Judge, 1917-08-25 · page 20 of 28
Judge — August 25, 1917 — page 20: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This Judge page collects wartime satirical cartoons from multiple British and allied publications, addressing WWI-era social disruptions: **Labor Shortage**: A farm manager orders a boy to abandon chores for bakery errands—reflecting severe worker depletion as men enlisted. **Tea-Shop Complaint**: A customer requests "war bread" (likely rationed or inferior quality), then a fat man worries he's seen as a food hog despite appetite loss—satire on rationing anxieties and food scarcity. **War Bonus**: A shopkeeper's "war bonus" tack-on of half-pence mocks inflation and profiteering disguised as patriotic surcharges. **Labor Displacement**: A woman's husband was conscripted despite having one leg shorter—gallows humor about how desperation drove even the disabled into service. **Iron Scrap**: French cartoon mocks British salvage efforts, sarcastically suggesting France has "enough old iron" already—likely referencing competing resource claims between allies. Overall: homefront complaints about shortages, inflation, conscription, and inter-allied tensions.
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An Effect of the Labor Shortage The Manageress—Johnny! Johnny! Leave off cleaning out them pig-stics, and nip up to the bakehouse and bring two loaves of bread, quick!—Passing Show (London). Consternation in a Tea-Shop ‘ Customer—Bring me some war bread— 49. : f fee to Bs ‘ y doctor, but look at me! Everybody's T like it.—London Opinion. ‘ 3 i%| cutting me—thinks I’m a food hog! And 4 . me under treatment for loss of appetite! Sketch (London). The sad, fat man—I'm feeling all right, A War Bonus Brown—How much do I owe yt Boy—Tuppence-ha'penny, please, Sir. Brown—Oh! What's the ha’penny for? Boy—War bonus!—Passing Show (Lon- That Don’t Matter The one—They’ve took Mrs. Green’s tusband for the army. "he other—Took ‘im? Why, ’e’s got one the other. 3 —comme s‘il n'y avait pas / as; but that don’t matter, . John Bull—Ashearty welcome! Come in, — yer see, because the ground’s so uneven in Agai As if there wasn’t enough old mate.—Land and Water (London). France.—Tatler (London). iron here!'’—La Baionette (Paris).