Judge, 1918-07-20 · page 11 of 32
Judge — July 20, 1918 — page 11: what you’re looking at
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This page from *Judge* magazine contains WWI-era political satire. The top cartoon by Calvert Smith humorously advises employers to pay servants promptly on payday. The main article "Periscopes and Persimmons" by Benjamin De Casseres offers caustic aphorisms about the war. Key targets include: - **Germany's imperial ambitions**: Mocking the Kaiser's "self-determination" rhetoric as merely extending his own dominance, and his desire for global territorial conquest ("place in the sun"). - **American political figures**: "Colonel House" (Woodrow Wilson's advisor) is dismissed as giving meaningless rhetoric. - **The Russian Revolution**: Portrayed as hastily improvised ("started...on a New York shoestring"), suggesting it lacked proper planning or resources. The scattered "Horrors" vignettes appear to be brief wartime anecdotes. Throughout, the tone is darkly cynical about the war's duration and outcome, reflecting American frustration with the conflict's continuation and scale.
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Draen by Cauvenr Ssutn Hints to Peorte Pay well and pros ly when they cal Wuo Hire Servants | the first of the month for their sal. PERISCOPES AND PERSIMMONS By Benjamin al ig Pacifist is the sleeping sentinel of the great war. Napoleon to William:—Nothing fails like success in Russia. Cheer up!—there is a bright side to every pleasure. Don’t slop-over too much — ring is no good in the trenches. It’s a great life if you know how and when to weaken. Some minds open like a ——— fan, and some think along the stick. The gods buried in the trenches between the stars are | merely sniping at the human race. ' It is a pity that we cannot warn the Martians of the plans of the Pan-Germanic League. Not but hoz will it end? is the only question for an enemy of the Beast. “Some day I am going to—” is the careless papa of guddenty puddenly. the | that. melancholy kid, “It — euard— might have been!” Officer teething- 4 Oficer—The struge! Wattek Vax Aspare vhen will the war end, Horrors Yes—yes— Go on— ‘We heard a guard bawl, “Battery Place, all o De Casseres To-day, it’s a wise invention that knows its own father. “Self-determination” of nations in Germany means that the Kaiser is to be the Self end of the compound word. Germany not only wants “a place in the sun,” but she wants to browse around under the Midnight Sun as well. Our lives are the fifth car- bon copy of our hopes. ome women are born slaves, others achieve slavery, and nearly all have the ballot thrust upon them. If the Spirit of Liberty ever descends on Germans it will have a regular barbed wire time. A German “peace drive” reminds one of a gambler who hurries to cash in before the police break in. Introducing Colonel House, who will give a split-second talk. The trouble with the Rus- sian revolution is that it was started, literally, on a New York shoestring. e struggling the reeking distance we heard a comicbooks.com