Judge — February 1936 — page 15: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

Judge Truth T occurs to us A chance to holler Is all the taxpayer Gets for his dollar. A fellow we know says his university sheepskin would come in handy right now—if the dean had only left the sheep in it. Then there was the gen- eral who was wounded dur- ing a battle. His barber cut him, Simple Celia’s old) man believes that some kinds of jewelry are unlucky. With him he says it was wedding rings. Wall Street Version: The customer's always ripe. And personally we think the best thing to do with the Townsend Plan is to use it as a plot for a musical comedy. “We're leaving this here in case of fire.” Sic Transit HE geniuses of other years Are shedding bitter, d And turning over in their 1 For doubtless these poor fellows know That moguls of the radio Are using them upon the ether waves. Poor Mozart now supplies the theme Which introduces dental cream To listeners from Timbuctoo to Texas, While Mendelssohn is often played lo plug a pill expressly made To deaden pain within the solar plexus The works of Avon's gentle Bard Are used to push a certain lard, While Tennyson, 4 Extol a certain brand « And Dumas introduces bassinets. It is the irony of fate That recognition comes too late; Today, if all these chaps the earth did plod, They'd have a jewelled and ermined spouse, A city and a country house, And — well — perhaps they're happier ‘neath the sod —Axnert G. Minter. “Here comes that glass bottom sight-seeing boat again, boys.” 13 comicbooks.com