Judge — August 1932 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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Judge Thank You So Much EAR Mrs. Smith: I just can’t thank you too much for that lovely week-end at your place. It was too jolly for words, and left me all pepped up and raring to go. You have such interesting people out there—Your husband, for in- I was deeply on at break dinner Saturday in which he said that the world would be off the gold standard within three months, that there wouldn't be a single solvent bank left in the country, that the railroads would ceas operating sixty days, and that he looked war in Arkansas, Oregon, ana, and Northern M. chusetts before the summer was 0} And I thought that Pretty } Drake was so cute—the one who said it looked as though her family would starve to death, that six of her best friends at school were threatening to commit ide, that her fiance thought business wouldn't pick up until 1977, and that a terrific world war would break out in November or December. Quite a happy-go-lucky charming creature, and such fun to play bridge with Mrs. Smith, I could never tell you what fun it was lying around the beach Sunday afternoon and discus- sing the imminent collapse of West- ern civilization. That fellow Hast- ings certainly has some mighty stimulating ideas, all right. Quite in- triguing to think of us all returning to digging roots and worms out of the ground for food, and eating each other occasionally, and his picture of New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia in deserted ruins like ancient Pom- peii is fascinating, to y the least. And to think that he predicts it is only three years distant! As for you, my charming hostess, Correct VIRGINIA family was training a colored girl from the country in her duties the telephone the first da ‘as that, S “’Twarnt nobody “Who ‘It’s a long di it certainly s maid. On y she brought no me swering Mr. Baily, jes a gentlem ice from New York’ and I says ‘Yessir A lot of people who invested a cool million in a busi- ness have gotten nothing but frozen assets out of it And many a housewife listens to the radio when she ought to be tuning in on the electric vacuum cleaner. it’s nice to find that you're your same old delightful If. I guess you're right. e younger generation does seem to be reverting to savagery, and the gang- sters will have us all killed off within the next decade —and art and literature have already collapsed, and things are pretty bad. So sorry I can’t come next week-end, but I have an en- gagement to jump off a bridge. Cheerfully, Parke Cummings He Also Serves THe ‘speakie’-owner now must take A beating for the country’s sake While crafty demagogues promote The egg and rutabaga vote With goldfish-bars and ‘fancy likkers’ Wrested from the city slickers. And another hit-and-run fiend who ought to be kept under lock and key is the guy who slaps your sunburn, Political Note ST now the workingman’s dinner pail is full of promises. And we don’t mind a magazine salesman trying to work h through college half as much as do his trying to work his way into our house. And we suppose you'll hear a lot of voters this year referring to the good old days, when they used to get two dollars apiece for their votes. Well, anyhow, now it costs our creditors three cents to send us those nasty letters. comicbooks.com