Judge — July 6, 1918 — page 27: what you’re looking at

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eS i eh anc eel antler n. ome own, = Military and Naval. Jupce pays $1 cach for original jokes sent by soldiers and sailors and accepted Jor publication, and each week $5 is awarded for the best original joke received The Hard-Boiled Sergeant LSS OSA An Apprehensive Mother By Senor. Gronar Hl. Ho Ry Por. J. Bussoise Haman, Editor Trench and Comp, Fort Ople WENTY years in the Army, an’ Enlisted Man, am I, Across my breast the colors rest where I've seen Old Glory fly On hand at the Boxer Party, and when F3 guinaldo ave in, "ve served in every Department; in Cuba and Tien Tsin. And Late years it's been Detached Service, kind of a cinch for a change; Rut today is findin’ me drillin’ and marchin’ the rookies to Range. My bunch is somewhat different from the bunch what used to be, When there was Billy Hare, from God knows where, an’ Sergeant Shay, an’ me. Everything Big mother: Drawn by C. 3. Dow, USN “Why aren't you in your hammock, Bud Aw. I can’t sleep in the dark Can't sleep in the dark? Why not “Ldunno. Guess I’m a light sleepe This Week's $5 Prize Winner The Veteran By Por. Peres A. Preepmas, 25ith Aero Squadron FEW months ago at Fort Slocum, N.Y. a new arrival was asked if he had any previow A “rookie” reached Fort Oglethorpe, Ga be inducted into the army. things he received was writing home that night he spoke of his inocula- tion in that way and a few days later his compa commander got the following telegram from his Drawn by Pace Haxsos, b thorpe, Ga. et Among the first “a shot in the arm.” In ny “Wire me immediately if George's shot in the arm is serious.” Why Not? ! Pov. tenon Sa vancerenr ARMA S. Transport "Ameren military experience, to which he replied in the af- See how green the water is! We're off the Irish | fimative. st now “Federal Army?” asked the clerk. j No, Salvation Army,” anscvered the recruit A Nice Distinction { “They sure have some bi: battleships!” But then, them days have gone by, and in the bunch that I've got now, There's lawyer guys an’ bankers an’ a lot of the High Money Ahead By Por. Sack Maxrz, 116th Engineers “Halt! The colored An order was recently issued for non-commis- sioned officers not to associate with privates. At the end of the month all the privates had money. The Blessings of an Imagination Brow. We're all the same an’ a-workin hard for Over There, you know. An’ the lawyer, with the banker, an’ me are “hocin’ our row.” T hear they call me a “roughneck,” "a “hard-boiled sergeant,” But look at the time since HOME was mine; I wonder what they'd do. Twenty years in the Army, an’ the best of care I've had, \ soldier man for Uncle Sam, say, Buddie, you bet I'm glad! Problematic By Jons K. Mourn, C: Battalion, Signal Corpe, Voice fromthe crowd around the od Depot F wash trough—Say, whose tecth were those I brushed? Prt. Jack Keanx, Cantonment Hdgrs, Detachment, Camp Upton, N.Y “ How the folks back home think he looks, and as he is.” “T’'se not goin’ Ry Jack Tawen, IL. A. 1, Naval Hospital, Annapolis, Md. The other night a sentry stopped a colored.) mess attendant and said: Who goes there?” son replied: | I’se comin’ back.” The Voice of Their Uncle Sam | Ry Puvare 0.3. Beatworn, U.S. Morine | Corps A green batch of recruits who had just come into camp the preceding night, were startled from their sound slumbers by the sonorous and insistent notes of the bugler blowing reveille. New to the game they had left their easy civilian life to play, none of the raw “rookies” stirred from their beds with the sole exception of a little south- ern lad from New Orleans, who sitting up in his cot rubbing his eyes, remarked to the sleeping forms around him, ou all bettah get up—dat ain’t yoh mothah callin’ you, boy, dat’ yoh now!” uncle taikin’ to you comicbooks.com