Judge, 1932-05-14 · page 4 of 36
Judge — May 14, 1932 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page **Top Cartoon ("Judge"):** Two mermaids criticize a party six miles off Ambrose Light (a navigation marker near New York). The satire targets wealthy socialites' frivolous behavior during economically troubled times—the implicit critique being that the leisure class parties carelessly while others suffer. **Bottom Cartoon ("Definition"):** A traffic cop helps a man described as "Charlie" toward a lamppost, saying he'll "get you out in time to run for alderman." This satirizes corrupt urban politics, suggesting that even police involvement in minor infractions could be manipulated for political advancement—a jab at machine politics and the cozy relationship between law enforcement and city government. Both pieces use humor to critique 1920s American excess and political corruption.
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“Six miles off Ambrose Light and you start criticizing the party!” Definition NFERNAL machine—the one just ahead of you on Sunday after- noon. And the school of hard knocks is a wonderful educator, but we wish our motor hadn't studied there Some of the stock exchange man- ipulators seem to have been just bears in bulls’ clothing And stock operators are now be- ing compared to Al Capone, but at least Al's assets were liquid Gen. Smedley Butler is reported to have lost his voice. But he shouldn't feel too bad; lots of others have become bankrupt too. One big advantage of the five-day: week is that the unemployed lose only five days’ pay, instead of the usual six. And in some of our law courts a man is assumed to be guilty until he is proved influential Well, we hope to goodness this year’s crop of college graduates will turn out to be bond-buyers. JUDGE HE height of illegibility—a doc- tor’s prescription written with a post-office pen in the rumble seat of a second hand car. The trouble with most of the live- wires you meet these days is that they haven't yot any connections. It's too bad that the American people can’t work up the same amount of indignation over the length of the breadlines that they do over the lines at the public golf course. A radio station has asked listen- ers what they would like to have broadcast directly following a scrap- book program. The logical thing would be a couple of aspirin tablets And (here would be a good mar- ket for the used car if it weren't for the used income. Newfoundland,” says an editor “is governed by a mo “Well, we have our House of Representatives.” “Don’t worry, Charlie, we'll get you out in time to run for alderman!” comicbooks.com