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# "Judging the News" - December 1, 1931 This page contains editorial commentary and a main cartoon titled "Here's a man attempts suicide because he's lonely—th' ***'ll fool!!!!" The cartoon satirizes callousness during the Great Depression. A man in a bed (apparently attempting suicide) is surrounded by indifferent or mocking figures—some playing music, others gesturing dismissively. The joke's bitter irony: instead of sympathy for someone driven to despair by loneliness and economic hardship, he receives ridicule. The accompanying text snippets criticize various topics: aging workers facing unemployment, Japanese railway expansion, Prohibition enforcement failures, and Chinese conflict. The satire captures early-1930s cynicism about social problems and public indifference to human suffering during economic crisis.
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Jack Suuttiewortn, Editor Grorce Jean NATHAN Ricnarp J. Warsi Suey S, Lenz, Contributing Editors JUDGING THE NEWS Foreovens have little use for men TT" government's new formula for A SMALL mid-western town has a over forty, says a writer. The h rum calls for twice as much combination ambulance and _ fire trouble is that when a man gets that quin| If they don't stop monkey- engine. They call those things taxis } age he begins to look as important as ing with it they'll get it so it won't in New York. his employer. be fit to drink. Frstsxo is fed up on Prohibition, A Notiten way to explain this period Jo American railway official can un- we hear. They claim it is respon- I of depression, is that perhaps derstand why Japan is willing to. sible for bootlegging, racketeering, people are living within their incomes. fight to get hold of a railroad. corruption, smuggling and surveys by { visiting American Congressmen. Howeses: with two political con- *OOTBALL prospects at Fordham ventions, a disarmament confer- look particularly bright for next A pb another thing to wonder About \ ence and an J war in prospect, year. All that is needed is to de- s how the Chinese people know at least the z business ought velop a couple of vowels for the cen- just where and when one war ends to pick up somewhat in 1932. ter of the line. and another commences. | OS vio a : p eee “Here’s a man attempts suicide because he’s lonely—th’ 2&//*2!! fool!” = = = r. JUDGE, /Votume 101° No. 2614, December 5, 1931/ Entered as a-Class Matter, September 16, 1931, at the Post OMce at Dunellen, N. J, under act of Mareb 3, se 1879. $5.00 a year, ise a SORY. rupianed weehly by judge Publisping Vo., Ine. OMice of publication at Washington and South Aves., Dunelien, N. J. bxecutive and ts. editorial oMee. 18 East 48th Btreet. New York. N.Y. Copyrighted 193171 the U. 8 and Great Hritain: Pred L. Rogan, President, Bidney 8. Lens, Vice President: HA. Obst, Treasurer; Joseph T, Cooney. Seerecary, 18 Fast tsth Street. . New York, N. ¥. Particular attention ts called to the tact in JUDGE is protected under the provistotis of Section 3 of the Copyright Law of the U. B. 3 every article apd pleture appearing comicbooks.com