Judge, 1931-03-07 · page 3 of 36
Judge — March 7, 1931 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis This page is **primarily advertising**, not political satire. The dominant content is a full-page advertisement for "True Temper" golf club steel shafts, manufactured by The American Fork & Hoe Company in Cleveland, Ohio. The ad features a scenic photograph of Jasper Park with golfers and includes promotional copy emphasizing the product's quality and durability. The left column contains book reviews under "Judging the Books," discussing Frank Dobie's "Coronado's Children" and Henry Channon's "Paradise City" — literary commentary unrelated to political cartooning. There is **no political cartoon or satire visible** on this page. It represents typical mid-20th century magazine layout combining editorial content with substantial advertising.
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4 SUDGIWG™ BOOKS Fe Donte’s “Coronado’s Chil- dren” is a story-book full of pick- axes striking on rock, flat stones marked with code letters, sun-scorched | plateaus, mirages of gold and inci- dents that) would shame the pulp magazines for wildest melod Tales that have become the of the Southwest country, they retain the essence of reality underneath their roughest and most fantastic exteriors. In total, they are the human history of the Southwest: the eternally same story of the search for gold, which, if not always found, at least has led to the founding of empire. They are in every sense of that horrid word: epic. Strangely all treasure hunts are like; a Wagnerian motif of tragedy running through them. For instance, an stumbles on golden gravel in a to river. He traces the shiny pebble nd discovers enou to make him a Midas. He goes back for equipment and when he returns he cannot find or identify the pls Or this one: A hes d-thirs' zed or finds the silver mines the carly Spaniards sought. Here is wealth beyond dreams they. say. He returns for horses and men, noting the mouth of the rich e: containing the stuff and the fact that it is near a stream. When he returns, a long time ifter, the stream has dried up. the en trance of the cave is hidden under dense growths and another good man will spend the rest of his life looking for a treasure he will never find, To us the up-cropping of hope their soure prospec and the subsequent shattering of it, the | fantastic and often fiendish tragedy that overtakes the hunter is life-with- apital-L itself. But then “fiend- ish" may be too harsh. After all, as one antique Spaniard wrote: “Maybe they didn’t find gold—but think of the | fun they had searching for it.” H eNnry Cuannon’s “Paradise Ci is a first-class novel of soci irony and the caprices Fate can work on the people of a small town if she really puts her mind to it. In the carly nineties Paradise City is a Wis- consin hamlet, oozing along peacefully in the serene nothingness that was small-town life of that day. It had its snobberies, sympathies, and small drama hardened into a social order ind code. Changes come with the years, but it takes the sudden advent of Chicago swells, who choose it as a summer-vacation spot, to kick it out of its rut. Restlessness gets into the blood of the town’s younger genera- tion, They shake off the old traces and spread themselves over the world, each adopting a destiny which leads (Continued on page 27) Thoroughbred E..- proper balance, for durability and for pride in its ownership, a golf club should be built and finished by a master crafts- man. You can assure yourself of these qualities only when the club bears the name of a maker whom you know. But the Life and Action of the club depend upon the Shaft. Dressed as they are today in paint and celluloid, any shaft may be beautified. The "True Temper” shaft, alone, stands out... Its seamless walls of costly alloy steel give you the action that distinguishes the “thoroughbred” in sport. THE AMERICAN FORK & HOE CO. orting Goods Dicision CLEVELAND, OHIO TRUE TEMPER STEEL SHAFTS L The steps distinguish True Temper” Steel Shafts from all others On request we will be pleased to vend you our interesting folder called “True Temper Golf Shafts” whieh ex- plaine why "Tro Temper” Steel Shafts give such remarkable playing results, comicbooks.com