Judge, 1932-04-02 · page 9 of 36
Judge — April 2, 1932 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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# Explanation for Modern Readers This page contains two distinct satirical pieces from Judge magazine: **Top Cartoon:** A customer at a greeting card shop asks for a card "congratulating a guy who just beat the rap"—meaning someone who evaded legal consequences. The joke mocks the normalization of crime and acquittal, suggesting greeting cards exist for every occasion, even criminal ones. **Bottom Section:** "Suggestions to Worms that May Be Caught in Apples" is legal satire. It parodies criminal defense strategies by applying them absurdly to worms found in apples. The advice includes: claiming constitutional rights, manufacturing alibis, producing false witnesses, pleading poverty, and refusing to testify against accomplices. The humor satirizes actual legal defenses used by criminals—suggesting these tactics are so transparent and common they could be applied to literally any situation. The accompanying cartoon shows people playing cards, with the caption "Lead the ace, you idiot!"—unrelated domestic humor typical of Judge's mixed-content format. Together, these pieces mock both the ease of evading justice and the predictability of courtroom defense strategies.
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JUDGE ° REETIN ° 4 CARDS 1b LL Oddasions —_ “7 vant a card congratulating a quy who just beat the rap.” Suggestions to Worms that May Be Caught in Apples D Nr admit anything, Stand upon your constitutional rights. Get ich with a good laywer and build int up a defense that will enable you te beat the rap. Any one of these should get vou otf 1. Insist that you have always sut fered an apple complex. Tell how you couldn't apple with out experic! a queer, irresponsible desire to wl into it. 2. Contend that ipple in self-defense, “ ve that if you did not ] ittack it, the apple would have at- tacked you. get near entered the having good reason to be 3. Deny you were anywhere near the apple, and produce half a dozen witnesses who will swear you were sleeping in an ear of corn at the time of your (trespassing. #. Plead that you were out of work ind merely crawled into the apple for shelter during the night and overslept the next morning. 5. Explain that you were in the apple only in the ¢ city of anu / ficial observer while other worms were So eating it. Refuse to squeal on the others, Crter Jonson “Lead the ace, you idiot!” comicbooks.com