Judge, 1935-10 · page 7 of 36
Judge — October 1935 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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# Page Analysis: Judge Magazine **Top Section ("Add Similes"):** Dark humor about Washington, D.C. traffic fatalities. The judge compares "inmates of an insane asylum" reading Washington news to people dying in traffic accidents—suggesting Washington's politics are as chaotic as deadly streets. References "present traffic conditions" and quips that hesitating drivers are "taxed to death." **Bottom Section ("Thanksgiving on Tuesday"):** Satirizes a Fishery Advisory Committee proposal to move Thanksgiving from Thursday to Tuesday. The author mocks this bureaucratic overreach, suggesting government meddling in traditional holidays is absurd. The accompanying cartoon shows a man precariously balanced on a wheeled contraption, captioned "A copy of Popular Mechanics, please!"—suggesting government schemes are as unstable as DIY contraptions.
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Judge Add Similes ( ZFUL as the in- mates of an insane asylum reading the Wash- ington news in their daily paper. Combining the two, the only thing certain is being taxed to death. And with our present traffic conditions, he who hesitates is last. There are now about a dozen radio amateur hours. And so far two hundred ilies have moved away aska. Seventy million people in this country hold life in- surance, says a trade mag- azine. Maybe that accounts for the way they drive on Sunday. Thanksgiving on Tuesday HE Fishery Advisory Cagamittee of the Department of Commerce ha& recommended that Thanksgiving be changed from the last Thursday to the | last Tuesday in November, on the grounds t with turk the follow MAGATIN' AND ES NEWSPAPERS EEE the people are so stuffed they don’t eat much fish on ig Fri There is something to this attempt to | put the government in the fish business. Oysters would sell better if the calendar were changed so that every month had | an R in it. And Washington's birthday is always associated with cherry trees | if How much better it would be, therefore, to celebrate it in June when cherries are ripe and Mommer could bake a cherry pie commemorating the event. We always have thought it rather a ridiculous idea to start the new year with a headache. A better time to cele- brate New Year’s Day would be some- — time during the vacation period. So let’s have a New Deal in Holi- days. Let’s put all the dates in a hat and scramble them up, thus providing an entirely new set. Most of the holidays date from the horse-and-buggy days any- way. Relatives don’t drive to Grandma's “ . for Thanksgiving Dinner now. They A copy of Popular Mechanics, please!” live there. R.C.O. 5 comicbooks.com