Judge, 1929-09-21 · page 12 of 36
Judge — September 21, 1929 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Explanation for Modern Readers This Judge magazine page contains three distinct pieces of satire: **Top cartoon ("If you really want to wake up early...")**: A visual joke about an overly elaborate, dangerous alarm clock that launches people violently out of bed—satirizing impractical modern gadgetry. **Middle comic strip**: References contemporary political figures. "Edison has picked his successor" alludes to Thomas Edison's influence. The strip appears to mock prominent men of the era (names visible: Lindbergh, Coolidge, Will Rogers, Al Smith) and their habits or quirks—suggesting these powerful figures are being satirized for their mannerisms or public personas. The "East Side/West Side" reference likely evokes New York social divisions. **Bottom story ("Revising the Calendar")**: A boardroom satire where executives of a calendar company debate naming a newly-created thirteenth month. The humor lies in their absurd elimination process: rejecting "Nellie" because it sounds unrefined, and finally proposing "Charles" for arbitrary reasons (it has an "R," extends oyster season). This mocks corporate decision-making as fundamentally irrational despite pretensions of seriousness.
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—— To a Late Sweetheart Full many a golden hour I've spent in thoughts of you; Hoping, praying and longing, Feeling a little blue, Sick unto death of awaiting That moment we'll meet, sub- lime; Wondering s wondering, Why you've never been on time. —Carnore Cannorn On poor roads the motorist travels at his own risk. On the good ones it’s the pedestrian who travels at his own risk. The ones who ride rumble seats or camp out aren't the only tourists who get soaked. —R. C. O'Brien JUDGE If you really want to wake up early, this alarm will do the trick, NOW THAT EDISON HAS PICKED HIS SUCCESSOR OTHER , BIG MEN WILL BC ZZ Sp THAT'S THE KID FoR (WE HAST SAID A WORD IN A WEEK/ COOLIDGE PICKING THEIRS EE Ze - < HE HAS A PERFECT MANIA FOr. CHEWING com! , eh J @yQ EAST SIDE WEST SIDE AL SMITH Witt Revising the Calendar Four solemn, elderly gentle- men, wearing the conventional frock coats of big business, sat around a mahog: table in the director's room of the Cockeye Calendar Co., Inc. On the ce of the table 1. bellished with a maid leadi brindle cow to pasture. The title was “Good Old Bess.” The directors puffed on their fifty-cent cigars, knitted their brows in deep thought and said nothing. At last the president broke the tense silence: “Gentlemen, what are we go- ing to call this new thirteenth mont “Let's decide that by the pro- cess of elimination,” said the vice- ¥ n start in by y mother's name,” said the ary, with a catch in his voice. “Why do you scorn its” mother, Mr. I don't think that ‘Friday the 17th of Nellie’ would sound just right in a letter,” volunteered the treas- urer, tactfully, “Personal a name,” s . I like Charles for id the President; “not only because it has an ‘Rin it and prolongs the oyster but because I've always wa TRAIN HIS OWN hoy by that name icomicbooksec on