Judge, 1918-03-09 · page 4 of 36
Judge — March 9, 1918 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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This is part of a series satirizing pacifists during World War I. The image shows a large pipe transformed into an airship dropping bombs. The caption describes Willie Bonehead (a generic everyman name) falling asleep while smoking, then dreaming his pipe becomes a warship that carries him over France behind enemy lines to dump him unceremoniously. The joke targets pacifists' anxieties about war—suggesting their peaceful desires are naive fantasy. The pipe-as-weapon imagery implies pacifists' avoidance of military conflict is absurd and dangerous. The satire mocks pacifists for what Judge's editors viewed as cowardly or treasonous opposition to American military involvement, a common theme in WWI-era propaganda.
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The Nightmares of a Pacifist—No. 2 role of an airship and carries him over to France, back of the firing line, there to dump him unceremoniously, Willie Bonehead is compelled to acknowledge that his slacker’s conscience is at work, tormenting him, even in a pipe dream. | ‘ALLING asleep while smoking his favorite pipe, which suddenly assumes the comicbooks.com