Judge, 1933-03 · page 8 of 40
Judge — March 1933 — page 8: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Page **Top Cartoon ("Judge"):** A courtroom scene where a defendant's lawyer argues that the "State's alienist [psychiatrist] says the defendant's alienist is crazy." This satirizes expert witness testimony in legal proceedings—mocking how opposing psychiatric experts contradict each other so thoroughly that their credibility becomes questionable. **Bottom Cartoon ("Proposal"):** A romantic scene where a suitor pitches himself by boasting of owning "British Thermal Units" and "good horse power"—technical measurements. The humor mocks how mechanization and industrial measurement language have infiltrated even romantic expression. The caption about "Technocracy" references the 1930s movement advocating rule by technical experts, suggesting absurd over-mechanization of life itself.
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“If this Technocracy keeps up, dearie, digging for electric light bulbs instead of gold!” “Your honor—the State's alienist says the defendant's alienist is crazy!” we'll be 6 Proposal Dares, when I look into your yes I feel like a million watts. You’re the coil of my dreams and I just can’t get along without you. Sweetheart, you've got IT. got British Thermal Units, what's more you've got good horse power. “My love for you is direct and will never be alternating. Dearest, wire you so aloof? y you'll be mine— lerg you. Every week I'll take you out to dyne and see a show. What if we do have to sit in the callorie. Think how happy we'll be in our little cottage singing, ‘Ohm Sweet Ohm’ together. They say a photograph of a mod- ern steel mill will show a large plant without a single human being in evi- dence. There are lots of plants like that. And we can show you lots of stores without a single human being in them, too, And it’s high time colleges cut out teaching co-eds how to extract cube root and taught them to extract ice- cubes from a refrigerator tray, in- stead. comicbooks.com