Judge — December 22, 1917 — page 4: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains satirical commentary on World War I-era politics and society. The main article "War Gods" mocks how modern nations (particularly Germany) have created idealized, propagandistic images of military leadership—contrasting mythology's war gods with reality's bureaucratic "small, slim gentlemen" in striped trousers. The right column contains brief satirical items about wartime conditions: churches conserving fuel, President Wilson's Washington being full of people who "know things that are not so," high war taxes on wealthy industrialists like William Waldorf Astor, and proposals to give returning soldiers farms. The cartoon "Over the Top" depicts a figure standing atop a globe, likely representing militaristic ambition or German expansionism during WWI. The overall tone criticizes both military romanticism and wartime government inefficiency and excess.