Judge, 1931-11-28 · page 11 of 36
Judge — November 28, 1931 — page 11: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine Satire Analysis This page satirizes post-WWI economic proposals through absurdist humor. **"Lump Those Debts"** mocks a real-world scheme (the "International No-Got Corporation") proposing to consolidate allied nations' war debts into a single entity. The satire emphasizes the plan's logical absurdity: rather than solving debt, it merely concentrates all obligations into one massive "home-owned debtor organization." The phrase "from hell to breakfast" humorously describes debt's scattered state. The cartoon showing a judge tells a joke about Prohibition (1920-1933): a defendant "even drank before Prohibition," implying this predates the law and is somehow worse than post-Prohibition drinking. **The "W" poem** celebrates baseball and gin-drinking—a knowing wink at Prohibition's unpopularity. **The bottom cartoon** depicts a husband receiving a telegram about a call to Seattle, humorously suggesting marital distance or infidelity during the telephone era. The overall tone reflects post-WWI economic anxiety and satirizes the era's futile debt-restructuring proposals while mocking Prohibition through casual alcohol references.
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od his ast of for ds “I can’t do nothing with him, your Honor—why, he even drank before Prohibition!” LUMP THOSE DEBTS! By Cuer Siaren President International No-Got Corporation Fev of the suggested plans for remodelling the world's run-down economic machine appear as feasible as that announced by the International No-Got Corporation (UnInc.) at 3 p. m, today (Central Eastern Standing- Sitting Daylight Savings Time). This corporation has agreed to abitrarily assume all the debts of the allied nations. It will also assume all the debts of its individual members. Simultaneously, the cor- poration will issue to its members a series of Ist Prior Lien Loan Tax-Exempt Rust-Proof 4-Ply Ownership Bonds, enabling them to share alike in the total obligation, and thus creating the largest single, home-owned debtor organ- ization in the world. If any comprehensive readjustment and regulatory pro- gram for economic stabilization has come out of the present crisis, this is it. Patently, the plan will cause a hitherto unprecedented concen of general indebtedness. As one ing financier phrases With the proposed No-Got units system of debt focalization the debts, as I see it, instead of being scattered, heretofore, from hell to breakfast, not, as I sce it, be scattered, as heretofore, from hell to breakfast.” Yet, while this is an outstanding feature of the plan, a careful study reveals that its greatest efficiency will rise from the proposed method of handling creditors. All creditors will be regarded, un- der the plan, sub-normal, habit- forming and damned obnoxious, and will be treated as a mob, without pri- ority rights, first come first served. tion of either a legitimate imate claim each will be (Continued on page 25) C A halfback’s off—he’s clear—a score! We sit and take it and listen for more, Thrilling to throa “We” Or all the things that we take in, The Big Game's the best of all. The nippy air, the tang of gin, The boom of boot on ball. » college cheers Booing the other side, diving the umpire raucous jeers, Taking him for a ride. We bleed, we die, and yet— -tube set. —Stancey Jones Me and my “Gosh—I've been wanting to call up Lily in Seattle, since I got to New York.” Huspanp (drowsily )—Yours of the 22: nd received and contents noted— comicbooks.com