Judge, 1933-01 · page 6 of 36
Judge — January 1933 — page 6: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page **"Always Busy" (top cartoon):** A judge satirizes society's misplaced priorities. While people anxiously crowd a window display (likely related to stock market or economic concerns), he notes the irony: window dressing is his profession—literally arranging displays. The commentary critiques how people obsess over superficial economic indicators while ignoring deeper problems. **"Complaint" (text section):** A series of satirical observations about contemporary issues: a janitor's poor work ethic, a man buying a used car for a date, farm product tariffs, the Electoral College, unemployed musicians, advertising concepts, and college athletes selling magazine subscriptions. These appear to be brief, witty social critiques typical of Judge's satirical approach to 1920s-30s American life.
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Judge Always Busy 0 layoffs. I gotta job. I am busy all the time. So bus Ave to keep an emergency crew in wait- ing. Ah, they spring up like mush- rooms. And the window display is most important. Yet, I'm a window dresser by profession. And what do I specialize in? Cordial shops! The fellow who formerly engraved the Lord’s Prayer on the head of a pin, now paints in the fractional price on gasoline signs. Right now we're doing all we can to help the unemployment situation —we're trying to keep our employer from adding us to it. Then there's the man who refused to go coasting with his children be- cause it reminded him so much of the stock market And now the bottom has dropped “Oh om _ » », nh, no sir, not wops—mops! out of our last year’s trouse b p. Complaint He trouble with the janitor at our apartment house is that he doesn’t put any fire into his work. A fellow we know bought a used car last week and took his girl for a ride. They both walked home. As we understand it, the idea of the tariff on farm products is to prevent other countries from selling us something of which we already have twice as much as we need. And perhaps they call it the Elec- toral College because its members, like members of most colleges, enroll and then so to sleep for four years. There are, we read, thousands of unemployed musicians in this coun- try. The worst of it is that the wrong ones seem to be unemployed. And if that tobacco company is looking for ideas to illustrate their nature-in-the-raw advertising cam- paign, we suggest they have an artist paint a picture of the subway during rush hour, Subsidizing college athletes has become a growing evil, says a uni- versity head. Still, we’d rather have them working their way through é , ; . ” school on the football team than try- My wife hasn’t endorsed a cold cream in months! ing to sell us magazine subscriptions. 4 comicbooks.com