Judge — February 1938 — page 21: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

AMERICANISMS Sending battleships to protect a hand. ful of our citizens in China; letting a hundred million pedestrians in this country look out for themselves. Complaining bitterly when our debt- ors default; bonding off all our own debts on the next generation. Voting to set the speed limit at 45 miles an hour; demanding a car that will do 90. Earning the esteem and respect of your fellow citizens by going out and getting a lot of their money away from them. Arresting spies to protect secrets of our battleship construction; showing our battleships in newsreels all over the world. Buying up all the old masters in Europe for our museums and framing Esquire illustrations for our homes. Gnashing our teeth over the nation’s unsound financial policy while paying last week's grocery bill with next week's salary. Cursing the janitor all winter for more heat; spending every week-end with a pair of skiis in a snowbank. —NorMAN SULLIVAN. February, 1938 LEAVING THIS FOR POSTERITY CHIPPED, Anp THIS For us. comicbooks.com