Judge, 1931-08-15 · page 5 of 36
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# "Judging the News" - August 12, 1931 This satirical page mocks contemporary social commentary and economic anxieties during the Great Depression era. **The main cartoon** depicts "The Fellow Who Never Misses a Chance to Make an After-Dinner Speech"—a man standing amid what appears to be a social gathering, gesturing grandiosely while others sit reading. The satire targets verbose after-dinner speakers who monopolize social occasions. **The text vignettes** mock various absurdities: mutists (likely nudists) in fashionable clothing, Southern planters suggesting currency printed on cotton, farmers complaining about bumper crops, musical producers wrapping chorus girls in cellophane, government educators calling children "misers," and families treating the father's checkbook as light summer reading. The overall theme critiques pretension, foolish economic suggestions, and social affectation during Depression-era uncertainty.
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AUG 12 1931 ©cis Jack Snurrtewortu, Editor Georce Jean NATHAN Ricuaro J. WALsH Stoney S. Lenz, Contrifuting Editors JUDGING THE NEWS M aye these nudists we read about Ax» when we asked a farmer how ne Government educators now say are just people who provided for he liked the prospect of another that the small savings-bank trains their clothes this year by a family bumper crop, he told us it wasn’t the children to be misers. Our observa- budget system. wheat he minded so much as the — tion is that it teaches their parents to stupidity. be bank-robbers. Goerirus planters have asked the Government to print the currency A x» some musical comedy producer AY? of all the books the family on paper made from cotton. Well, 4 is going to clean up a fortune by takes away for light summer well, at last they’ve struck on a plan wrapping his chorus girls in cello- reading, the one that gets thumbed the for making moncy out of cotton. phane. most is dad’s check-book. The Fellow Who Never Misses a Chance to Make an After-Dinner Speech. JUDGE, Votume 101. No. 2598. August 15,1931. Entered as Second-Class Matter, October 21, 1881. at the Post Office at New York City, N.Y.. under act of March 3, 1879, Addiuonal entzy at Jamatea, 1. 1., N.Y, rear. 1$e.a copy. Publi Judge Publishing Co., Ine. 18 Fast 4kth Street, New York, N. Y.. and copyrighted 1631. by it ta tbe U8, jent: Bid . Lene, Vice President: H. A ih T. Cooney, Secretary, 18 East 45ib S and 3 ‘Obet, Treasu x New York. N.Y ‘called to the fact that every article and picture appeaftog 10 JUDGE ls protected under the Proviet the U. 8. 3 comicbooks.com