Judge, 1931-08-01 · page 7 of 36
Judge — August 1, 1931 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page contains three separate humor pieces: 1. **"The Great Open Spaces"** - A brief joke about running out of gas on a Sunday drive in the countryside. 2. **"Instalment Song"** - A poem by N.S. mocking the poor condition of cars purchased on installment plans, with worn motors, cracked bodies, and unreliable chassis. This satirizes both automobile quality and the economic practice of installment buying, likely reflecting Depression-era concerns about consumer debt. 3. **Two cartoons**: The "Robot Builder" shows mechanical chaos; the "Greens-Keeper" depicts golfers apparently reducing the course's grass to bare ground—likely satirizing either over-maintenance or careless play. The content reflects early-to-mid 20th-century concerns: automobile reliability, installment purchasing, and leisure activities.
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The Great Open Spaces H Ave you ever felt the desire to g out into the peaceful country- side, far from the city pavements, far from the garages and gas stations and everythi Well, it's casy. Just forget to fill up your tank next Sun day and that’s where youll be when you runout of gas! Simile As dizzy as a Scot after dropping a dime ina revolving door. Rubber flooring is being advertis for nurseries. For bouncing bab Advance information indicates that there will be a bigger wheat surplus this year than there was last year, It's getting so that about the only thing that will fix the wheat situation up is to pass a law against using it. Instalment Song iG the motor knocks and the body creaks And the paint is chipped, uncared for: If the cushions bulue and the chassis squeaks And the blowouts are prepared for— If the car is shabby, decrepit, old, And you wonder what it was made for; If its many years are so easily told— Why, the chances are it is paid for! —N. S, JUDGE Stranger Than Fiction Jules Verne’s imagination was great enough to visualize as the t submarine such Nautilus, but not even he could ne one being towed around by a battleship fleet. It’s funny, but a woman who can tat ten ces can't see a pair of garage doors all. spot a blond hair on your e« —/ ——_= © Ls ~= <> <> a Add Pitiful Figures_ The fellow who wrote the summer resort literature for Backwash Cove Inn misses the last train and has to spend the week-end there. And we simply had to give our sub- ne salesman who nd said he was his way through the depres- scription to a ma » right out with it work sion, Greens-Keeren—Say, what are you doing there! “Us? We're reducing.” 5 comicbooks.com