Judge, 1930-03-01 · page 6 of 36
Judge — March 1, 1930 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Page This page contains two satirical cartoons commenting on contemporary issues: **Top cartoon**: A Boy Scout encounters what appears to be a large military figure carrying a knapsack, criticized for improper carrying technique. This likely satirizes either military preparedness concerns or the Boy Scout movement itself. **Bottom cartoon**: A watchman warns a woman she's "sitting on dynamite," while a sheik responds dismissively. This appears to reference post-WWI anxieties about anarchist violence and radical threats, combined with satirizing the "sheik" craze—a 1920s fad of romanticizing Middle Eastern figures. The text column "You Can't Win" critiques various social problems: Al Capone, Coast Guard warnings, Iowa University athletics, Pennsylvania college football fraud, and Prohibition's effects. The overall theme: modern society's insoluble contradictions and inevitable failures.
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Boy Scout—Hey, mister, that’s no way to carry a knapsack! Al Smith may pronounce it “rad- dio” if he wants to; but, after listen- ing to our neighbor's new set we pro- nounce it a nuisance. Well, anyhow, the dynamic speaker has proved that there is something worse than a phonograph playing a broken record. You Can’t Win Just as we thought—Al Capone leaves Chicago for a year, and the policemen have to petition the gover- nor for their salaries, If you want to “go down to the sca in ships,” don’t pay any attention to Coast Guard warnings. Everything is everybody’ swell now, and ppy; but in regard to that trouble with Iowa University, we can’t help thinking that with all the Jowans in California, no wonder their University had to import some foot- ball talent. Three men from a Pennsylvania college, after a hold-up, trapped the fleeing thieves by their ye Yet some opponents of football ¢ that no benefit is derived from sitting in the cheering section! Oscar of the Waldorf says that the ate banquet with its after-dinner speeches is being killed off, by Prohibition. Well, well, maybe we ought to keep the blamed thing after all! WartcnmaN—My gawd, lady—do you know you're sitting on dynamite! Surix—That’s very nice Tony, but I don't see as it's any of your business. 4 comicbooks.com