Judge, 1918-07-27 · page 13 of 36
Judge — July 27, 1918 — page 13: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
The cartoon depicts a military interaction between a white Colonel and a Black soldier ("Colored Rookie"). The Colonel complains about not receiving a salute; the soldier responds in exaggerated dialect that he's in a bad mood and wouldn't recognize his own mother. This reflects **early 20th-century racial stereotyping**. The cartoon uses: - Phonetic dialect spelling ("you-all," "Ah," "mothah") to demean the soldier - A caricatured premise that a Black soldier is insubordinate or emotionally unstable - The implication that military discipline doesn't apply equally The satire targets the *soldier's* behavior rather than critiquing segregation or racism—the cartoon assumes the audience will find humor in military insubordination framed through racial stereotypes. Below the cartoon, "Egg View News Notes" is local humor about a fictional town called Pollywog, featuring absurdist anecdotes unrelated to the cartoon. **Historical context**: This reflects the segregated U.S. military of the WWI era, when such racist depictions were common in mainstream publications.
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Drawn by Joux Conacuer Colonel—Well, Colored Rookie- man, why don’t you salute me? y you-all don’ wan’ t’ git "fended, Cunnel. Man, when Ah got a grouch on, Ah wouldn’ reconnise mah own mothah! Egg View News Notes By Leste Van Every IGHTNING struck a weed in Tink Nitz’s back yard last Wednesday. ‘Truman Bilge went to sleep on the merry-go- round Monday night. Muley Cannon’s boat having been stolen, the fish in Moon Lake are enjoying a much needed vacation. Sherm Spoor is teaching Myrt, his wife, the deaf and dumb language on her fingers for her to use when she goes fishing with him. Corny Paine, who ran over a pole-cat with his second- hand Pollywog automobile Monday night, hasn’t had to use his horn once since. Hank Mutt is now recovering at a high rate of speed from the fall he took several weeks ago while ne was up a tall tree taking a close look at an eclipse of the sun. Cylindra Berger, the author of several brilliant patent-medicine testimonials that have appeared in the Pollywog Plea, leaves this morning for a brief visit in Pollywog. She will travel incognito. Considerable commotion happened in the grocery store Wednesday afternoon, when Lem Bushnell, our marshal, dashed by bare-headed. Quite a crowd rushed out and followed him, expecting to see an exciting arrest, until it was discovered that he was only chasing his hat, which had blown off. Corny Paine drove his second-hand Pollywog auto- mobile so fast over a bump this morning, that Tink Nitz’s dog, who was with him, turned a somerset. A Pollywog high-grade made-to-order clothing agent, who was here yesterday, left a sample of his pants on Ote Gimber’s barbed-wire fence. comicbooks.com