Judge, 1933-03 · page 5 of 40
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# Analysis This is the March 6, 1933 issue of Judge magazine. The page features "Judging the News," a satirical commentary section on current events. The main cartoon depicts a long line of identical mechanical figures (appearing to be workers or citizens) operating like machines under a large industrial structure, with one figure at a podium commanding "Oh, Mike, tap another keg o' oil!" This appears to satirize **mechanized labor or bureaucratic control** during the Great Depression era. The text snippets above mock various contemporary proposals and problems: financial crisis, the "Buy American" movement, technological unemployment, and political incompetence. The cartoon suggests that people are being treated as interchangeable machine parts rather than individuals—a commentary on industrialization's dehumanizing effects and perhaps the period's economic desperation.
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©cie 184394 Jack Suorreworrn, Editor Grorce Jean Narnas Richaro J. Warsi Stpsey S. Lenz, Contributing Editors JUDGING We knew darn well that the min- ute Columbia University got a ood football team it would be telling us how to run the country. AND may we Scott Emulsion ecu NOCRA CY, according to its spokesmen, will do away with money. It has this in common with capitalism, A’ Simple Circe thinks she has a xreat invention. She wants to make rm clocks without bells— for people who aren't working. suggest calling Mr. Technocracy “Scott's THE Tie trouble with our finances is * that the banks can take mone: out of circulation faster than the yovernment put it in. Ax this Buy American movement would be all right if somebody vould only start it abroad. O« writer says that the techno- crats admit they have no solution for the problems of the present eco- nomic crisis. In which case, we ought to elect them to Congress. NEWS E ERE’S deflation in a nut-shell: in- stead not having the money we haven't got now, we wouldn't have twice as much and it would be worth only one-third of what we haven't sot. ND barter is giving somebody a 42% pig and a couple of ducks they don’t want in exchange for an over- coat that doesn't fit for the benefit of the news reel movie people.