Judge, 1930-01-25 · page 7 of 36
Judge — January 25, 1930 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page The top cartoon satirizes political rhetoric, showing a figure (likely a politician) spouting promises of "promise, love, honor, and obey" while others react with skepticism. The caption "Them there are fightin' words, stranger!" suggests the absurdity of such platitudes. The second section, "Sic Transit Gloria Mundi" by David S. Lehman, is a prose commentary lamenting how wartime glories fade into obscurity—referencing dimmed memories of WWI battles, the Pacific Fleet, and disarmament conferences. The bottom illustration humorously depicts an experimental airship or aircraft being lowered toward a boat, with the caption "Go away—those things aren't safe yet!" This appears to satirize early aviation technology as dangerously unreliable. The page reflects post-WWI American concerns about military spending, technological progress, and political dishonesty.
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JUDGE Statistic Florida raised enough grapefruit last season to blind everybody that prohibition didn't. In this commercial age, what this country needs is not only a five-cent cigar but a flock of celebrities to en- dorse it. And if fashions keep going back- wards, and milady dons bustles, the first thing you know college boys will start wearing garters. We know what Heflin is, now that _- he has been barred from the party pri- maries. He's an Independent’ / “Them there are fightin’ words, stranger!” bamacrat. 9 Sic Transit Gloria Mundi The captains and the kings have de- parted... » are the glamorous views of the Taj Mahal by moonlight, the true version of the Hula-Hula dance, and the destruction of sixty cases of Dewar's Scotch whisky by the port officials of San Francisco. . . « The shouting and the tumult has died... Faded into sweet memory are the inspired shots of the Fifth Field Artill idly unlimbering for ac- ; tion, the Pacific Fleet in full battle formation, and the meeting of the ' Conference for the Limitation of Ar- maments, ... Silenced indeed are the well-meant messages to build your body into a thing of beauty and how to do it, to place your money in a savings-account, and to work hard and sleep well and cat sensibly, and you will succeed ac- cording to the janitor who inherited one million dollars from an unknown relative... Softly into the vale of forgetfulness slip the portraits of the prize-winning steer at the Chicago Stock Show, Mus- solini reviewing the youth of Italy, and a ballet troupe taking their work- out on top of the new Chrysler build- movie newsreel theatre has closed for the night. —Davin S, Leuman The Coast Patrol Uses Plenty Enforcement is expensive, But such is prohibit Of course the biggest The cost of ammunition. “Go away—those things aren’t safe yet!” 5 comicbooks.com