Judge, 1917-11-10 · page 14 of 28
Judge — November 10, 1917 — page 14: what you’re looking at
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This two-part cartoon critiques American home-front mobilization during World War I (likely 1917-1918). **"Home Revisited"** depicts a man returning from vacation to find his entire household—wife, daughters, sons, and even the refrigerator—conscripted to war efforts. The Red Cross, military nursing, hospital work, and Herbert Hoover's food conservation program have emptied his home. The joke's bitter edge: only his servant remains, offering rainwater instead of meals. It satirizes how thoroughly WWI had absorbed American civilian life and resources. **"In a New York Hotel"** catalogs urban depravity allegedly flourishing while citizens sacrifice: corrupt senators, embezzling financiers, seduction, drunkenness, and vice pervade every floor—culminating in "suicides being committed" and "murders being planned" on upper levels. Together, these mock the gap between patriotic civilian sacrifice and the unchecked corruption and hedonism of the wealthy and powerful who profit from war.
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WHERE THE “Strange! He's the only idle man in all Bab: of Babel.” HOME REVISITED { Considerable Spelt after Wortnworth HE MAN who had been on a some- what protracted vacation returned suddenly. As he walked up to the house he noticed that the place looked deserted. But his colored man was sweeping up the piazza. “Wife home, Sam?” “No, sah. She's at de Red Cross meeting.” “Where's my eldest daughter?” “She sailed for France yesterday, sah Going to nuss the boys in the trenches.”” “And my youngest daughter?” “Doing hospital work in Indiana, sah. Went last week.” “Boys home?” “Dey done went a month ago, sah.” “ Anything to eat in the house?” “No, sah. But won't you have a drink of nice water, sah?” “No thanks, Sam. Couldn’t scrape upa few scraps in the refrigerator, could you?” “No, sah. Refrigerator shipped to hospital, sah. But dis water am fine.” “No flour in the house?” Not a drop, sah.” “Any canned goods left?” “Only one can of soup yesterday, sah, and Mars Hoover he done send for “He did. but he sublet it. dat. Better try some of dis superior water, sah. Quench yo’ thirst.” “Look here, Sam; where did you get that water?” “Well, you see, sah, it rained dis mornin’.”” —Chesterton Todd. IN A NEW YORK HOTEL In the Lobby: United States Senators being inter- viewed. Malefactors of great touched. Out - on - bail trust magnates being sleuthed. Process servers being dodged. In the Bar: Automobile tourists being noisy. Real estate sharks being eloquent. Wall Street foxes being persuasive. Western buyers being pickled. In the Grill Room: Jazz bands being extra tuncless. Men-about-town being bored. bout-to-buy being encouraged. pout-broke being bilious. In the Moorish Tea Room: Lounge lizards being criticised. Lunch hounds being pleasant to dinner givers. Flippant flappers being fox-trotted. wealth being ylon, and I thought he got the contfact to build the tower Heavy female dreadnoughts being neglected. In Peacock Alle) Society women being haughty. Battle actresses being brazen. Movie queens being vampirish. Mere women being shocked. Elsewhere: First floor—Banquets being given. Second floor—Weddings being solem- nized. Third floor—Suffragette meetings be- ing held. Fourth floor—Débutantes’ balls being staged. Fifth floor—Brewers’ conventions be- ing pulled off. Sixth floor—Thé dansants being hop- ped. Seventh floor—Wrestling bouts being faked. Eighth floor—Charity concerts being sung. Ninth floor—Suicides being committed. The roof—Murders being planned. —Harvey Peake. No Good Alone “The pen is mightier than the sword!” “Isn't it about time the ink got a little of the credit?” comicbooks,com