Judge, 1936-07 · page 5 of 36
Judge — July 1936 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis This page from *Judge* contains political commentary and a cartoon. The text snippets mock various targets: European militarism, American consumerism (the "Americanism" joke about expensive purchases), Democratic taxation policy, newspaper sensationalism around sweepstakes, and Congressional representative Zioncheck's political behavior. The main cartoon, titled "Are you fairly fast?" by Chon Day, depicts a man lying under an umbrella on a beach, apparently napping or sunbathing, while two children stand nearby. The joke appears to satirize either parental laziness during summer recreation or, less clearly, may reference a period when beach activities were becoming more accessible to working-class Americans. The humor relies on visual irony rather than explicit political commentary.
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Jack Suuttiewortn, Editor N the European picture the demilitar- ized zones stand out very plainly. They’re the ones full of soldiers. ND it’s beginning to look as if everybody in the United States would get relief except the fellow who is paying for it. EWSPAPERS are writing col- umns of editorials denouncing the sweepstakes and printing full-page photographs of the winners. Pare Lorentz Teo SHane EW YORK now has air-cooled department stores, where formerly this feature was just confined to the complaint department. MERICANISM: Spending two hours buying a life insurance pol- icy and two-tenths of a second going through the grade crossing. HE business man’s problem is to keep his feet on the ground and a desk under them. “Are you fairly fast?” ; Stan.ey Jones, Associate Editors HE Greeks may have given us our alphabet but the Democrats made us pay taxes on it. ie two years the sponsors of the Townsend Plan managed to take in one million dollars and ten million peo- ple. ND in our town a lot of voters fig- ure that Congressman Zioncheck has been acting the way most Congress- men think. comicbooks.com