Judge, 1931-08-29 · page 4 of 36
Judge — August 29, 1931 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains three separate satirical pieces: 1. **"No English Spoken"**: A poem mocking young men's desire for excitement, referencing the Foreign Legion as an adventure fantasy. 2. **Top cartoon**: Shows a chaotic street scene where a disheveled man confronts a well-dressed gentleman, asking about pickpockets. The satire targets petty crime and urban disorder. 3. **Bottom cartoon titled "Dilemma"**: A house-to-house salesman awkwardly confronts a homeowner at his door. The accompanying text humorously discusses the etiquette problem of whether to slam the door in a salesman's face—satirizing the nuisance of aggressive door-to-door sales, a common 1920s-era complaint. The page's miscellaneous items mock contemporary annoyances: water consumption statistics about Milwaukee, and advice about reckless motorists.
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JUDGE No English Spoken : “T tALL join the foreign legion,” id a local lad o “I'm in need of some exe But I shan’t go fa “T shall join the fore It’s an casy thing to de , | I shall join it at the beaches, } Either there, or at the zoo!” ; | —R.C.O. | Carts Hawks, the aviator, has, | nong other records, established a | very unique one. He hasn't flown I Hid! across the ocean.” Be Mah} | And the only endurance contests ' that have annoyed us lately are those conducted by old ladies in telephone booths. 4 Then there's the fish that made so } } ich noise it scared Calvin Coolidge. ) ; { | Women detectives are being trained i 1 at Scotland Yard. We advise suspects Wi who are questioned concerning their i whereabouts the night before not to j say they were at the office. | | What this country needs is a good | i} | five-cent cigar radio program! Victim—Gawd, aren’t there any pickpockets left? i A | Hh Dilemma | 1 E yeRY now and then we i}| one across a house- | to-house salesman who is i | so rude we don’t know | j whether to slam the door ae” in his face, or to slam his Mh face with the door. ai And goodness knows it 11a was bad enough when a Hl 4 woman couldn't sce a traf. day fic signal with two cyes, | ] without the milliners de- | signing a hat that pulls 1 down over one of them. il ; i } ! A statistical item says t i H that Milwaukee consumes id } 100,000,000 lons of I f water per day. Either that | ror it isn’t Mil- If you really want to get / anywhere, don’t sit in af corner and twiddle your | ! thumbs, Go out on the fF Wah road and do it at passing i “Good Lord, sir! Be careful! You've opened a bridge in East Orange!” motorists, J Te 2 comicbooks.com