Judge, 1931-12-12 · page 6 of 36
Judge — December 12, 1931 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page **Top Cartoon ("Missionaries"):** Shows figures in a cauldron over fire. The caption reads "We're sorry old man—but it's the depression." This is satirizing the Great Depression era (1930s based on context clues), suggesting that economic hardship justifies extreme measures—here, darkly joking about missionary cannibalism. The satire targets how the Depression affected even supposedly civilized society. **Bottom Cartoon:** A man at a door labeled "MAIL" appears caught using a Phi Beta Key (academic honor society key). The caption "I knew I should a-taken that Phi Beta key often that guy!" suggests he's a mail carrier or postal worker stealing from mail using the academic key—satirizing white-collar crime or postal service corruption during economically desperate times. The page combines social commentary on Depression-era desperation.
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News from the Colleges I | anvarp and C, C. N.Y. will hi their first debate in the history of the two institutions next month, The interpreter has not yet been se- lected. Gordon Gynne, son of the Univer- sity bootlegger, was expelled from the University of Michigan yesterday for cutting classes. The Yale Record is putting out a special issue of the magazine in De cember. It is planned to be the only issue not containing a parody of Ogden Nash. M. R. Goldsmith, Jr., class of 1905 at the International Correspondence Schools, received his degree twenty- six years late at the Dead Letter Office the other day. The judgment of the class of 1930 in voting P. K. Zach tl likely to succeed was vindicated when it became known that h finally got a job last week, the first one in his class to do so, Diplomas at Ohio State will be made out of parchment. The change has been made to avoid the use of sheep dip in the old sheep skins. man most It is rumored that Harvard will soon have a new president. President Lowell, it is said, has incurred the dis- pleasure of alumni by making dispar- aging remarks about Barry Wood's quarterbacking. A. Ss. “T knew I should a-taken that Phi Beta key offen that gu. '¥ of guy JUDGE Misstonantrs ang f C14 We're sorry old man—but it’s th’ depression, Idea Man The first aviator to loop the loop probably got the idea from stepping on a loose roller skate in a dark hall. You recall the controversy over the naming of the new Hudson river There were any number of suggestions, And finally they named it after George Washington. Still, it would have been more appropriate to have named it the Lincoln Bridge. You know, the Lincoln Bridge, lincoln New York with New Jersey. Steamship companies are starting new advertising campaigns to stimu- late winter travel to Europe. Another Seabury investigation would help, too. And we wonder what bus line that esteemed lex upher, Noah Web- ster, used. He s a ead is “a low- bred, presuming person; a mean, vul- gar fellow; a conductor of an omni- bus.” comicbooks.com