Judge, 1932-02-13 · page 3 of 36
Judge — February 13, 1932 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis This page is primarily **editorial content, not a political cartoon**. The left column contains "Judging the Books," a satirical book review section critiquing recent Russian-themed publications. The author mocks publishers' rush to capitalize on anti-Soviet sentiment by releasing numerous books about Russia, noting many are contradictory, poorly researched, and written by unqualified authors. The right side advertises **the SS France**, a luxury ocean liner in the West Indies Service. This appears to be a paid advertisement rather than satirical content. The "Judging the Books" section represents Judge magazine's typical approach: using humor to mock American commercial culture's opportunistic trends, here the publishing industry's exploitation of Cold War anxieties about Russia.
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JUDGING BOOKS st spring, if you were couldn't: help but Red Menace. danger of suddenly wa This consisted not so » Brother, it is ti to go to the Factory” red to death by books publiwlice “risbied! to heaven knows how ests to supply the pape thousands of presses with the strain of printing; and pouring reservoirs of water over Hamilton z ¥ ing "Our Pandas ntal if depressed » had quieted down » Russians and think them the Our forests nd Ham Fish is just r Washington. publishers—feeling their prouder me issuing light t Two Virgins Along Broadw: opportunist ad rushed off to Russis - impressions (zotten from w ¥ lunch rooms vround begging publics ts this year’s literary wow, is not so v us, this being a Special Num- ve list from this Big Red ve, the starred ones are best: Communism” *Florinsky’s ee g Went to Rossi *Chamberlin’s “Soviet Russia”; ‘New Russian Primer”; *White’s “These Russians”; *Count’s “Chal lenge to America”; and Skaratina’s “A World Can Ind. From a close pe sal of these pio neer times, you have garnered or will warner such somewhat contradictory facts about what's what with the Ga- zotskis, Soviet Russ you will learn, has: A dull, ignorant mass. A highly educated people. arvation rations. Excellent food. ullen workers under forced An alert, enthusiastic working. ¢ P nts groaning under the of that Communist dictator. : peasants, enthusiastic over the new labor saving machines. A community with men flitting from one wom: sy div another throu and happy ige of equals with a lower divorce than in the United States. A five-year ] by incompetence fi r cee, 1 doomed to failure nd bureaucracy, A ur plan completed in four years. A govermnent riding te MN. The | only sti ple govermment on ¢ Men shot for their political opin- ns or sent to revolting prison camps the zon north. Prisoners in are Russians trying to get out of the country to escape the terrible condi- tions. "Soldiers patrolling the borders of Poland and Roum from fleeing to. Russia. Hell. Utopia. to keep men kom which you may Russia remains as mysterious ay ever. For most of the writers who went to Russia were determined be forchand as to what each would sec and they produced exactly the same sort of book they would have, had they stayed at home and written it. Don't be discouraged, however. These books 4 quite enlightening within their limits, and if somewha contradictory and prejudiced, at least will give you something to talk about should you run into a Parlor Red. History, after all, writes itself. And formal history books are best written after the facts are in and certain fumes and heats have died down. Undoubtedly books on Russia will improve, and with such advancement will come impartiality. The Red ht to fift in the minds of the b holder, After all, we ought to r member that we too, were once young, snippety and somewhat bloody nation, —Frovor Suanrorr. 1 | 18 DAYS of Sunlit PARADISE on the best- beloved liner West Indies Service FRANCE HILE the February 20 news- papers wail through the sleet to storm-bound scudding down the Gulf Stream in “the ship everyone loves,” the smouldering cone of Mt. Pel and anchoring in Fort de France, the Empress Josephine’s own home town. Next day you visit Port of Spain in Trinidad, where cardinal birds sing, and swizzle-sticks rotate. Then La yra in Venezuela—then Curacao : it does not come from)—then Colon and the Grandest Canal—then Kingston, Jamaica. Twelve days from New York you cap the climax by two days in Ha- yana; 18 days from Pier ¢7 you're and you've broken win- ter’s back for very little more than a day—on one of the swiftest, smartest, most luxurious ships of the The famous Fraice b take you over more by than other West Indian 1 France is a thrifty curative poultice for what ails us all—as you'll learn all the French Line or your pet among its authorized the moment you There are three 11-day cruises sched~ uled for the France, with stops at Kingston and Hatana, far. 26.and Apr.ge