Judge, 1930-11-22 · page 12 of 36
Judge — November 22, 1930 — page 12: what you’re looking at
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# Explanation for Modern Readers This Judge magazine page presents absurdist satire mocking workplace safety regulations—likely responding to early 20th-century "Safety First" industrial campaigns. Each cartoon proposes ridiculous "safety devices" to solve genuine hazards: 1. **"Safeguarding Our Tailors"**: Tailors swallowing pins while working inspired the American Tailors' Association to equip workers with trained Burmese "bissarts" (likely fictional animals) to retrieve swallowed pins—a nonsensical solution to a real occupational danger. 2. **"Protecting Our Organists"**: Organ players who stamp on pedals risk leg injuries, so the cartoon suggests "Ocelot Releases"—mechanical ocelots mounted on dashboards to untangle shoelaces. 3. **"Lessening the Hazards of Shoot-the-Chutes"**: Playground slide inspectors get splinters, solved by sending Sumatran honey bears down first, since bears supposedly don't mind splinters. The satire mocks both the era's earnest safety obsession and the inadequacy of proposed solutions, using Dr. Seuss-style drawings to heighten the absurdity.
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JUDGE Some Common-Sense Safety-First Devices —— ( \ DEPT, oF PLAYGROUNDS | NSPECTOR 4 @ow eN BOARD 2 Safeguarding Our Tailors Statistics show that every year over 3,000 tailors are rushed to the hospital, suffering « pins. Consequently the American Tailors’ Ass'n has or dered all suit fitters to equip themselves with trained Bur- mese bissarts. Five pins in the mouth are safe enough; but put in a sixth, and your bissart leans over and snatches it out. seatiaie Lessening the Hazards of Shoot-the-Chutes Protecting Our Organists Inspecting Though few realize it, organ playing is ex- A little-appreciated profession is that of Slippery-Slide tremely ; In stamping around on Inspector on our playgrounds. These men, who protect © forever our kiddies by testing their slides, get little thanks, poor on the laces, he often pay and lots of splinters in the seats of their pants. To ks a leg. Wise organists, therefore, now combat the splinter menace, progressive cities now allow “Ocelot Releases” among the gadgets them to be preceded down the slide by Sumatran honey on their dashboards. When laces get in a bears. (Sumatra being full of splinters, the bears pick snarl, out pops the ocelot to gnaw them loose. them up and don’t mind it a bit.) 10 comicbooks.com