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# "Judging the News" - September 22, 1928 This page contains brief satirical news commentary and one cartoon. The main cartoon, titled "Try This On Her Old Man," depicts a well-dressed older man entering a room where a younger man lounges with a woman, drinking. The caption suggests the scenario satirizes parental disapproval of courtship behavior. The text items mock various contemporary issues: Dr. William Bowie's coal estimates, Italy's bathtub shortage, the Mayor of Peking's hair-tax policy, American tourists' excessive luggage in Switzerland, and a camel-breaking voting straw poll. The humor relies on absurdist exaggeration of real situations to criticize social pretensions and bureaucratic oddities of the Jazz Age era.
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Dr. William Bowie, Govern- ment scientist, estimates that the earth will be two degrees cooler in sixteen million years. Well, perhaps by that time the coal miners and the operators will have settled their dispute. The of Peking, we learn, ordered all native women under thirty to bob their hair or pay a tax. It appears to us that China is letting itself in for another Tongue War. Mayor has asi. G9 DA > Signor Alfredo Campione has denied in the press that there is a searcity of bathtubs in Italy. This, of course, explains how has produced so many tenors, This year U. S. tourists are not allowed to enter Soviet Rus- sia with than two suits, three pairs of shoes, nine shirts, six neckties, and two wedding rings. That makes it sort of hard on our traveling movie stars. { more JUDGING THE NEWS William C, Durant has offered ,000 prize for the best plan ke the 18th Amendment ef- fective. With no thought of re- ward, we suggest passing a law to make drinking compulsory. ton A straw vote recently the first cabin of the $ jestic gave Smith a ma 3 76 votes. According to the Drys, however, it takes more than a straw vote to break the camel's back. —Jack Snetriewortit Try Tis OX Hen Orn Max When he catches you petting with his daughter and drink- ing his pre-war stuff, be nonchalant—light one of his Perfectos. JUDGE, Volume 05, No. 2447, September Is Additional entry at Jamal And copyrighted 192%, by it ta the U. 8 Entered aa Secsod-Class Matter, October 21, ISS1, at the yea ' 4 y.$: 9 B ‘and Great Britain; Fred L. Kogan, Presid; New York, N.Y, Particular attention is called to the fact that every article and Law of the U. 1 > comicbooks.com