Judge, 1931-04-18 · page 6 of 36
Judge — April 18, 1931 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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# Explanation for Modern Readers This page contains three distinct satirical pieces from Judge magazine: 1. **Top cartoon**: A police officer stops a speeding car, confusing the driver's identity. The joke references New York City police corruption, suggesting officers couldn't distinguish between criminals and law-abiding citizens. 2. **Middle cartoon**: Depicts a starving man claiming he last ate at the "Realtors' Club." This satirizes the 1930 financial crisis and real estate industry's role in economic collapse—wealthy realtors' clubs contrasted absurdly with widespread hunger. 3. **"Suggestion" section**: Proposes that wealthy tourists and college athletes be made to support struggling communities, likely mocking the economic disparity during Depression-era America. The overall theme critiques economic inequality and institutional corruption of the era.
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Simile Gone as quick as a flask. And when ona New York cop's hip, you don't know whether it’s his gun or his Nearly a thousand banks failed in 1930. Think of the presidents that threw into work. vice And now is the time to get your football tickets. Physicians advise peo- ple to get out in the sun shine. And landlords force them to. And it's certainly funny that these big oil panies always manage to com patch up a trace in’ their price war just about the time the tourist season gets under way. N.Y. Corp—Beg pardon, sir. JUDGE ——_ (AT “Why, you certainly were hungry, my poor man. you eat last?” “Believe it or not, madam Where it was at the Realtors’ Club.” 4 I didn't know you x Squad, sird did History and from Italy he landed in sailing from there, to Amer seme time marchin across th + Where he up and down the Then he sailed up the Hudson as far as Albany, returning down th: river toward the latter part. of the year, ntic spent coast, The following Spring he went to the Pacific Coast, where he stayed for a while until he had explored tl: Rockies and the vast territories of th: t Plain, ¢ and. pre America, when fron F caused him to hurry down there : placate the natives—" “Who's that, Pop—Cort '—Mayor Walker! news Suggestion And it scems queer that ro one has thought of putting a couple of Broad jlumnists on the committee in wating conditions in New York And if tourists must break off tres limbs to decorate their cars with, let's Lope they break off only the ones that have tree-sitters on them, Now if our college football players belonged to an organization lik Equity, they'd be able to drag down a salary during Spring practice also. comicbooks.com