Judge, 1929-06-01 · page 10 of 36
Judge — June 1, 1929 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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# "For Boys Only" – Judge Magazine Satire This page ridicules the Boy Scouts of America Handbook, attacking it as filled with factual errors and nonsense. The main text mocks the Handbook's incompetence through absurdist humor: a father claims he'd rather give his son dynamite than the handbook; a contributor sarcastically reports following the magazine's advice caused injury. The author then catalogues alleged errors—claims about "sphagnum moss" that contradict the handbook's own statements, and false assertions about bear classification. The cartoon at top shows domestic chaos (a man holding a large plank amid scattered debris) captioned about a wife being "even with him for taking her on a camping trip"—likely suggesting the Handbook's camping advice is dangerously flawed. The lower illustration depicts a salesman using the nonsensical word "moderne" to describe goods, satirizing commercial humbug alongside institutional incompetence. The satire suggests the Handbook is unreliable guidance for youth, combining factual errors with impractical advice presented confidently.
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For Boys Only The spring edition of the Boy Scouts of America this will immediately full of more errors than Handbook is here ever. In fact, it is just one big fib after an- other. A father wrote to me recently: “I would sooner gi my son a stick of dynamite to play with than the Boy Scouts Hand- book.” My reply asked: do not you? is, why do not you give your son a stick of dynamite to play with rather than the Boy Scouts’ Hand book, hi Several days later he wrote en closing a bit of little Blatchford’s shoe which he had scraped off the ndelier and said that he had followed my ad- vice. The cute little momzer was quite spoiled, but at least he d from the Boy chs was sa Scouts, Just to give you a vague idea of what the Handbook is like, on gain, JUDGE YES MADAME THESE ARE INTENSELY “MODERNE "QUOTED THE SALESPERSON Here's the bit we mopped up you dead-pans % ith in Spokane, but I probably never even crack, A trav- eling man, held over in Peoria by the rain, was grous ing. “Say, this looks like the Flood,” he murmured to the waitress. “The what?” a d Stupid. “The Flood, the Flood!” said Morty. “Surely you read about Noah and the Ark and the landing on Ararat!” * hiz, mister, I ain't seen a tabloid in three days!" the waitress, rd No wonder they have capital panish ment in Illinois. rush out and try sphagnum moss, despite the fact that R. B Every younker num, author of num Moss, Its and Cure,” distinetly tere is no such thing as sphagnum moss. I repeat, there is no such thing as sphag num moss. Further more, the says: : is no such thing as sphagnum moss.” From this it is pretty clear that sphag- num moss is rare, at least. So lay off that there sphagnum moss, editors of the Boy Scouts’ Handboo Then, on Page 2 it says: “There many different kinds of bears but they all fall into four groups.” Who ever wrote that never saw atbear, let picture Any od bear-lover will tell you that bears fall into three groups. We had a bear once that fell into two groups. comicbooks.com