Judge, 1932-05-28 · page 9 of 36
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# Explanation for Modern Readers **"The Banishing Americans"** satirizes a real 1924 news story: Taos Pueblo Indians attempting to expel 250 artists and writers living in their community. The sketch mocks both the Indians' complaint and the bohemian residents. Taos was an artist colony attracting literary figures like Witter Bynner and D.H. Lawrence. The cartoon presents Native American chiefs in exaggerated dialect complaining that white artists produce nothing useful—no corn, maize, or baskets, only paintings and verse. When told famous writer Theodore Dreiser is arriving, they declare war. The satire cuts both ways: it ridicules the stereotyped "primitive" resistance while also gently mocking the self-absorbed artists as parasitic outsiders. The humor relies on portraying the Pueblo's actual economic grievances as petty cultural snobbery. The accompanying "Spring Cleaning" section contains separate political commentary on Communism, the Depression, and racial discrimination in Texas voting.
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JUDG The Banishing Americans “Taos Indians fail to oust 250 artists and writers from pueblo.” News item. How! JOW N-THE-BACK-OF- ' so yet? Cier S: sface still here. Paintum canvas. Ugh! Cuter R: Ugh! White man clutter up place. No good. Him no raise corn. No pound maize. No weave baskets. Just = paintum picture, e-um verse, all day. . . White Chief Witter Bynner still here? Curr S: Um. Cuter R: U. Mi h! White Squaw y Austin, too? Cuter S: Um. cu R: Maybe white man like to buy pueblo? Sell dirt cheap. No yood now. Red man go to homa; dig oil; get wampum. Curr S: And how! CHIE TAL - WATER - UNDER - Ca Foot: (bursting into pow-wow): Ugh! Ugh! Ugh! IEF R: Ugh what? Cier C: White Chief Dreiser on way! Cuer S (galvanized into action Red man go on warpath! t str: Go yettum tomahawk—beat drums! Ip-um plenty! — (They begin to nce with stamping feet as the curtain falls). —NORMAN R. JAFFRAY. “Fill out this credit reference and come back tomorrow night.” ae ? P Cleaning Hk Communists want the people of this country to work together like a huge machine, we are told. Well, we ought to be able to do that well enough, with all the politicians we've yot who are willing to keep us cleaned and oiled. be The appropriation for National Park maintenance has been reduced. We suppose that means they'll shut off some of the yeysers. An Indiana woman whose husband is out of a job has just given birth to her second set of triplets. The j father is doing as well as can be expected. Times are so tough some of the presidential candi- lates are reported to be just throwing their last season's straw hats into the ring. The courts have decided that Negroes may vote in Texas Democratic primari It is also constitutional . — for them to tickle the heels of a mule. “Have you been throwing any more big orgies? comicbooks.com