Judge — August 1936 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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

Better Beaches UT in Venice, Cal., a machine that the world h: awaited has just been hatched. It is called the “Chud- wick Beach Cleaner,” and it does just scratch the surface when its motor starts to whirr, Nozzir. It beetles about like a mechanized pointer, and shaves off the sand to a depth of four inches. This sand it screens as old watches. The sand it return pick-up remair big circular wire cage—first come, first served. Chu kk will clean one and one-half acres of beach (wh. size is yours, Pierrepont ?), in the fast time of ¢ minutes, at a cost of seventy-five cents an hour. We think this is all to the good. Only trouble, it doesn’t go all the w So—we have gotten together some old autom a slew of chicken wire, and a motor. And we have m: ctical and much larger machine on the This job is equipped to cope with the more s of the eastern beach nd has been desi It will not only take care of routine weekend matters like pecls, tin cans, papers, old straw hats, and the pa whimpering ends of abandoned frankfurters. It will not on ferret out and scoop up lost shoes and cold cream tubes for its owners, It takes care—and too dit is for ther vf that vast horde of animate 1 vho turn a beautiful stretch of sand into an inferno of nuisances in the short space of ter minutes These are the specific objectives which our machine has Junior’s Awards UNIOR believes that the day of the sporting gesture, the super service, the outstanding act, is not yet done. He believes, moreover, suitable recognition. So he is mak ing y ard of that em of probity, gaiety, and goodfellow ship—a High Hat. A Dobbs, no less Junior’s other monthly award takes the appropriate form of a Flannel Night . It will go to that He or She who speaks or acts most out of turn. It will grace the conks of Kings of Killjoy, Dukes of Dumbth and Emperors of the Faux- pas. It will cover not only the head and ears of the recipient, but the h as well. It will effective muffle speech. Judge Jr. welcome nominations for both awards in the form of authentic clippings from the press. Let’s hear! The Judge Jr. High Hat Awari Thomas E. Dewey, N.Y. City ration: For brilliant work in convicting’ Charles Lu no and eight of his pals on charges of compul titution. ture of the conspiracy charged; al types of men involved in the stealthy ding up of a huge vice syndicate; the kind of witnesses alone, despite their weaknesses and terrors, testimony had to be obtained; the difficu » presenting and appraising such testimon nbine to make the conviction of “Lucky” ht of his vice-exploiting henchmen an nph of justice. st time that a mob of racketeers have been cted (and since sentenced to long terms) of being eteers. Dewey didn’t get his men on charges of evad- cir income taxes. hanks to the masterly conduct of this prosecution, the ps of prostitutes and small fry front men ure in acknowle Mr. Dewey’ onal triumph— ward of this department’s Dobbs High Hat. comicbooks.com