Judge, 1918-03-23 · page 4 of 32
Judge — March 23, 1918 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three distinct satirical pieces: 1. **"Notion Counter"** by Douglas Malloch: A humorous essay critiquing various national characteristics—Germans, Southerners, opera singers, and Americans generally. It's observational social satire rather than political. 2. **Top cartoon** (by H.B. McCrackan): Titled "Dependents, Mr. Duck? No—flat feet," depicting a duck with ducklings. The joke plays on "dependents" as tax/financial obligations versus the duck's flat feet (a WWI military exemption reason), suggesting the duck avoids responsibilities. 3. **Bottom cartoons** (by Hamilton Williams): "Semper Idem" shows transit scenes satirizing urban rudeness and public behavior—the batpin reference and knitting needle suggest women defending themselves in crowded transit, reflecting period concerns about civility and safety. The page reflects early 20th-century American anxieties about urbanization and social manners.
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Notion Counter By Dovctas Mattocn O wonder the poet who wrote “Beauti- ful Snow” concealed his identity. The government will soon float a loan, and so will our sidewalk. About the only way to get there on time is to take a slow train. The ‘‘business —, > chances” that are adver- — Draven by Il. B. McCreary tised are as nothing to Dependents, those that are taken. No—fiat feet One reason why the American people are just begin- ning to think is because first they had to do a whole lot of unthinking Germany Paris. The Southern gentleman wants the ice in his glass not in his rivers. I envy the opera singer. In the other arts you have to be good, but in opera the management merely needs to say you are. When meat and potatoes are served for dinner, I know when we three shall meet again. is far from licked, but it is also far from Draten by Hasuvtos Wituiasts SEMPER Once it was the hatpin that unmanned us daily in the rapid transit Free-for-alls. Many a woman whose husband doesn’t come home for supper thinks her husband doesn’t love her, when what he doesn’t love is hash. Unfortunately when a man sets out to right a great wrong the first thing he does is to write a book They are still digging for the man who wanted a good, old-fashioned winter. I am going on a spea ing tour through Texas in if I have good luck, and Texas hasn't. On the Lake Shore Limited diner the other day there was a lady who was perfectly gowned. Then she began pulling soup toward herself with a spoon and the $175 worth of drygoods were all for naught. One advantage of the literary occupation is that one can work at it on trains, in hotel rooms,’ anywhere. That is also its great disadvantage. There is only one place I can think ‘of where it probably hasn’t snowed this winter. It takes forty men to keep one aeroplane in action. It isn’t the first cost, it’s the upkeep. Mr. Duck? The stamp of character is the thrift stamp. Ipem But that barbarity being howled down, Lo! the knitting needle sets us quivering once more.