Judge, 1918-03-16 · page 13 of 38
Judge — March 16, 1918 — page 13: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains three satirical pieces reflecting early 20th-century anxieties: **"Pessimisms"** offers cynical one-liners mocking modern life—comparing gasoline cans to horses, suggesting worms lack ambition, and implying industrial progress creates meaningless labor (wearing a wristwatch as "manual labor"). **"Another Matter"** depicts rural hillbilly dialect humor common to the era, showing backwoods folk casually discussing shooting at relatives over money debts, with indifference to violence. **"A Miracle of the Future"** satirizes resource scarcity by imagining coal and sugar as precious commodities by 2001—extrapolating current anxieties about depleted resources. The final cartoon's caption ("how much does it cost to send a bomb to Germany?") references World War I, depicting a child's innocent question about wartime costs, highlighting the period's militarization. The overall tone reflects pre-WWI American skepticism about progress, modernity, and industrialization.
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Drawn by Orson Lowett Reapinc Between THE Lines Pessimisms Another Matter By H. I. Horton By Tom P. Morgan FTER all, it was the snake that made Eden “HAY, looky yur, you long-coupled, murdering son-of-a- famous. wolf!” yelled Mr. Gap Johnson, of Rumpus Ridge, Ark. The gasoline can is mightier than the horse “Are you shooting at my dogs, over there in the shade?” doctor. “Nope!” replied the offender. “Shooting at your brother- The dove of peace has the biggest job ever cut out _ in-law, over beyond the dogs. He owes me five dollars, and—” for a bird. “That so? Looks sorter like rain, don’t it?” The worm turned and then it turned back and went to sleep. “They don’t need me,” he said, “as it is a wormless day.” The nearest some men ever come to doing manual labor is to wear a wrist watch. Any man who ran for office on a no sugar platform would have a sweet time. The prodigal son was moved to end his joy ride and return to the family vine, fig tree and larder, but he hesi- : tated, as his visions of the fatted calf Z LINE FORMS, were troubled by the thought, “It THIS SIDE would be just my luck to get back on a —— vealless day.” A Miracle of the Future By Benjamin De Casseres “IN 2001,” says an extract from the Nova Zembla Mirror of October 24, 2099, “‘a rare substance called coal was discovered in the ancient State of Pennsylvania. “A grain of coal rubbed against a grain of that other precious substance, sugar, produced an artificial steak, edible and even palatable. Science has never been able to solve this miracleof nature, nor even inform us as to the chemical ingredients of coal, sugar or steak. “A craze seized humanity at that time and people withdrew their radium deposits from bank and exchanged them for these rare substances, one instance being known of an Eskimo President who gave ten thousand disks Drawn by J. R. Suaver of radium for a single grain of coal His Gift and six atoms of sugar.” “Say, Mister, how much does it cost to send a bomb to Germany?” comicbooks.com XUM