Judge, 1937-08 · page 10 of 37
Judge — August 1937 — page 10: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Analysis The left side contains a visual comic strip (credited to Paul Kearney) showing progressive crowding of people in bed—beginning with one couple and ending with many figures squeezed together. This illustrates a space-saving or overcrowding joke, likely mocking apartment living or resource scarcity. The text covers several satirical items: 1. **A health club** promoting luxury amenities (pools, sun-lamps, massages)—social commentary on leisure spending. 2. **Oklahoma crime wave**: A darkly comic piece about criminals escaping from a prison camp at night to rob neighboring towns, then returning to enjoy the jail's superior food and amenities. The satire targets both criminal absurdity and possibly Depression-era prison conditions being better than outside poverty. 3. **Wealth inequality**: References a Twentieth Century Fund report showing extreme corporate wealth concentration, contrasting the nation's reported per-capita circulation ($50.76) against ordinary people's actual cash ($1.39)—mocking economic statistics' disconnect from reality. 4. **Social Security tattoos and NRA**: Notes reluctance to tattoo social security numbers, attributed to public distrust following the NRA symbol being voided by the Supreme Court. 5. **Class distinction**: Humorously proposes measuring Westminster Abbey seating (19 inches for nobles, 18 for commoners) as a method to identify aristocrats—satirizing class pretension.
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reduce their waist-line. Then they can take a swim in the pool, get a rub-down, a pedicure, or what they will. If the sun isn’t shining, they can obtain a sun-bath under special sun-lamps, get an oil shampoo, and wear an individual crash towel jacket after the rub-down. Dr. Stark feels that the club will fill a long felt need. Although, no doubt, a cootie or flea could wreak havoc and cause a riot if it ever smuggled itself in. 'HE west, which has tamed down a bit, threatened to become woolly once more. Out in Oklahoma, many towns complained of pillaging and pilfering at night. No one could understand the rea- son for the crime wave, since most of the local criminals were in jail. And so they were in jail. But recent investigations disclosed that groups of criminals would slip away from the state pesen camp at night, to rob the neigh. ring towns, and return to prison in the morning. It afforded them an iron-clad alibi. They returned because they really enjoyed the good food and fine surround. ings that the jail and camp afforded, plus of course, the alibi. At any rate, the citizens of Oklahoma can rest assured that after the officials complete their investigation, the boys will be kept in jail . . . that is, until the next time. A RECENT report of the Twentieth Century Fund showed the extraordi- nary fact that half the corporate wealth of the land is owned by three-twentieths of one per cent of the corporations of the land. It's things like this that ex- plain how the U.S. Treasury can report that the per capita amount of money in circulation in the United States is $50.76 —and you only find $1.39 in your pocket. ‘*©DROFESSOR” Fosdick, Seattle tat- tooer, regretfully reports that very few persons have been getting their so. cial security number tattooed for ready and permanent reference. He ascribes , this disinclination to the public's unfor- tunate experience in having the NRA blue eagles tattooed—only to have the Supreme Court step in and void the sym- bo D2 you know an aristocrac when you see one? Can you tell 2 blue-blood from the common herd when they are all dressed up of a Sunday afternoon? Up till now they have looked alarmingly alike to us, but no more. With the in. formation we are about to give you it will be possible to distinguish one from the other with a minimum of trouble. Our authority is the person who has charge of the seating in Westminster Ab- bey. Nobles are allotted nineteen inches of space, while commoners have to get by with eighteen. This makes the matter very simple. If you are doubtful about a person’s lineage, merely ask the party to stoop over and whip out your tape meas- ure. Judge @ comicbooks.com