Judge, 1917-05-26 · page 6 of 32
Judge — May 26, 1917 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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This WWI-era piece satirizes civilian attitudes toward the war through two illustrations. **Top cartoon**: Shows fashionable women with small dogs on a city street, juxtaposing domestic frivolity with warfare. The title "Dogs of War" puns on the phrase meaning instruments of conflict. **"The Notion Counter"** column below mocks various home-front behaviors: women hosting frequent meals and selecting soldiers to write resolutions, a girl pursuing multiple soldiers, society's slow mobilization efforts, and tensions between German/English maids. The final illustration shows a child requesting a soldier to "have a battle for Oswald" — satirizing how civilians, especially children, trivialize combat as entertainment. The overall message: civilians remain oblivious or frivolous while men fight, treating war as background to social life rather than grave national crisis.
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DOGS OF WAR THE NOTION COUNTER By DOUGLAS MALLOCH WOMAN has to get twenty meals every week, and Sunday night supper. They generally select as the man to write the resolutions some fellow who says “approve of.” If we did only the things that we knew would be appreciated we wouldn't get much done. Our Scotch collie has just licked a long, low, rakish-looking dog that he suspected of being achshund The kicker who always used to be yelling in the restaurant for service now has a chance to enlist in it Perhaps it was because we had no terri- torial dreams that we were so slow waking un. We can’t get a German maid, nor an English maid; so I guess we'll have to get a maid in Ameri The book-keeper says if he is conscripted he is going to try to get a job keeping books in the army. He believes there is safety in numbers. One reason, perhaps, why Wilhelm is not ur Carranza has told him what we said about getting Villa Some folks want to cut Wagner out of our programs. What, and let our bass drummers starve to death? Son has measles, but he will probably be over them by the time you read this, so you are perfectly safe. They used to tell us not to talk war, to talk business; but now we are doing both. War, says the college volunteer, may be all that Sherman said it was; but so are June exams. The United States is no place for a man who isn’t for the United States, is because Apparently, the hardest thing in the world to pacify is a pacifist. A girl in our neighborhood is in love w soldiers that you could almost say that she is attached to the army, After all, the boy who wins is the one who sticks to a job he isn’t stuck on h so man; Were. Little girl—" Mister, will you please have a battle for Oswald an’ me comicbooks.com