Judge, 1928-10-27 · page 10 of 36
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# Political Satire in Judge Magazine This page presents four satirical arguments for why a Republican voter converted to the Democratic Party, attributed to "Dr. Seuss" (Theodor Geisel). Each cartoon critiques Republican policies: 1. **"Put-Your-Finger-Here Man"**: Mocks wasteful military spending—the War Department sends expensive mohair earmuffs to soldiers in Alaska instead of practical aid. 2. **Farm Relief**: A Bronx apartment dweller sympathizes with rural farmers whose milk production fell. Republicans allegedly refused farm relief despite departmental requests. 3. **Aerial Outlawry**: Criticizes Republicans for allowing air-based crime without legal regulation or police enforcement. 4. **Anti-Smoking Plot**: References Herbert Hoover's alleged 1918 proposal to ban individual smoking and create one centralized pipe per state—presented as authoritarian overreach. The satire uses absurdist humor and exaggeration typical of Judge's style to argue Republicans mismanaged military budgets, ignored agricultural crises, tolerated lawlessness, and threatened personal freedoms.
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JUDGE Why I Turned Democrat Four Noisome Republican Abuses That Occasioned My Conversion—By Dr. Seuss | A> Democratic Pres. Meansa New Put-Your- Finger-Here Man! h Christmas the War aartment spends two mil urs in surprisines every soldier in Alaska with pair of mohair ear-muffs, self, places How then, Mr. any your other annual million Swallowed up? Si through the inefficienc er, is | Farm Relief Flatly Refused by Bi | the Republicans Although I live on the fifteenth floor of a Bronx farmer in a small wa | lwaller, out on the back verand: | i] In recent months Cadwaller’s milk out- i put has fallen off steadily, At first T blamed this on the new next-door sky- seraper which is shutting out the su | light, but last week [ discovered t Svery morn at dawn t and order, what publicans ¢ begged the Departr to intervene, but answer In thievery goes on, suppose, until the into the White House. depiets go on, T t Al moves Aerial Outlawry ein the Air? Unhamper felon picking an With all their talk about law th * The illus. of i the two men who do the wrapping—the String Man and the Put - Your - Finger Here Man. The latter gets his i I right, but he is xo slow wh nit comes to palling it away that it usually the bundle, The extra involved in get ting his digit out for the wasted mil . Smith would give this rts, the Man and the Put Your-Finger-Here Man who worked with him in that fish rket down on the old East Side. A Republican Plot Against Personal Liberty In 1918 Herbert Hoover went al id to When the banquet was > being lighted, Mr. sn his Philosophy of To: never president,” he is said to said, “I propose to abolish all in- dividual smoking in America. 1 do not mind smoking in itself, U Jon't want to see the ches.” Mr. Hoover’ private pipes destroye uld erect one central pipe in W: nach state would receive through 0 hington, ts quota of sm nee With the m Democrats, to arms! comicbooks.com