Judge, 1917-09-08 · page 2 of 28
Judge — September 8, 1917 — page 2: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
The left page features a WWI-era recruitment appeal titled "To Our Soldiers and Sailors." The cartoon shows two military figures (a captain and sailor) in conversation, with the caption suggesting one has lost a friend and must leave to care for his widow. The accompanying editorial text explains Judge's purpose: to boost soldiers' and sailors' morale by publishing humor from their experiences. The magazine frames wartime jokes as psychologically valuable—helping men cope with combat's brutality through laughter. The right page's contents list shows this issue mixes patriotic messages with typical satirical content (domestic humor, commentary on suffrage and social issues). This reflects Judge's dual role in 1917: supporting the war effort while maintaining its satirical traditions.
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To Ou Soldiers an Sailors Captain—Well, Smithers, what is it? You look as if you'd lost your last friend. Pricate Smithers —If you please, sir, I must have leave of absence. My wife writes me that her heart is breaking and the rof is leaking, and for me to come right away ome a x it. Se ed AR is a fierce business, but it has its humors. any of the jests it develops are grim, and most of them are as definite as the explosion of a bomb or the crack of shrapnel. Thousands of jokes have come from the decks, from the field and from the trenches. They epitomize experiences that try men’s souls, and show the reaction to sanity. And the greatest relief the soldier or the sailor finds in the strenuous life he leads is in reading, at odd moments, the happier magazines sent to him by those back home who realize his need for relaxatil JUDC ishes to encourage in our soldiers and sailors the habit of humor, and thus invites from them the jests and “wheezes’’ that spring from their active experiences on shipboard, in camp, at the front and in the trenches. JUDC ill pay its customary rates for anything acceptable of this sort and will forward to such contributors copies of the magazine containing their efforts. And JUD will give each soldier and sailor personal credit for his work. Where the jests are susceptible of illustration, they will be handed to artists competent to picture them. — And if it should happen that the soldier or the sailor himself discloses illustrative talent, that talent will be encouraged for the gratification of the amateur artist and the entertainment of JUDGE'S half million of readers. a a SEND IN YOUR WORK, BOYS a a ed JUDGE 225 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK Vol. LXXIII September 8, 1917 No. 1873 any Humorous Publication in America Now Has the Largest Circulation of | Judge c Oo N T E N T S Cover Design: The Flower of the Family - - - C.H. TAFFS A Motion Picture Drawn by EMIL FLOHRI Editorials: The Habit of Glibness—Sixes and Sevens A Pacifist - - - - Drawn by DAVID ROBINSON Movie-Madness—- - - CLINTON SCOLLARD Horse Sense - - - - - STRICKLAND GILLILAN Inalienable Rights - - - - - - E.O0.J. Remodeled to Suit Tenant = - - Drawn by C. W. ANDERSON To-Day a F - - - Drawn by ORSON LOWELL Adventures with a Wife - - CHESTERTON TODD ALBERT E. HOYT Drawn by F. L. FITHIAN - H. M. D. WALT MASON ALBERT E. HOYT - LAWTON MACKALL JOHN E. DOLSEN Altruism - At Bowdoin College - - - i Answers to Inquirers - - - - Bs The Pose - - - - - “Talk United States” Universal Service - - - * Mistake Discovered - - - = Loaded - - - - - Drawn by RODNEY THOMSON The Things He Ought to Know - - - MAX MERRYMAN Between Curtains - - - - - CYRIL ANDREW The Modern Woman: Suffrage Facts and Fancies ANNA CADOGAN ETZ What's in a Name? - - - - CLINTON SCOLLARD As Things Seem - - - STRICKLAND GILLILAN The Inquisitive Songster - - - TENNYSON J. DAFT Mrs. Clatterby “Would Do Her Bit” = - - - J. L. HARBOUR Judge's Artistic Alphabet ANDREW ARMSTRONG The Extra Eye - - - - A Fable of a Fool = - - - - - DIXON MERRITT The Conductor = - - - - - STUART W. KNIGHT Foreign Humors of the War, With the College Wits, Passing the Mustard. and Jest and Verse by His Honor's Humorists Additional Drawings and Decorations by C. W. Kahles, Westmacott, Calvert, Norman Anthony, Flohri, Charles Sarka, Miller, and others ee ——————————SaaaqaEa—'"- Judge is printed by the Schweinler Press | | |