Judge, 1931-11-21 · page 11 of 36
Judge — November 21, 1931 — page 11: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page satirizes President Herbert Hoover's administrative style applied to household management. The article's conceit compares running a home to running government "on a smaller scale." **The satire:** The head of household creates a commission (mimicking Hoover's preference for committees and commissions) to investigate neighborhood noise. After exhaustive inquiry, they produce a detailed report listing grievances—loud parties, radios, children, ashmen, doorbells, cats, cars, milkmen. The punchline: "That is as far as it gets"—the report goes nowhere, merely submitted to newspapers as signed letters from "Indignant Taxpayer." **The political point:** This mocks Hoover's ineffectual approach to governance through commissions that investigate and recommend but lack enforcement power. The implication is that his administration produces endless reports while problems remain unsolved. **The cartoons** (illustrating the concept) show a man being directed to an employment agency, and another fleeing with a muzzle he's changed his mind about buying—visual jokes about solving domestic problems.
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JUDGE The Hoover Influence On the Home | ] Tur average citizen, emulating Herbie, copes with his daily problems much in the same manner as the Presi- dent conducts the business of government, After all, run- ] ning a home and running a govermment are not so dif- | ferent, Just on a smaller seale, that's all. In the morning the householder arises and there is a conference at the breakfast table, anent conditions in the | apartment house. It appears that the neighborhood is too i noisy. The head of the family thereupon appoints a commission, consisting of his brother-in-law, a friend from Kansas who is visiting them for a few days, the iceman and the apartment house superintendent. They are to investigate and report. After exhaustive inquiry on the subject they find that the family upstairs throws too many midnight parties, there are too many active radios, children playing in the streets exercise their lungs more than their limbs, the ashman is not a good ball him, ant ds and wives, too many player and muffs too many asheans thrown back : there is too much doorbell rin ng, too many unp controversies between husba musical cats in the rear courtyard, too many cars and trucks with screeching brakes and loud horns, and milk- men come around too carly in the morning. ‘This report is submitted, with recommendations that there be less of this sort of thing. The report is then sent to the news- papers in the form of letters signed Inc That is as far as it gets, MA “T've changed my mind—W'll take that muzzle!” 9 comicbooks.com