Judge, 1934-06 · page 13 of 41
Judge — June 1934 — page 13: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine: "Judge's Camera Contest" Page Analysis This page showcases satirical cartoon submissions for a photography/illustration contest. The cartoons mock various prominent figures and situations: **Top left (Lesmith):** Alfred Ambulance's wartime invention—a frying pan worn as armor to catch enemy bullets as they "turned around and started back down." **Top right:** Herman Fleep's mock of Edgar Allan Poe, showing someone writing while wearing a hat (referencing Poe's reported practice). **Middle:** A still-life of banker Harry Pilton's office—depicting the mundane items (desk items, dice, containers) used in his loan-granting decisions, satirizing that serious financial decisions may lack serious deliberation. **Bottom right (Moses Floorwax):** A joke about reducing the national deficit by having White House visitors shake the President's hand while standing on floorwax in the doorway, so they'd slip and lose money from their pockets. The page satirizes wartime absurdities, literary pretension, corrupt banking practices, and government inefficiency through humorous visual gags typical of Judge's satirical style.
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