Judge, 1917-06-02 · page 19 of 28
Judge — June 2, 1917 — page 19: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily a humor section featuring brief college-themed jokes submitted by student publications (Penn State Froth, Cornell Widow, etc.), followed by an advertisement for the Bell Telephone System. **The humor section** presents lighthearted romantic and campus scenarios—engagements, courtship mishaps, borrowed dress suits—typical of college magazines. The jokes rely on wordplay and naive romantic situations rather than satire. **The advertisement** emphasizes American technological superiority, boasting that Bell System telephone wire extends 20 million miles—enough to reach the moon 40 times. It highlights that Americans are adding phones faster than entire European nations have accumulated in forty years. This nationalist messaging is notable given the 1917 date (U.S. entered WWI that year), framing telephone infrastructure as evidence of American industrial dominance. The accompanying illustration—"War Babies"—(visible but unclear in detail) appears to connect to wartime themes, though specifics are hard to determine from the image quality.
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With the College Wits Only Engaged—.V/ubel—How do you ke my new hat that I bought on your account? Fiancé—On my account? Not yet, my dear; this is still on your dad.—Penn State Froth. It Sets One Up aeroplane near the sea young thing “©Ves.’ replied the aviator thoughtfully, - the air is so much more bracing.” Is it easier to fly an * cooed the sweet idorfer “I dreamed last night that I proposed tu a beautiful girl,” he conti “And what did I breathlessly.—T iger * she queried Unfortunate Attachment—“ I’m in an avful stew. Jim borrowed the beit to my dress suit.” Get another belt.” Yes, but the pants were around the belt." —Froth. Invariably—.A short cut often takes t gest.” quoth the sage. replied the cheerful idiot, *tes- fe at the barber shop.”—Cornell Widow, No Quarter!—C/rollie—I shall be in the social eye next wintah, Ferdie—Aw yes, haw! Social eye mouth Jack o Lantern, ~Dart- Multum in Parvo—Frosh alittle? Engineer—Not Orel. Surveying Surveying a lot.—Sour She Does—a girl may not let you kiss her, but the chances are she appreciates your wanting to.—Tiger, Sanitary Engineering—Dormer—Why are you putting your birthday candy away? Dormee—So as not to expose it to gi hping co i ie arity By Ite pi Se the case of hx gla’ ppered bottles. (Adv.) | Twenty Million Miles of Telephone Wire : The telephone wire in use in the Bell System is long enough to run from the earth to the inoon and_ back again forty times. The Bell System has about twice as much telephone wire as all Europe. More than 500,000 new telephones are being added to the Bell System yearly —almost as many as the total number of telephones in England. In twelve months the Bell System adds enough telephones to duplicate the entire telephone systems of France, Italy and Switzerland combined. In proportion to population the extension of the Bell System in the United States is equal in two years to the total telephone progress of Europe since the telephone was in- vented—a period of about forty years. The Bell System fills the telephone needs of the American people with a thoroughness and a spirit of public service which are without parallel the world over. AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY AND ASSOCIATED COMPANIES One Policy One System Universal Service ‘THIS amusing picture in full colors, 9x12, mounted on a heavy mat, ready for the frame, will be sent postpaid for twenty-five cents “War Babies" Judge Art Print Department 225 Fifth Avenue New York City