Judge, 1936-11 · page 7 of 36
Judge — November 1936 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains two satirical pieces from Judge magazine: **"The Judgment Bell"** (top cartoon): Shows figures operating a large seesaw-like contraption labeled as a mechanism for "solving the relief problem." The satire appears to mock ineffective government relief policies—suggesting bureaucratic approaches to poverty assistance were absurdly mechanical and unbalanced rather than genuinely helpful. **"Frankly Speaking"** (bottom cartoon): A woman asks a man to "Marry me, Johanna, and give me inspiration to look for a job!" The accompanying text discusses employment difficulties and mentions "domestic difficulties" being broadcast on radio networks. This satirizes how economic hardship (likely Depression-era) was affecting marriage prospects and employment, while also mocking how personal problems became public entertainment through radio broadcasts.
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“We got our own way of solving the relief problem out here!” The Judgment Bell HEN in the eveni There sounds a bell of ¢ early yus tone Phen awake or wrapt in peaceful dream Receive its summons chilled in ners and bone. For this bell is the judgment bell Polling sadly in the dying day thus its message is te tell The amateur hour is getting under way, Frankly Speaking FTER the administration tinishes saving the French france and the sh pound, it would be nice if it vould start savi ew American dol lars And in our boyhood days we were knocking nuts off tre instead of electing them to office at this time of Domestic difheulties are now being broade: t networks. an on Coast-to: i ethod than the old even more efficient r fashioned system of employi of servants. “Marry me, Johanna, and give me inspiration to look for a job!” 5 comicbooks.com