Judge, 1929-11-09 · page 8 of 36
Judge — November 9, 1929 — page 8: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains satirical content about early 20th-century American life: **Top cartoon** ("Light Meter Man"): A utility company worker threatens to cut off electricity for non-payment—satirizing aggressive debt collection by monopolistic utilities. **"Football Fan's Creed"**: A humorous mock-serious poem mocking college football culture, its recruiting practices, coaching mythology, and the absurd reverence fans and schools place on the sport. **Middle cartoon** ("The absent-minded doctor's car"): Visual gag about a distracted physician whose vehicle breaks down, forcing him to walk. **Bottom cartoon** (John Rockhife): A man smoking a corn-cob pipe tells another he's "nonchalant"—likely mocking pretentious social posturing or the affectation of casualness. The page reflects early 1900s American concerns: utility monopolies, college sports excess, and social pretension.
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Lieut Meter Max—dAnd if you don’t pay your bill, I'll haveta turn off th’ light! The Football Fan’s Credo That every small college win- ning two-thirds of its games hires its entire eleven from the nearest steel mill or coal mine. That the only competent play- ers on the Harvard squad are Irishmen from South Boston. That when a substitute enters the line-up for a losing team it is to instruct the quarter-back to the coach’s most complicated k play. at on the day of the Prince- ton-Yale game the Princeton 1 is imbued by Coach Roper th a definitely superhuman ‘lity which would enable it to any team in the country. at the Army squad is com- posed exclusively of past All- America players from other col- le, at there is no excuse for punting on third dow! That college professors invari- ably give football players the benefit of the doubt on examina- tion papers. T the Dartmouth football field is covered with snow by the first of October. That all stories of early-season injuries are fake proy That all - are assured of a bl. in the bond business. That Glenn Warner and Knute Rockne could fashion champion- zing success can produce a winning football —Parxe Cumsines The absent-minded doctor's car goes dead on him. “For Heaven's sake with a corn-cob pipe! Dilley’s Dictionary Pomp — A mechanical device above a cistern or a well. Pond—That which reposes in a hock shop. Pore—Having little or no prop- erty or income. Pot—A certain portion or amount of anything Poultry—A_ form of literature that embodies beautiful thought in rhythmical and metrical lan- guage. Precedent—The head of a re- public. Profit—One who forctells the fu- ture. Psalm—Part, bat not all. Pucker—A game of cards in ers bet on the value i ds. Pulley—Fine, excellent. Rack—To cause or suffer the de- struction of, Radish—The color of brick. —J. L. D. Then there is the absent- minded restaurant owner who puts a sign on his door, “Will be back in an hour, out to lunch.” Jon’t you know you can’t be nonchalant | comicbooks.com