Judge, 1930-04-12 · page 12 of 36
Judge — April 12, 1930 — page 12: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine: "Topical Revue" This page satirizes contemporary absurdities through four cartoons: 1. **Washington taxi bill**: A congresswoman proposes prohibiting hand-holding in taxis, claiming it reduces immorality and poverty—mocking legislative overreach and naive social engineering. 2. **Egyptian bureaucrat**: An official declares pyramids should stop being built due to traffic concerns, humorously suggesting modern bureaucratic thinking applied to ancient monuments. 3. **Simple cartooning template**: A New York cartoonist's invention showing interchangeable symbols (corruption, red tape, common people, "the facts") lampoons mass-produced editorial cartooning and formulaic satire. 4. **London gas debate**: British diplomats debate chemical weapons for a future war they claim is "unthinkable"—sharp irony about post-WWI disarmament conferences that simultaneously planned for the next conflict. The page overall mocks political hypocrisy, bureaucratic absurdity, and the arms race mentality of the interwar period.
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JUDGE Topical Revue 5000 Yeats Ago Today Cairo, Egypt-—Hu-bert Rho-mer, Upper Nile Building Commissioner, sees end of skyscraper era, declaring more pyramids would cause traffic congestion and menace health. Washington, D. C.—Congresswoman Preentsch, in F : Retired support of her bill prohibiting holding hands in taxis, : p produces chart showing decline in immorality, disease Admirals Dep't and poverty resultant therefrom. Corruption in High Places London, England.—The merits of phos- gene and chlorine gas for use in the next war (ihich, the delegates are agreed, is unthink- able) are being debated. New York, N. ¥.—Cartooning made easy for all by simple invention of local cartoonist. 10 comicbooks.com