Judge, 1918-04-27 · page 7 of 36
Judge — April 27, 1918 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains anti-German propaganda from America's involvement in World War I. The content mocks German leadership and culture through biting wordplay and caricature. **Key targets:** - **The Kaiser** (German Emperor Wilhelm II): Described as "cream of Tartars" and ridiculed for burning books, his subjects, and submarines being "full to overflowing" - **Crown Prince**: Dismissed as so naturally caricature-like his portrait needs no exaggeration - **Sauerkraut/German culture**: Sarcastically called "Kultur" - **Nicholas Romanoff** (Russian Tsar): Called "Hobo," reflecting his 1917 abdication **The satire's points:** Germany is financially exhausted ("bled yellow"), militarily unsustainable, and morally bankrupt. The top illustration of separated lovers receiving flowers via "aerial service" (bombing raids) darkly jokes about wartime destruction. This represents typical American wartime satirical journalism—crude, propagandistic, designed to boost morale and dehumanize the enemy through mockery and wordplay.
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Special Aerial Service. approach the earth these days. of German | vie comets are wearing gas-masks as they When the American tidal-wave finally hits Europe the German boardwalk from Ostend to Holland will collapse like a dream. Germany is bled yellow. A Kaiser is known by the books he burns. The Kaiser's subjects and his submarines are both full to over- flowing. The Crown Prince is one of the few men whose portrait will also serve as a caricature. Nicholas Romanoff: Ecce Hobo! Here’s to Marse Henry, who writes with a sword! Sauerkraut is the aroma of Kultur. For Separatep Lovers Flowers picked in the South today delivered in the North tomorrow SH RAPN By Benjamin De C. Drawn by Warren Joxes Back of the lines in my bridle, In the damp of a dawn red Scemingly slouchy and idle, But really a dewing my bit. Puzzle: find the jewel of humanity in the haystack scholarship. The Kaiser is the cream of ‘Tartars. Russia has become a Tower of Babble. Some kings are born to the purple, some achieve the yellow, and others have the whitewash thrust upon them. The first job of a people's Reichstag will be to strip the court plaster from the German nation. War, the ruling passion strong in debt. Beware of the Teuton when he comes with camov-flat- tery. The Kaiser’s press agent for twenty-five years has camera- flaged the world.