Judge, 1917-08-11 · page 4 of 28
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This page from Judge contains editorials and satirical commentary rather than primary political cartoons. The "Vacations" editorial mocks American vacation culture—how people feel obligated to take them despite preferring to stay home, and how vacations have become standardized rather than genuinely restorative. The "Sixes and Sevens" section includes brief political jabs: one references Venizelos (Greek statesman) and a comparison to Lincoln; another criticizes Germany's boasting about potash while depending on imports; a third jokes that Woodrow Wilson might wish he were Merkel (unclear reference); finally, it quips that Congress views war problems from "every wrangle." The kangaroo cartoon appears to illustrate the vacations theme about discomfort or awkwardness while traveling. The publication date and specific historical context remain unclear from this page alone.
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Cy Vacations ACATIONS are of three kinds—those which you take V because you want to, those which you take because your wife wants you to, and those which everybody because everybody takes them. For statistical purposes, the first kind may be ignored, and the second may be minimized —because if everybody didn’t take a vacation nobody would take one. Vacations do the greatest good to the greatest number, because if you are at home you wish you were away on vaca- tion, and if you are away on vacation you wish you were at home. Vacations are like the boy out in the woodshed, whose male parent exclaim “T hope you don’t think I am doing this be- cause I like it,” and the boy replied: “I hope you don’t think you are doing it because I like it.” Vacations have done a lot to repopularize the once well and favorably known American home. Tossing on his cot at the summer resort, though sur- rounded with all the modern inconveniences, who has not ex- perienced the pleasures-dazzle-in-vain sentiment? Why, to be awakened by the familiar ring of the home telephone at 2 A.M., followed by the cheerful “excuse it, please,” one would barter for that homely joy all the flesh-pots of Egypt—if one’s rural landlord had not shipped all the strictly fresh home grown flesh-pots to the Pharaoh of the city market. President Wilson announced the other day that he would cut out his vacation this year, and stay in Washington whether Congress adjourned or not—thus putting it up to Congress, as it were, whether his stay in that midsum- takes va B BROWS ye OK I Ohad Ley sz AS ip mer political purgatory should be in the nature of a celebration or a mitigation. Even so, better, far better, be a President than be a King and save up for a reigny day with a practically dead certainty that the reign will wind up with thunder and lightning. Vacations are for the rest and the change. Your wife and daughters get the itineraries, the clothes, the descriptive litera- ture, andcontract the bills. You do the rest and keep the change. We knew a philanthropist who left a large fortune to found a vacation fund, the only conditions being that every beneficiary should forfeit his share in the fund should he try to sneak home before the end of his vacation, and that no beneficiary should have been at any time a personal friend of the testator. Vacations are taken in summer because most of us aren’t smart enough for a cold getaway. Sixes and Sevens ENIZELOS, Greek statesman, mustn’t be too cocky just be- cause they say he is “like Lincoln.” The only personage in our time who wasn’t like Lincoln was Aguinaldo, and he’s about due to be, now that he has bought a Liberty Bond. # Germany boasts that we de- pend on her for our potash. We don’t for our Perlmutter, though. 2 Sometimes Woodrow Wilson must wish he was Merkel. Merkel, if you remember, was the man who didn’t touch second. & Congress tries to view all the war problems from every wrangle.