Judge, 1930-11-08 · page 7 of 36
Judge — November 8, 1930 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page contains several satirical items from an American humor magazine: **"Scales"** section includes a phone conversation joke about college football, suggesting Notre Dame needs a "gloomy leader" after games—likely referencing the school's football program. **Top cartoon** shows an airplane pilot offering rides, captioned about dropping passengers. The satirical point appears to concern aviation safety or recklessness during early commercial aviation era. **"Give Him Enough Rope and He'll Make Epigrams"** is a longer humorous anecdote about an epigram manufacturer creating proverbs about rope—a play on the expression "give a man enough rope and he'll hang himself." **"Embarrassing Moments"** section includes brief jokes about Australian cars and detective fiction. **Bottom cartoon** depicts a vehicle accident, captioned about a knot not holding—relating to the rope theme above. The overall page emphasizes wordplay and situational humor typical of Judge's satirical style.
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Scales After recent disclosures it is evident the average citizen would hate to have the meat and butter he buys weighed on the scales of justice that are found in the local courts. College Lad (over phone)—Do you have any of that rye left that you got in last week? Bootlegger—No, but we got some stuff jus’ as bad. And colleges which play Notre Dame should have a gloom leader for after the game. Pirot—I’m going your way—can I drop you any place? Give Him Enough Rope and He'll Make Epigrams Ts epigram manufacturer was busy at his trade of twisting proverbs to make better sense or, at least, fun- nier nonsense. He had twisted the one about the worm until it was in knots. “The worm turns, but not until the traffic cop gives the signal,” and, ‘Many a poor worm doesn’t know which way to turn,” and, “What good does it do the worm to turn? He's the same on both sides.” It was the same with enough rope. Give a man enough rope—and what? “He'll imitate Will Rogers.” “He'll open a cigar store.” “He'll skip with it.” But still the cpigram manufacturer kept at it. He would find the perfect onz about the man and the rope. At last, after many hours of toil, he got it. Concise, wise, perfect. “Let's hear it,” someone suggested. “Give a man enough rope and he'll hang himself,” he replied. “Don’t pay any attention And, sure enough, they did. to him, Mrs. Van Pankyton— —R. C. O’Brien he’s drunk!” Embarrassing Moments Sydney Franklin is ran down by an Austin, The Department of Agriculture has issued a booklet telling what the farmer's dollar will buy this year. This year, however, the farmer is more interested in knowing what about 35c will buy. Edgar Wallace says Diamond's ca- . teer is much more surprising than his =~ Rn gait’ own thrillers. In fiction, the detective \. ; si always convicts his man. “I hadda hunch that knot wasn’t gonna hold!” 5 comicbooks.com