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# Economic Recovery Satire This page satirizes Depression-era "self-help" entrepreneurship schemes. The top cartoon shows police officials admiring a child's elaborate patrol car, with the caption suggesting admiration for makeshift ingenuity. Below, "Economic Recovery: What These Men Have Done You Too Can Do" mocks absurd business ideas presented as legitimate success stories. Each example describes comically useless products: - Whittling knots for fence holes - Window shades for lighthouses (to protect sailors from glare) - A bladeless razor marketed to beardless Native Americans - Roller skates designed for homing pigeons unable to fly The satire targets the period's proliferation of dubious money-making schemes pitched to desperate Americans seeking economic recovery. Judge magazine ridicules both the con-artist promoters inventing fake markets and the desperation of people willing to try anything to survive economically. The crude drawings and impossible business premises emphasize the absurdity of the pitches.
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out ime US ill ull. in ng ate Judge and cool this What “But chief, it's so nice way!” ECONOMIC RECOVERY These Men Have Done You Too Can Do J. HUMBOLT McSWIZZ, of Ke- wanee, IIl., makes a good living for his wife and 12 chil- dren by whittling out knots for knot- holes in fences around baseball parks. = Ca PT. BRAD- FORD ASHING- HAM, of Marble- head, Mass., man- ufactures black circular window shades for light- houses so the glare doesn't bother the poor sailors. P. 5. BusH- SCRAPER, of Ish- peming, Mich., has perfected a bladeless safety razor. These he sells to beardless Indians at an enor- mous profit. N. TATTERFORD WILSINGFORD, of Dil- lon, Mont., finds a ready market for his roller skates for homing pigeons that can’t fly. Poca ah comicbooks.com