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This July 1918 page from *Judge* magazine contains WWI-era military humor aimed at American soldiers and sailors. **"Them Record Cards"** is the main feature—a satirical monologue by a soldier named Buck complaining about repetitive army paperwork. The joke: each time he fills out identical questionnaires about his civilian job, he exaggerates more outrageously (claiming $7,000 yearly salary, naming Henry Ford and mayors as references) to seem more valuable for military assignments. The humor mocks both the army's bureaucratic inefficiency and soldiers' creative dishonesty to secure better positions. The smaller jokes mock military life's absurdities: a recruit's confusion about geography ("ain't we in France now?"), London's famous fog being inescapable, and "picket duty" referring to kitchen work picking chicken for officers. The page also includes period advertisements (Absorbine for foot pain) and a book advertisement about sexual knowledge—reflective of 1918 concerns about soldiers' health and morality. All humor reflects soldiers' real frustrations with army administration and deployment during the final year of World War I.

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J July 13, 1918 EN SERED 1 OE ES FUN FROM THE FIGHTERS. Good Things in Our Army and Navy Publications “ Did they play ‘ Free “Naw, they only played it f five minutes “Them Record Cards” M I Derar BU a. | Life in the army is just one darn blanck card to fill out after another. | Sins I bean her the compny klerk has had us march into the orderly room once a week egeler and anser a lot of kwestions. pretty soon if they don’t cut it out, they’l have me up for pur-jew-ry. a feller cant remember from time | to time what he sed in the last card. If some- body gets to komparing notes on mine, I'll | go to Elevenworth sure. The first time thev askt me what i did on the outside for a liveing,1 told them about mi last | job wich was conducktering on the woodaward_ | enew line, at thirty 8 cens a hour. bi and bi it got to be roomered around camp that a feller who could driv a car stood a better chanst to get ACROSS. so the 2nd time when it came to the kwestion what could i do, i made an awful boast as to how mutch i knew about motors. i claimed to bee a motorman and, sinst i come from Detroit where Hank Ford first put wheels on cans and called them au-to- mow-beels, i thought it would be refleckting on the home town if i didnt kno how to drive a ‘What every young man as Every young woman should know ‘What every your band and Every young wite should know What every parent should know car. from the statement i made to Corporal whiteshadel our compny klerk, barney oldtield has nothing on me. sins then i have bean told that the men with the best salarys before they inlisted got the best non-com jobs and went across first. so, the third time i came to bat on this kwestionary card bisness, i went on reckord as being in the motor endustry and makin $7,000 a yere be fore the war. to make it stronger when they asked names of next of kin, i gave Hennery ford, Mayor Marks and senitor Alldone Smith. also—the first two or three cards i filled out Preevyous militery experyence—none. _ sins bean told that the men with lots of militery traning get first whack at little old Hoboken peer i have clamed six yers in the national gard and drill master in a militery club. (the militery club is Detroit lodge 137 A. O. H.— and the only time we ever martched was Saint Patriks day.) otherwise not mutch news—exsept that i hav just bean told that we are to fall in and line up in front of the orderly room to fill out another card. BUCK Rapid Fire”, U. S. Proving Ground, deen, Md. Aber- Fatty’s First Shot aust Maybe He Was See-Sick A negro recruit in one of the casualty com- panies listened with deep interest to a lecture the other evening. “When you get to France,” the speaker But the negro boy interrupted him: “ boss, ain’t we in France now, I'se rode tw from home, already?”—Trench and Camp. aid lays Those London Fogs “ How did you find the weather in London?” asked a friend of a tar who had been across. “You don’t have to find the weather in London,” said he. “It bumps into you at every corner.’ —The Broadside. Picket Duty ‘0 your son is in the army, is he?” on picket duty.”” “Picket duty? What does that consist of?” ‘Why, you see, he wuks in de kul'nel’s kitchen and every time de kul’nel wants chicken AMERICAN PUB. COMPANY, 709 Winsteo Buds. Philadelphia fo’ dinnah mah boy has to pick it.”—Trench and Camp. | eer cc ce ne seme mn nee arc, Real Help for Tired Feet A busy day and on your feet most of the time—a long, tiresome trip or a hike in the country —new shoes to break in—all these mean tired feet. Soothe and rest them by } applying a few drops of Or, if you are very tired and your feet burn, ache or swell, soak them in a solution of Absorbine, Jr., and water. Relief will be prompt and lasting. You will like the “feel” of this clean, fra- fran and antiseptic liniment t penetrates quickly, leaves no greasy residue and is intensely re- freshing. Onlyafewdrops needed todo the work, as Absorbine, Jr., is highly concentrated. Keep a bottle handy at home, at the office, oF in your grip when travelling $1.25 a bottle at most ‘Send 10 for Liberal Trial Bottle o procure a regular size bottle from your druggist today W. F. YOUNG, P. D. F. 215 Temple St., Springfield, M: Reversion to Tripe The fellow who used to carry a finger-nail file in his upper left-hand vest pocket now uses both hands when he eats his meat.— Stars and Stripes. —Seventh The Green Hat Cord Lady visitor—Is that green hat cord to indi- cate an Irish regiment? He—No, mum; that’s the poison brigade Lady visitor—Poison brigade? Me—Sure, green cooks.—Trench and Camp (Continued on next Page Distinetive, Unu ram, Crest, Rolled and with Your Mono- Ogi Mgt on the Cigarette ‘Kr éuat Gite tor Any Oceatio! ine Yor $2.25 FP $5.25 $10 Lo Order style of menegram by number, Pett negra: sen All Shipments in Plain Packages, Insured and Pre, MARMAY MFG. CO., Dept. K, 136 S. 4th, Phil comicbooks.com