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Judge — March 30, 1929 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page (March 27, 1929) This page contains editorial commentary ("Judging the News") and one main cartoon. The cartoon depicts a domestic scene: a wife catches her husband painting their car rather than working. Her exasperated question—"Good heavens, John, what are you doing?" and his reply "Are you blind? I'm painting the car"—satirizes the absurdity of Depression-era priorities and misplaced focus on appearances over financial responsibility. The accompanying editorial snippets mock contemporary figures like Portes Gil (Mexico's president) and critique 1920s social issues: one-way streets for pedestrians, and literature censorship. The overall tone suggests Judge was critiquing frivolous spending habits and social absurdities during the pre-crash economic period of 1929.
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JUDGING THE NEWS According to Professor Schaef- fer of Kansas University, blind- folded people travel in cireles. And rrding to the cigarette manufacturers, the cir- cles are social, always These one- pedestrians are streets for ugh on the man who has to wait for his wife. When he gets nervous he can’t walk up and down, American bridge, we learn, is a combination of Auction and Con- tract devised by a Pittsburgh editor. And its sponsor, we pre- sume, has worked out a way to discard the soot. clever undesirable Portes Gil, we read, is pro- nal president of Mexico. The vision being that no revolution The Prohibition Bureau now plans to put out posters portray: ing the evils of the liquor traffic and the benefits of prohibition. And in time we predict they'll be plastered all over. If Mr. John S. Sumner knew a about literature he'd 1 lot of these modern are more to be pitied than censored, P more Wire—Good heavens, John, what are you doing?” “Are you blind? I'm painting the car.” JUDGE, Yo 2474. Mraret 20, toe? “Pntered as Seonnd-Class Matter October 21, 188] Ke Stisnas es entry faiea, 1. 1 $5.00 a year, y. Published Weekly by Hast 48th Street, New Yor ana copyrighted Tozsby it to. the U, 3. reat Tirttasn: Fred L. Rogan, President: Ralph P. Cam: ‘Treasurer: Josepd Secretary, 18 East 43th St., Particular attention ts called to the fact that every article and picture appearing in JUDGE ls protected under the t rovinie oo ‘of Nectiog 3 of the Copyright Law of tbe U. 8 York City, N.Y., under act of M ‘New York N,V 1 comicbooks.com