Judge, 1937-07 · page 4 of 37
Judge — July 1937 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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# "Cross" Page Analysis This page contains editorial commentary and cartoon vignettes titled "Music Hath Charms" rather than a single political cartoon. The "Cross" column discusses three unrelated social observations: Wyoming's bear problem (bears shot on sight, creating danger for residents), a Minnesota R.O.T.C. student with flat feet who exercises by picking up marbles with his toes, and Buffalo residents who apparently signed a petition to move city hall without reading what they were signing. The accompanying cartoons illustrate these anecdotes with humor—showing the bear incident, the marble-picking exercise, and people mindlessly signing documents. The satire targets gullibility and absurd situations in American life rather than specific political figures. The overall tone is lighthearted, mocking human foolishness and bureaucratic absurdity rather than partisan politics.
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CROSS OX hat is off to Larry Flint for his accurate reporting of one phase, at least, of life among the fair sex of southern Ohio. To those of you who still harbor the notion that hill-billies are taciturn hicks and that their womenfolk haven't the ropensity for gossip that club life seems 4 rastill in their ety cousins, we refer you to the report of our observant cor- |réspondent: “Out where I live a couple { of women were driving along a muddy road in a buggy on their way to the meeting house. Suddenly one of the horse's hoofs heaved a big gob of mud back into the buggy. Socko! It hit one of the ladies right in the ear and stuck there. “What happened? She just turned to the other lady with a look of surprise. “You don’t say!’ she‘exclaimed.” ‘THE deplorable situation in which Wyoming bears now find them. selves has been brought to our atten- tion, though not by one of their num. ber. : The facts are these: in seven Wyo- ming districts, bears are game animals, protected except in open season; in the rest of the state they are predatory ani- mals, to be shot on sight. In other words, if you are a bear in Wyoming, you don’t know for sure where you are or what you are till some- one puts a bullet in you. It's a good thing bears don’t think. AS THE light burned late in the li- brary where we were making a de. termined effort to keep posted on cur- rent literature, our middle-western oper. ator fluttered this little tale over our transom. A first year student in the R.O.T.C. at Minnesota University, found that his flat feet gave him a bit of trouble dur- ing the intricacies of drill. Consulting a specialist, he was urged to exercise the foot muscles by picking up marbles with his toes. For the next six months he spent an hour a day just as the doctor ordered, and today, what do you think? He is just as flat-footed as ever, but he is a whiz at picking up marbles with his toes. PEOPLE will sign anything, appar- ently, without demur—except pos- sibly notes for friends and dinner checks. Some time ago two reporters in Buffalo decided to determine how many of their fellow-townsmen would si, petition to move the city hall, behead a prominent official and a few other such nonsensical items. Probably they would have signed up the entire population had they not decided to quit when they had enough names to make a good story. Less than five asked to read’ what they~ were signing. PAu Conner .. Music Hath Charms Judge comicbooks.com