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# Judge Magazine Satire Analysis (May 1935) This page satirizes several contemporary issues: **Top section** mocks: - **Justice system absurdities**: judges releasing prisoners on bail while locking up witnesses - **Home ownership**: the irony that "everybody" owns homes despite mortgages, banks, and insurance companies holding actual control - **Divorce industry**: portrayed as a profitable "racket" - **Lawyers' troubles**: winning cases that damage their reputations - **Police**: transition from famous Royal Canadian Mounted Police to New York subpoena-servers **Main cartoon** shows a police officer ("Chief's orders") instructing a suspect named "Rocco" to fabricate testimony ("pull yer tie out") before a police lineup—satirizing police corruption and witness intimidation tactics. The satire criticizes institutional dishonesty across law enforcement, courts, and legal professions.
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| hl sR Jack Suurriewowrit, Editor Pare Lorentz Tep Suane, Associate Editors USTICE: Where they lock up the witnesses and let the prisoner out on bail. OWADAYS, everybody owns a IN home. There's the bank, the mortgage-holder, the finance ‘com- pany, the lumber company, the roofing company, the mason, and the tax col- lector. Yes, sir, nowadays everybody owns a home! CODE ND the divorce business is racket where everybody is ing to muscle out. IMILE: Vanished into thin like the economy plank in winrting party’s platform. one try- air, the ND lawyers have their troubles, too, Lots of them win their cases, become famous, and then it turns out that they don’t screen well in the newsreels. NCE it was the Royal North- west Mounted Police who were nous for always getting their man. w it’s the New York subpoena- servers. “Listen, Rocco, we gotta pull yer tie out before you go to the line-up. Chief’s orders are to muss ’em up!” upcr, May, 1933. Morris, IN. Volume 108. Whole No. Morris, Ill, under act of March 3, 1879. Copy: $2.50; 'ISe a copy. Fred L. Rogan, President ani Treasurer. Particular attention is Editorial and executive offices, 18 Eas Ned to the fact that ever: 267% Published monthly by pedre Magazine, Me tered as Second Sth St. New York 3: pyright Law of the U.S. 3 Jack Shuttleworth, Vice Presiden icle and picture appearing in Ju Publication office, 404 North Wesley Ave., Mount nt Matter, July 26, 1933, at the Post Office at pscription ‘fate $1.50 a ‘year; Canada and foreign, rank C. z is protected under the provisions of Section 3 of the Fisher, Secretary; Sadie M. Nilan, Assistant comicbooks.com