Judge, 1937-09 · page 6 of 36
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains two cartoons satirizing American social attitudes circa the 1930s-40s. **Top cartoon:** A couple discusses their son John's fascination with fascism after attending military school. The satire criticizes how military education might indoctrinate youth with authoritarian ideologies—a concern during the rise of fascism in Europe. **Bottom cartoon:** A man greets a woman with an extremely long, hyphenated name ("Mrs. Foster-Robinson-Cloth-Tolhurst-Stanton"), satirizing the social pretension of upper-class women who retained multiple surnames through marriages. The joke mocks excessive name-dropping and status-consciousness. The accompanying text discusses labor statistics and a humorous survey of dog names in Vinita, Oklahoma. The overall page reflects 1930s-40s American anxieties about fascism, class affectation, and social change.
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your desires, the world could not con. tain you. Your right hand would touch the East, and your left the West at the same time; you grasp at more than you are equal to. . . . You seem disposed to wage war with woods and snows, with rivers and wild beasts, and to at. tempt to subdue nature. You profess to be a god; it suits the character of a god to bestow favors on mortals, not to de. ptive them of what they have. But if you are no god, reflect on the precarious condition of humanity. You will show more wisdom, than by dwelling on those subjects which have puffed up your pride and made you forget yourself. . ..”” As we said before, we don’t want to make an issue of it. We were only thinking. ‘THE class in mathematics will please come to order. The model American family consists of five members. (Department of Labor Reports.) The father, 46, is in his phys- ical prime but, by modern (Federal) standards is too old to work. The moth. er, 42, is unable to work because it is unsocial for a woman to compete in in. dustry when she has a husband to sup. port her, whether he is doing so or not. ’ A son, 18, is too young to work. (See "John is definitely fascist ever since we've sent Children’s Bureau.) Another son, 22, is Morton to military school.” not allowed to work by the Labor Rela- tions Board, although he does not know why. The daughter, Anne, works. Question: How old is Anne? HANDED down from generation 'to generation, along with black serge ants and gold.filled case watches, has na bit of American folklore concern. ing what the old lady said when she kissed the cow. Whether the old lady was right or wrong, has probably never been ques- tioned until the other day when Dr. Albert F. Blakeslee of the Carnegie In- stitute of Washington passed out forty. three mannose sugar pills to as many human guinea pigs, thereby obtaining the following scientific confirmation of the old lady's observation: Eighteen peo- ~ple said mannose was sweet; two said it was sour; five said it was bitter; seven said it was both sweet and bitter; and eleven said it was tasteless. JN VINITA, Okla., a desperate re. porter finally went around collecting the names of Vinita’s dog population. He found that Maggie and Jiggs were the most Popalat dog names in town— y Twittersby the most unusual one. WE HAVE always wanted to stand in the position of an employer. Every time we think of having somebody work for us we form a lazy mental pic- ture of security, security assured by peo- ple who would be scurrying around and doing things. Also, we think it would be great fun to have office picnics and parties and maybe even a corn roast. . We have on hand, however, an item "It’s nice to see you again, Mrs. Foster- that has dealt our day-dream a rather Robinson-Cloth-T olburst-Stanton!” severe blow. It seems that being an em- Judge comicbooks.com