Judge, 1918-10-05 · page 8 of 32
Judge — October 5, 1918 — page 8: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page **"The Baggage Congestion"** depicts domestic humor: a husband reluctantly retrieving his wife's vanity bag from a trunk—satirizing the burden of spousal demands during wartime. **"A Labor Problem"** mocks shipyard hiring discrimination. A job applicant of mixed heritage (Esquimau and South Sea Islander parents) is rejected for sheep-herding, then offers goat-feeding instead—absurdist humor about arbitrary hiring practices and labor shortages during WWI ship construction. **"A Jarring Retort"** uses wordplay to mock German Kaiser Wilhelm II's emphasis on "Kultur" (culture/civilization): Uncle Sam promises to can-preserve German kultur, implying it will be destroyed/eliminated. **"The German Mark"** is a patriotic poem contrasting Germany's currency collapse with Americans' claim that German honor and integrity have fallen even further. **"Not Accountable"** jokes about military rank insignia confusion: a reserve officer mistakenly addresses a colonel as an aviator based on shoulder insignia, then awkwardly explains his recent enlistment. **"A List to Porte"** contains a pun: the German Ambassador offending Ottoman leader Enver Pasha, with wordplay on "ottoman" (furniture). All content reflects WWI-era American sentiment.
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Drawn by W.O. Witsox Tue Baccace Concestion Snapshot of a man whose wife directed him to get her vanity bag out of her trunk A Labor Problem By F. M. Curtis to the shipyards, and applied for a job. The man in the office asked me a lot of questions; among others, he asked me what nationality my parents were. I told him my mother was an Esquimau, and my father a Sea Islander. He said, What can you do?” “Herd sheep,” I s. “Sorry, we can’t use you.” I went outside, and as I stopped to light my pipe I heard him say toanother man, “Good God! I have had tailors, barbers, actors and prize fighters apply for a job, but I guess I’ve reached the limit. A man wants to work on the ships that can do nothing but herd sheep!” lopened the door, and said, “Yes, I can do something else; I can feed goats.” A Jarring Retort “Kultur,” the kaiser said, “must be Preserved on sea and land!" “Preserved?” said Uncle Sam. “Not sol Ere long I'll have it canned!” “ARING that the Government needed men to build ships, and was paying big wages, I went Drawn by A. Macnereat on your shoulder The. German Mark By Kexseru L. Ronerts HE value of the German mark Goes down and ever down Its worth is half of what it was When Mars began to frown; But down it still must ¢ The reach of human eyes eyond Where German honor lies. The German mark is very low; But miles and mile: In point of depth, lies German faith, Integrity, fair play. The Germ. But not to that degree That marks the drop in German truth And German chivalry away Not Accountable A reserve second lieutenant walked up to a colonel in the lobby of a depot in a southern city and addressed him with the following remark: “Hello, how do you like being an aviator?” The colonel looked puzzled and asked, eLamanaviator?” “Oh, that’s easy,” replied the licu- tenant, “I could tell by the insignia the wings, you know.” “Tam sorry, but I am only a colonel.” The young lieutenant blushed, stammered and explained that he merely was a reserve officer and had been ‘in the army only since the war started. “What leads youto beli A List to Porte “It says here that the German Ambassador has offended Enver Pasha.” “Perhaps he tried to sit on the Ottoman, what?” it can reach the unplumbed depths mark has dropped, in truth, comicbooks.com