Judge, 1931-03-21 · page 10 of 36
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# Analysis: Judge Magazine Page This page contains three separate satirical pieces about American consumer culture and legal corruption circa the 1920s-1930s. **"High Signs"** mocks outdoor advertising excess. A candy company memo proposes plastering "Dandy Handy Candy Bars" everywhere—on buildings, streets, even in pockets. The irony: a follow-up memo notes a bar left in someone's pocket melted, defeating the purpose. The satire targets aggressive marketing's obliviousness to practical reality. **"Justice: In the Near Future"** depicts systemic legal corruption. A court case collapses because everyone involved is compromised: the defendant's lawyer faces charges elsewhere, the prosecutor is on trial for bribery, the arresting officer refuses testimony to avoid self-incrimination, the defendant is ill, and the judge vanishes. The joke critiques a justice system where corruption has become so endemic that cases become impossible to prosecute—a commentary on Prohibition-era institutional decay. Both cartoons satirize American institutions' dysfunction through exaggeration and dark humor.
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HIGH SIGNS By Carroll Carroll Danvy Hanpy Canny Bars, Inc. Inter-Office Memo From: J. A. Tishweiler, Pres. To: Executive Board. Re: Outdoor Advertising Mr. Sirton of the News-Sense Outdoor Advertising Company just happened to drop in yesterday. He said many fine things about Dandy Handy Candy Bars, and 1 now feel that they have outgrown the scope of mere news paper and mags advertising. I have been feeling this way a long time. As Mr. Sifton so aptly phrased it, “Th - best way to sell Dandy Handy Candy Bars is to shout it danlayman ; ; ; ; from the housetops.” [am inclined to agree with him. ‘Th: “T'll have to have a double-barrel. I have two man in the street is the man who eats Dandy Handy Candy daughters.” Bars, and the man in the street is the man who reads outdoor signs. Therefore, as Mr. Sifton put it, we should use outdoor signs, so the man who reads may eat. He has shown me several locations where he cor place Dandy Handy Candy Bar siz The only problem now is, shall they tx painted, posted, illuminated or electric? I wish you gentlemen would mull over this matter, and after careful considera tion advise me of your findings. Rk member, we must put 2 Dandy Handy Candy Bar in every poe J. A. Tishweiler. Daxpy Haxpy Caxpy Bans, Ive. Inter-Office. Memo From: Orville Munix, See’y. A. Tishweiler, Pres. sor say that I hold with that slo gan about putting a Dandy Handy Candy Bar in every pocket. Dandy wom. | Handy Candy Bars should be caten, WYER not merely carried around. I know, I aS carried one around for a few days last summer, and it melted. You had better “An’ out’a all them Lenz bridge prizes I had tot make a note of this and take it up with JUSTICE In the Near Future “Wier was the outcome of the People versus Whoosis case?” “Well, the defendant's lawyer was indicted in an- other case furnished bail was prison for ch than the prosecutor is on trial in other court for accepting a bribe, the arresting officer has refused to testify on the ground that he'll incrimi himself, the defendant is ill and the judge has disap- peared.” —R.C.0. “We don’t have Springs like we used to have!” 8 comicbooks.com