Judge, 1918-06-22 · page 11 of 36
Judge — June 22, 1918 — page 11: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains two elements: a small cartoon sketch at top and a satirical poem below. The **cartoon** shows a street scene at a post office with a girl artist attempting to sketch a rough-looking man. The joke plays on "character"—she assumes his appearance reflects moral character, while the squire corrects her, implying the man is actually disreputable despite looking sturdy. **"Shrapnel"** is a collection of anti-German barbs written during World War I. De Casseres launches bitter attacks on Germany, the Kaiser, and Prussian militarism through sharp one-liners. Key targets include: German ambitions ("conquers the more room she'll have for cemeteries"), the Kaiser's authoritarianism and age, alleged German atrocities in Belgium, Prussian "Kultur," and German historical claims. References to Austria's hardship, Russian peace negotiations with Germany ("the Wolf"), and Bolshevism appear alongside mockery of German language and philosophy. The poem drips with American wartime propaganda sentiment.
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Pauren BEYAN'S Drawn by Water De Maris The Girl Artist—What a good character study! Do you suppose he would hold still while I sketch him? The Squire—Oh, he'd hold still all right, Miss, but you're SHRA lead wrong about the good character. PNEL By Benjamin De Casseres HE German people will not revolt till the medals and the manna give out. Austria is suffering from mal de sauerkraut. Wanted—the hunless German. : The more ground Germany conquers the more room she'll have for cemeteries. One more amendment will break the back of our national camel, the Constitution. Fiction repeats itself in fact—Little Red Riding Hood Russia opened peace negotiations with the Wolf. Where is the prison in which Germany can lock up the soul of France? The heir-apparent to the throne of Satan is a Ger- man chemist. The German language is the original mustard gas. Things not in German history: The Magna Charta, the fall of a Bastile, a Boston Tea Party. Kultur, from all reports, if not on its last legs, is almost barefoot. Of two evils, the Bolsheviki chose the Beast. The Kaiser owns the only clock in the world that runs a hundred years behind. In Germany, he who meditates is lost. Mankind must choose between improving or remaining German. In Belgium the Germans have revived the doctrine of the damnation of infants. If the war interferes with your business, cut out your business and enlist! Some day a venturesome historian will unearth the year 1913. The Kaiser will soon be sixty years ill. The individual withers and the Hun is more and more. Prussianism has invented a new form of mental activity—Creative Stupidity. Kings are doomed; Aces are trump. The Kaiser’s peace pleas show he is beginning to remember the future. comicbooks.com