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# Analysis of Judge Magazine, August 17, 1918 This page celebrates American soldiers in World War I through allegorical imagery. The top illustration depicts Liberty (a classical female figure with a trumpet) inspiring soldiers advancing into battle with rifles and bayonets fixed. The accompanying text, "All Good Fellows," uses the French phrase "Très-bons Garçons!" ("fine fellows") to praise American troops. It characterizes them as embodying American ideals—strength, courage, health, and optimism—drawn from diverse backgrounds (shops, mines, farms, mansions). The rhetoric romanticizes military service, portraying soldiers as noble "Olympians of the West" who represent America's moral superiority over Europe. Published during the final months of WWI, this represents wartime propaganda celebrating American intervention and soldier sacrifice.
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| i AUG 151918 Coesarz726 Volume 75 $5.00 a Year ear sy rk New York, Aucust 17, 1918 Atwexr Iexcne ALL GOOD “FTVRES-BONS GARGONS!” That phrase is heard everywhere in France today. Translated colloquially, it means ne Fellows!” It is the halloo, the greeting of France to the American soldiers, our boys in khaki. A million of these New Americans are walking French soil. And behind them rise millions and millions more, captained by Columbia. “Trés-bons Gargons!” indee They are the soul visible of all America. They incarnate our Will. Vhey loom over the rotten dynasties of Europe like a menace. They are the Attilas of redemption. They are en route to a New World erected on the ruins of the Old World of our geographies. If any of us has thought lightly of Ame before this war—and many of us have look at Those Boys. Men from the roofs of their skulls to the soles of their feet. This war is a revelation of the spirit. It is a lightning flash that revealed the souls of the nations one to another. In this revealing one has but to look at Our Boys to see the soul of America. Strength, courage, health, optimism, idealism blaze from their their muscles, their pores. The flower of the loins of America, these men are Invincible Will incarnate. Number 1922 10 Cents a Co. FELLOWS We were not all bread and butter, after all. We were something more than a land of Barnums, rai ways and Stock Exchanges. An Idea has enthroned us. A sublime impulse has transfigured us. Ask the Londoners, the Parisians, the Italians what they see when the khaki legions sweep past them on the road to the Front. It is a magical awakening to them, as it is to us. They are awed. They behold through their tears and their hosannahs a Soul Awake. Athletic, ideal- istic America in arms. The sons of Washington, Grant and Lee, titanic and fearless, arisen as if by the bidding of a fairy’s wand. These are not slaves driven to an Emperor's slaughter party, but a People aroused to the quick = of their natures by the pretenses of a race of bombastic paranoiacs. Beneath the khaki of our army, beneath the blue and the white of our sailor lads there are a heart, a brain and a purpose. They know how to obey because they know why they obey. Out of the shops, out of the mines, out of the mansions of the rich, up from the farm—it is the morale of America, vital, indomitable, unconquerable America that Europe senses. It is a spectre made real. “Trés-bons Garcons!”” They are the Olympians of the West! comicbooks.com