Judge, 1937-05 · page 11 of 37
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# Judge Magazine, May 1937 - Page Analysis This page contains three satirical pieces: **Top cartoon**: Depicts a couple arguing in bed while a baby cries nearby. The joke mocks marital disputes by suggesting they take their argument to "Domestic Relations Court"—implying divorce/separation litigation is so common it should happen in court rather than at home. **Middle section**: Critiques a Delaware legislature bill proposing a $50 annual tax on unmarried men over 30, with revenue going to the Florence Crittenden Home (a shelter for unwed mothers). The author sarcastically notes the bill implies bachelors cause such pregnancies, when in fact "bachelors don't sponsor unmarried expectant mothers"—the satire being that single men aren't responsible. **Bottom cartoon**: Shows a street vendor selling his "solutions to current world problems" for ten cents, likely satirizing Depression-era charlatans or politicians offering cheap fixes to serious economic/social crises. The page also includes a paragraph about sound recording technology advancement in newsreels—presented matter-of-factly amid the satire.
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generator of electricity, a machine for converting fluctuations of sound into units of electrical energy. As the reel unfolds, certain sounds are cut off from the generator by the control man, others are amplified. As the master strip un- winds inch by inch with the newsreel, the various fluctuations in sound produce fluctuations in electric energy, which cause tiny indentations to appear on the sound strip. Then all that remains to do is to take the newsreel minus sound, and on its blank sound track trace the sounds recorded on the master sound track. This operation approaches com- pletion around. six a.m., and the same day, at noon, you can enter a movie theatre and see the whole result run off before your eyes in approximately twelve minutes, You probably don’t appreciate it either, you rascals, you. HE battle between science, with its faith in truth, and religion, with the only truth its faith, still wages un. ceasingly, but at Beach Grove School in Indianapolis a compromise has been reached. The principal told a citizens committee that he would teach the shel- tered kiddies of Beach Grove School not that man was descended from an ape, but that early man was “very crude and awkward.” This seemed to satisfy everybody. Wi deeply resent the innuendo which the Delaware legislature recently turned out concerning the private lives of bachelors. Anyway, some gossip stood up on the floor of the house and introduced a bill to tax all bachelors over thirty in the state the sum of fifty dollars a year. Well, that, in itself, is bearable, but the ugly implication is that the money so raised is to be turned over to the Florence Crittendon Home, a refuge for unmarried expectant moth- ers. We think that here's one politician who has gone just a bit too far. We can even picture the blighter. Bald. head, shell rimmed lasses, pot belly, fat wife and all, envying his betters who remained single, and for years on end plotting revenge until he hatched this devil's own plot. We'd just like to tell this political wheel-horse, this do- mestic zero, that bachelors don’t sponsor unmarried expectant mothers. That's the reason they're bachelors. Te Denver Post, with the largest per capita circulation in the world, inspired the remark that in Denver the main sewer enters every home. However the Post has grown benef- icent. In type an inch high, an eight. column streamer headline in a recent issue proclaims: DENVER BOY, 15, WINNER OF POST’S LATEST CONTEST— AWARDED DOLLAR FOR SPRING POEM ENTITLED “SNOW IN APRIL.” May 1937 "Hey, settle that in Domestic Relations Court and let me get some sleep!” “Here yare, folks. Ten cents for my own solution to current world problems!” comicbooks.com