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This page contains two distinct sections: **Top Section:** Editorial commentary criticizing European indifference to Christian persecution. The text argues that while Europe ignores religious violence, American business interests (represented by "Uncle Sam's prosperity mill") are pragmatically profiting regardless of moral concerns. It suggests American industrialists are deliberately avoiding ethical debates to maintain financial gain. **Bottom Cartoon:** Titled "In Kansas," depicts a frontier family amid chaos—livestock scattered, figures in disarray. The caption quotes "Dragon Browser": "Wa-al, I yum! When I prayed, last night, for things to come my way, I gums I was a deelie too darned fervent." This appears to satirize rural prayer or frontier desperation, possibly mocking simplistic faith-based approaches to hardship. The page juxtaposes serious geopolitical critique with rural American humor.

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PUBLISHED WEEKLY At rar Parxke UILDING, FOURTH AVENUE axD Noverxxxtu Sruxet, New Youn, Wesreen Apventising Orrice—S28 Marguctts Building, Chicago, TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS ATED AMD CANADA IN ADVAN One copy, one year, or 52 numbers One copy, six months, or 26 numbers One copy, for thirteen weeks Including the Cumesratas Junk. FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS—To all forzign countries in the postal union, $5.00 2 year. Fonorean SaLes-acunts—Internationat News Company, Broam's building, Chancery Lane, E. C. London Brentano's, Avenue de" Opera, wariach's News Exchange, Mains, Germany. The contents of FUDGE are protected by copyright in both the United States and Great Britain, Infringement of this conyright will be promptly and digorously prosecuted. CONTRIBUTORS mast incase a stamoed and self-atéressed endrelope woth all manascrtpts, otbeMioise return of the Latter when found unavailable cannot be guaranteed. DRAWINGS and all contribations sent to the Art Department should have the sender's full name and address "written plainly on each and every separate sketch. The accompanying joke or descripttve letter-press should in dvery instance be written apon tts indtoidual picture, and NOT upon a separate stip of paper. —Inclosare of stamps to the full amount of postage Is also regaired, 10 insure safe and promot return of material not accepted. ASTER A WHILE the continuously hungry buzzard will circle and drift lazily about the wind-swept wastes of sky-land while anxiously watch- ing and waiting for the gilt-edged festal blessing of the next automobile accident. ae THE PIGSKIN, whizzing, as it fies Beneath the Spanish-omelet skies, Is just the thing That makes us sing As if on seas of joy awing. And yet the stuff insi¢e the pig- Skin is the stuff that’s twice as big, And twice as sweet The band to beat, Because it’s roast and sausage meat. WHILE ALL EUROPE is lost in a profound slumber of indifference, the unspeakable Turk continues to carry on the business of assas- sination against the Christian which he has carried on from time imme- morial. He realizes, or fancies he realizes, that he may go on indefinitely with his high-handed deeds of atrocity without any fear of the vengeance of Europe falling upon his miserable head. With the Turk each and every kind of rapacity is constitutional. A love of carnage is born in him and practically developed, as if it were a fine art, until the chopping off of a head fills and thrills him with a rare, ineffable pleasure. If the Turk could be rd NG he Poe Oba OB sb é but crated and tossed into the Bosphorus, like a mad dog, the tosser of the crate would do a service to society and civilization that would entitle him to more gold diamond-studded medals than could find space on his anatomy. It is to be hoped that Europe will soon waken from her long, unbroken sleep of indifference and pitch into and annihilate the Turk. He is ripe for annihilation, and it is to be trusted that he will not be/permitted much longer to mow down the Christian as a mere matter of recreation. INCLE SAM'S prosperity mill is at present running on full time, and his business is increasing at such a rate that before long he will also be making hay while the moon shines. The most cordial and friendly relations exist between Uncle Sam and the laborer in his vineyard and factory. Their grip-sacks and suit-cases are bulging with the gold of financial victory, and it is not to be wondered at that their two continuous smiles, blending one with the other, form and constitute a rainbow of good fortune that is simply a puzzle to all foreign meteorologists. Uncle Sam is a leader and not a follower, and where he leads, John Bull and Kaiser Wilhelm are not only willing but glad to follow. John Bull’s and the kai- ser’s business interests seem to be on the wane, and they are more than anxious to avoid the cyclone that appears to be brewing for their special destruction. They do not care to see the empyrean of commerce gaudily embroidered in kaleidoscopic fashion with the flying fragments of their anatomies. Therefore they are showing their good sound sense by keep- ing in the footsteps of a born leader along the solid, enduring road of pro- tection. Two so worthy followers in the footsteps of so worthy a captain are sure to bring about results that will be feathers of triumph in their crowns that will neither fade nor tarnish. A Pains iS 1 GR, IN KANSAS. Deacon Browsen—“ Wa-al, | vum! When I prayed, last night, fer things ter come my way, I guess | was a /eetle too durned fervent.” comicbooks.com