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# "Judging the News" - January 10, 1931 This satirical column comments on contemporary events through brief jabs: **Einstein's "plan to end war"** is mocked as too complicated for ordinary people to grasp. **The Five-Year Plan** (likely referring to Soviet economic policy) is criticized as impractical for American college tuition. **American film dialogue** is ridiculed as incomprehensible—audiences don't understand actors' speech patterns. **Herbert Hoover's endorsement** for a second term is sarcastically praised, with the jab that his "unique accomplishment" was insulting the Senate. **The main cartoon** shows a writer struggling to finish his novel while juggling domestic chaos (children, pets, interruptions). The joke: his hero is proposing marriage, but the writer's wife says "tell her to say no!"—implying married life is miserable, so the character should avoid it. The overall tone reflects Depression-era cynicism about politics and American life.
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JAN -'7 193 Jack SnurrieworTH, Editor INSTEIN announces that he has a plan to end war. We hope it is something that more than 12. people can understand, A’? one big trouble with the Five- Year Plan is that our son is now trying to go through college on it. cvroreaN movie fans complain that ~ the n't understand what the actors in American-made talkies. They don’t know how lucky they are. Orie 19930 5 we Georce Jean NATHAN “Well, how “ine, the hero is just proposing marriage to the girl.” “Well, tell her to say no!” Ricnarp J. Watsit D'" the holiday activities of the rum ficet it looked as if they were trying to wring out the old year and wring out the new year, too. ne W. C. T. U. has endorsed Hoover for a second term. Is there no end to this poor guy’s tough breaks? Bt with all his failings, Herbert Hoover has one unique accom- plishment to his credit—he has insult- ed the Senate. your new: novel coming along?” Stoney S$. Lenz, Contributing Editors JUDGING THE NEWS AWansaw woman is secking a dix vorce on the grounds that her husband has eleven sweethearts. She wants to sever relations with the mag- netic Pole. N the future if you want to scare a cotton or wh farmer to death just threaten to stabilize his prices. A oTueR thing that will kill foot- ** ball, that Bill Roper didn’t men- tion, is to play it the way Princeton did last fall. 1879. Additional entry at Jamaica, 1. And copyrighted 1931, by it 10 the U Becretary, 18 East 48th Street, New York. N.Y u 4 JUDGE, Votume 100. No. 2567, January 10, 1931. Pate 1 1X. ¥. $5.00 8! and Great . Particular attentiot a year, 108 copy. fain: Fred 1 Hogan. President: sidney & red as Second-Class Matter, October 21, 1881. at the Post Office at New York City, N.Y., under act of March 3, Published weekly by Judge Publishing Co, Ine. 18 bast 4) : Lens. Vice President: Vernai W.. Bates. Ty {e"called to the fact that every article and picture appeartog 10 JUDG Provisions of Section 3 of the Copyright Law of the U. 8 ireet, New York. N.Y.. ‘Joseph T. Cooney, Drotected under the