his Studic —Cyrano New Method for Locating Speakeasies We have discovered method for locating. spe In our neighborhood, anyway. Believe it or not, speakeasies sometimes aren't so easy to You have to walk up and down block two or three times be But with our method speakeasies can be located without any difficulty. We use a car in our research work. It is a peculiar car, just a little different from the cars you usually It is painted ted whit It is a car one can se you spot them all. we don't own the car. It belongs to a friend of ours by the But by ns of this car we locate the keasies. We just walk alor the streets and wherever we s that car parked we know there is a speakeasy. And we see it parked in front of fifteen or twen- ty places every day. —R. C. O'Brtex name of Gus Whoosis. me spec Protected by Poverty Rich men are buying planes, so can fly to and from. their if any. The world is get- ting safer for the poor man every day. the GOING TOMAINE FOREIGN OUTING MAYBE THEREFORE MOURNER MONTH “Thin? dragged through a knot hol yearn to hear these melodiou duction actually does draw ards? tion guaranteed. No splinters. you through a knot hole. (Avvt.) Why, my dear, you look as though you'd been What stout person does not The Seuss System of Re- Satisfac- wing. Tinen ann Huxory Husnaxn—Alright—put it on the table and let me eat. comicbooks.com