Judge, 1930-08-16 · page 8 of 36
Judge — August 16, 1930 — page 8: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page **Top Cartoon ("Judge"):** A man in formal attire stands before what appears to be a judge's bench or elevated platform, surrounded by children playing with sand and toys. The caption reads: "Why the elephantine shore?" / "I want to collect enough sand to build the kids a playground this winter." This satirizes wealthy individuals' extravagant or absurd justifications for their actions—here, a man claims he's removing sand from a beach under the pretext of building a children's playground, a transparently self-serving excuse dressed up in philanthropic language. **Bottom Cartoon:** A man shows product samples (marked "EUREKA BRUSH CO.") to another man. Caption: "You can have the job as sample salesman." This depicts straightforward job-seeking humor about commission-based sample sales work.
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JUDGE “Why the elephantine shoes?” “T want to collect enough sand to build the kids a playground this winter.” The Oldest Fib in America By Jack Cluett , EUREKA Fe n solemn, elderly doctors, wearing the conventional BRUSH stethoscopes of the medical profession, sat round a co mahogany table in the conference room of the Research In the center of the table stood Zaro Agha, ur-old Turk. He drank a glass of milk, knelt A — ick out your tongue and third set of shoes stand that at the advanc +4 156 he’s growing another pair.” E Dr. Arbuthnot examined the shocs and said: “Angina + pectoris is setting in near the instep and the tongue is becoming coated.” “Maybe it nceds some castor oil and a new pair of suggested Dr. Lum. i “Your grandfather will be sore at your being down at ' the heels this way,” Dr. Wormle id. Then he added: “Where is your grandfather, Mr. Agh: Mr. Agha answered the doctor in old Turkish: “Grandpa is quite an old man. He's renting himself out to the W. C. T. U.’s as an example. He hasn't drink since the period. Right now he’s carrying cannon through Khuyber Pass at a nickel a gun and tips.” “How old is he?” asked Dr. Lum, painting the tongue “You can have the job as sample salesman.” of a shoe with nitrate of silver. comicbooks.com