Judge, 1929-01-12 · page 24 of 36
Judge — January 12, 1929 — page 24: what you’re looking at
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This page satirizes wartime industrial production and corporate management during what appears to be WWI or WWII era (based on submarine design references). **The main cartoon** depicts six grizzled naval engineers debating minor technical specifications for a submarine design with intense seriousness. The satire lies in the punchline: after this serious technical discussion, an executive announces they'll mass-produce the design as a **toy submarine** for department stores, racing to beat last year's sales quota. The joke mocks how corporate manufacturing priorities override genuine engineering concerns. These seasoned naval experts are staking their reputations on submarine performance, unaware their work will become a children's toy. It satirizes the disconnect between serious technical work and commercial toy manufacturing, suggesting corporate greed and poor judgment in wartime production. The bottom cartoon about Lady Roostershire is an unrelated society joke about serial marriages.
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JUDGE Prastenen (feeding son)—Say, listen, Mayme; “Your recommendations, gen | The Submarine Squad tle n?" said the chairman. Six grizzled men—men whose The line of rivets just off the keen eyes and bronzed skin — starboard bow should be pushed smacked of the sea—sat around — back six inche a long table. Before them on its polished surface rested scale of a submarine to insure struc- said one of the tural stabil experts. “Port torpedo tube should be slightly elevated,” said a gray- haired veteran, a small plete in every detail from conning tower to torpedo tubes, | “They say that Lady Roostershire of Roostershire married three Earls while touring England last summer.” “She evidently believes in changing her Earl every five hundred miles.” L 7 cY+DM hand me the trowel out of my tool-kit! “Any other suggested changes?” asked the presiding officer, colleagues. There was a silence. “Then you all have contributed your best to the design of this new submarine? You are willing to stake your reputations on its performance: Ay, > sir,” rd of strate “Very good, then, Our drafts men will labor all night to finish the blueprints. We go into pro- duction at = dawn tomorrow. Thereafter, by working the fac- tory in day and night shifts, I'll have the new sub in every toy dep: the faces of his answered the be ine on sale tment in the country within at least Get your sample cases a out. And remember—w ing to beat last ye rs sales quota by at least 6547, Let's go!” ~—Artucr L. Lippmann “There's a man outside begging for clothes him that old suit of “But he looks as if he had seen er days.” “Then give him my tuxedo.” u comicbooks.com y