Judge, 1932-05-28 · page 5 of 36
Judge — May 28, 1932 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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# Explanation for Modern Readers This 1932 *Judge* magazine page satirizes Depression-era economic anxieties through brief editorial commentary paired with a cartoon. The text snippets mock various social impacts: farmers losing livelihoods, New York speakeasies (illegal bars during Prohibition) forced to dilute whiskey, and Brooklyn baseball fans economizing by reusing bottles with strings. The main cartoon depicts children playing outside a house while a mother tends to them, with the caption: "Whatever became of that boy of ours with those pretty blue eyes, Ma?" This likely comments on **child welfare during the Depression**—suggesting families were struggling so severely that children's health and well-being (the "pretty blue eyes") were deteriorating from poverty and malnutrition. The satire critiques both economic hardship and parents' helplessness during this crisis.
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MAY 24 1932 ©cie 151891 JUDGE ] Jack Suurrewori, Lditer Grorce Jeas Nati Riciiaro J. Warsit, — SipNev S. Lez, Contributing Editors JUDGING THE NEWS V HEN we asked a farmer how HEN there was the Kentucky coal HE clipper ship has become ob- things were with him, he said miner who went away for a va- solete, and we suppose the next they were so bad that he had to lay cation, and, when he returned, thing to go will be the old fashioned off even his s couldn't vet back into the state. full rigged ma is so poor for New York M* it’s beside the point, but Se. men think they have a y owners that their 4 we wonder: if beer ever does eriority complex, when as had to take another cut come back, what will be done with — ter of fact they’re just inferior. all the stuff on hand? Bu whisky Freese we now hear, is the Gores used to be out on the watchwi mong Brooklyn base- HE trouble is that when prosper- course before dawn, to get an ball fans. Some are even said to be ity does come back, the people carly st When you see them on tossing out pop bottles with strings next door will yet a radio and the the course that early these days, tied to them. people upstairs will give parties. they are looking for yolf balls. Uh ilo. “Whatever became of that boy of ourn with thuh pretty blue eyes, Ma?” 1a) April 1 2, Aghte rate $5.00'8 year. Pred Le ; Prank’ € comicbooks.com