Judge, 1918-06-08 · page 10 of 36
Judge — June 8, 1918 — page 10: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This Judge magazine page contains two distinct elements: **Top cartoon strip** (by "Zim"): Shows a soldier maintaining military routines—endurance drills, rifle practice, trench duty, air raid exercises, bayonet charges—before departing for overseas deployment in World War I. The humor lies in the contrast between the rigorous, repetitive nature of camp life and the soldier's casual "Hello! Goodbye!" upon returning home, suggesting the absurdity of intense preparation for departure. **"Shrapnel and Things" essay** (by Benjamin De Casseres): A satirical philosophical meditation on how different nations approach life during WWI. It characterizes France's war as "holy," Germany's as "wholly," then offers witty personifications (Hope has a double chin; Patience was born gray-headed) before concluding with national stereotypes about how each country conceptualizes life—France as art, Germany as science, America as business, Russia as funeral, etc. The satire critiques both the war's absurdity and national character stereotypes circulating at the time.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
peak YDURANG a op Tee ea aS % F veons £ VER TH BAREED ENTANGIES SMENTS oy FF. Bayonet Charge. LernG. AIR RAID EXERCISES Oo } reece 2use a NATURAL AS Guaro Duty CAMP MEASLES, IN FIRST LINE 8 TRENCHES. ne Drawn by Zim Private Hunks Keers Up tue Rov or Came Lire Wien He Returns Home to Say “Hetto!—Gooppy!” Berore Emparkinc ror Overseas SHRAPNEL AND THINGS By Benjamin De Casseres ITH France it is a holy war; with Germany it is Great epigrams are the gleaming bayonets in the W wholly war. Grand Army of Ideas. On the western Hope has a double chin. front the way of the trans- = Sry oth. ay Realization has long ears. gressor is barred. t \ y Lett le Patience was born gray- So long as the Russian : SiG headed. Expectation is peasant gets his land he = . “ f twelve-fingered. — Yester- does not care what Ger- 4 *° day has false teeth. To- man makes the laws. Q q : morrow’s face is rouged. The laboratories of Kul- . py =. : To-day is blind. Serious- tur have become morgues. a bi = ness is thin-lipped. Hap- ‘This is not a war; itisa ae \ \\) piness has one eye. Pros- revolution for liberty. i 7 ‘perity has a hook-nose. In 1914 all German : = =f Care limps. clocks were set backward it , France makes of life an toconformto Turkish time. Z js \ art. Germany makes of In Europe suffering has Sv life a science. England become one of the fine arts. oF Z makes of life a conquest The Dove of Peace will & . f ey America makes of life a summer on an iceberg. - Sy ts business. Russia makes The Wheel of the Rus- of life a funeral. Italy sian revolution is without @ - = = makes of life a gorgeous hub or tire—it is all polyphonic, polychromatic spokes—men. GORI Iawoon” mess. ‘Turkey makes of life A house is just a house; ~Yes, dear, if , nihaveraine abaret. Mexico makes but when a child enters, it fae eels ee F ¥ sow san ave 22S" of life a cockfight. China becomes a home. —Is that the truth, Mother, or are you just speaking German. — makes of life a pipe bowl.