Judge, 1930-09-20 · page 13 of 36
Judge — September 20, 1930 — page 13: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page contains several satirical pieces typical of Judge magazine's humor: **"Judge" cartoon (top left):** A street vendor complains his son now wants a horse instead of accepting "Park Avenue notions"—satirizing wealthy pretension and children's escalating material demands. **"Sunday at the Golden Gate":** A humorous afterlife scene where recently deceased souls encounter traffic violations and mishaps at heaven's gates. The joke relies on the irony that even in the afterlife, bureaucratic complications (cops, traffic accidents) persist. The references to "Fuller brush man" and "vacuum-cleaner salesman" are period-specific door-to-door sales jobs. **"Or Some Other Place":** A series of brief quips mocking Prohibition-era agents, football injuries, and hitchhiking—contemporary social commentary wrapped in wordplay. The poetry section "Trees" and the lower cartoon about "rum runners" reference Prohibition enforcement, a major 1920s-30s concern. Overall, this reflects Judge's satirical approach to modern urban life, consumer culture, and legal/social absurdities of the era.
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Trees And Those Who Sit in Them I Tink a kid should never be Permitted to sit ina tree. y up there for days and days Pup this endurance ers It’s all fool stuff, there is no doubt; And God knows what it's all about. Another, or rather the only, fight we'd like to sce is the one that will oc- cur when a Fuller brush man vacuum-c nda ner salesman reach the same door together. One columnist lifting his stuff. Next thing you k » there'll be war among the New York gagsters. “My son's got Park Avenue notions. Now he wants a horse!” Sunday at the Golden Gate I" was late Sunday arrivals were t outside the Golden Gate. The new iting their chance to yet in. Some were getting ac “How did you get hi “A tack in the change the tire But how did you “Well,” repl started cha could get here I “Here voice, and, sure enough, it was the cop. “You didn’t see it, but I hit a tree right after [ passed your wreck. However, you needn't worry now, be- cause [didn’t bring my summons book with 1 Just then outside the Golden Gate th Harsh words, which seemed out of place in such a place, were heard. Two recently made angels had collided while flying in opposite directions. One pair of rather elderly tourists felt rather lost in the gathering outside the Pearly Gates. Their chauffeur didn't arrive with them, and it was the first time they had ever zone any place without him, A late arrival caused a unong those gathered. His interesting and unique and_ the looked upon him with wonder, didn’t think it ever happened any was the general comment. He one asked another, was the response. “I got out to "t pull off the road far enough. “I was speeding and a cop sing me. 1 stepped on it, because T thought I away from him, and heh, heh, I did, because— I am, too,” said a was a commotion, “Better start firing, Charlie. Might be some rum runners around in this fog!” died of natural causes! —R. C. OBrien Or Some Other Place The trouble with playing football is that you're apt to get athlete’s foot on the neck. And, speaking of that school for pro- hibition agents in Washington, the grad- bly get a B.S. degre Sniffin Bachelor 0 Thumbs play a prominent part in n have swept. the ly. There's Tom Thumb f and there's hitchhiking. “Don’t go near it, Joe; it must be a trap!” WW uses another of | comicbooks.com