Judge, 1918-05-18 · page 11 of 36
Judge — May 18, 1918 — page 11: what you’re looking at
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This is a humor column with two distinct elements: **Upper section:** Anecdotal jokes about small-town characters. The opening story satirizes WWI-era paranoia: a stranger in a soldier uniform accuses grocer Bill Waite of being "pro-German" merely for offering tobacco—mocking the hysteria and suspicion surrounding German sympathizers during the war. **Lower cartoon:** Political commentary on the war. It depicts an Austrian and American eagle in dialogue. The Austrian boasts of capturing forty Germans single-handedly, expecting military honors. The American replies sardonically that the Austrian probably just wanted a cigarette and found none on the captured soldiers—mocking Austria-Hungary's exaggerated war claims and suggesting their soldiers lack basic supplies. The overall page reflects 1918-era American attitudes: domestic paranoia about German sympathizers alongside skepticism of allied nations' military propaganda.
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Egg View Notes By Leste Van Every STRANGER in one A of them there brown soldier suits was in Bill Waite’s grocery Mon- day afternoon, so Bill, who has been reading up, ——— reached onto a shelf and gave him a choice package of tobacco, which the stranger tried, and then accused Bill of being pro- German. Ambrose Crosslots says: “Some folks who git bap- tized dry off too quick.” Tink Nitz, who bought an expert high grade red and green fishing bobber in Pollywog last week, held it in a barrel yesterday to see how it looked under water. Corny Paine thinks that rail can’t be done with Drawn by Barkspate Rocers Captured forty germans. single- handed. Now he'll get special mention and the war cross! 2 . I guess not! He just wanted a cigarette and they short-distance traveling by didn’t have a one on them! fom’s the lucky guy! blowed for Egg View before he could get his shoes off. Ote Gimber, and horse, who are moving a Mr. But- ton Edgin’s family fur- niture here from Spring Ledge, narrowly escaped getting into serious trouble in that town Tuesday after- noon. Ote was driving along astreet, when Button discovered that chairs and things werc losing out of the hind end of the wagon. Ote quickly decided that a prop was needed. As luck would have it, he looked at - the sideentrance to a build- ing close by, and sawa sign reading “Use this door.” Ote tried to, but couldn’t get it off of the hinges. The vigorous spring cam- paign for crushed stone roads, which started in cer- tain parts of this neighbor- hood a short time ago, is being bitterly opposed and much comfort. Friday morning, he returned home from discouraged by Pin Tossel, who claims that the high- Pollywog on the train, and reports that the engine by Joux Coxacuin ways would be rendered unfit for crops of any kind. The Austrian Eagle—Two heads are better than one. American Eagle—Until the morning after, Fritz. comicbooks.com