Judge, 1917-05-26 · page 5 of 32
Judge — May 26, 1917 — page 5: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
**"Our Home Guard"** (top cartoon): Shows soldiers with bayonets confronting what appears to be a civilian. The caption's joke about "charging bayonets" suggests satire about military preparedness or home defense drills, likely from WWI era when American civilians were being trained for potential combat. **"The Sixth Sense"** (article): Argues that a "kicker"—someone with kicking ambitions—is useful to society. The piece uses kicking metaphorically to discuss protest and resistance to authority, advocating that such people should study theory before acting. It concludes satirically that finding the "sixth sense" would help direct this energy productively rather than "quite intact" toward chaos. **"An Unpardonable Omission"** (right): A brief joke about a telegraph editor forgetting to mention "heavy" weather—unclear without broader context.
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OUR HOME GUARD Private Juggins—Oh! Excuse me! Did you say charge bayonets? THE SIXTH SENSE GOOD KICKER is said to be a very useful member A of society because he is a kicker. One may easily see that if there were no protest from anybody as to the way things go on, they would go on very much worse than they do, which is often bad enough. So the kicker belongs. Let us not think him obsolete. Still, one thing ought to be said to those who have kicking ambitions. They should not graduate into the cult until they have looked into the theory as well as the practice. Some few important principles have to be borne in mind. It should be remembered that in resenting a state of things we are most likely resenting the behavior or policy of some human who is directly responsible for what we object to. Very good. Then, is it not better to kick at headquarters? Well, say we arrive at headquarters. What do we find? The human in charge is on duty. Yes; but he has only five senses. The sixth one is missing. Not there at all Then we begin to realize. It is a profound difiiculty. We can kick, we can kick good and hard, but we don’t know where to find an extra sixth sense lying around loose. If we did we could hand it to him, and that An Unpardonable Omission Cub—Why did they discharge the telegraph editor, | wonder? Star—He wrote a head about firing being heard off the coast and forgot to say that it was “heavy.” would fix things. As it is. we see that the means and the ends look like fifty-fifty, and we go home, carrying our kick with us quite intact. Do we, though? —T. C. Mojor—Isn't that just like a cat, to take the only spot of sun in the room? General—Yes, they have a lot of human traits. comicbooks.com