Judge — October 19, 1918 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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hRDITORLAL Comment Crave aud Gay on Things as They Pang Hux Humor ann Honeyep Propacanna TRANGE are the workings of the Teuton mind! The latest example of German propagan- dist idiocy is reported by a correspondent with the American army in Lorraine. This time the propaganda poison takes shape as an alleged humorous weekly called American Europe. Its an- the spreading of “good fellowship The editor admonishes his readers to “taddress all communications to the American in Europe Company, Frankfort,” but he fails to give the exact mail route by which he may be reached through the Hindenburg Line. An advertisement of current theatrical performances in the German city invites the attendance of American soldiers. They will accept the invitation in a body, some day soon, and bring their guns with them. This propagandist sheet is printed in English and is filled with humorous paragraphs and biting cartoons obviously selected for the purpose of destroying our existing cordial relations with our French and English Allies. Copies are re nounced purpose among all nations is read to a frazzle a few hours after its arrival,” is the universal testimony of officers, men and camp librarians. Jupce jis an individual and powerful factor in the intenarte of the high morale of our fighting forces The cheerful soldier is the victorious soldier and we conceive it our privilege and duty to provide by means of text and picture that quality of good cheer and whole- some humor which most appeals to the alert American mind. No reader of Jupce, soldier, sailor or civilian, can ever be fooled for an instant by the wiles of our con- temptible contemporary beyond the Rhine. AND SEVENS Six a UR cause,” says Admiral Von Hintze, “is an exalted one.” So was Haman’s position on the gallows he built for Mordecai. . * * Congress is no place for men with limber tongues attached to limburger consciences. o 8 Before you kick on larly sent over the Ame: can lines by means of small balloons. None but a German could imagine this clumsy scheme as affecting the intelligent American fighting man with any other emotion than amused contempt. The Teuton comic paper is comic in more ways than its publishers rea The dominantly ular humorous weekly in the American Army and Navy, both at home and abroad, is Jupce. Thou- sands of copies are sent “Over There” every week, many of them find- ing their way to the ac- tual fighting line. The clamor from France is for more and yet more copies of Jupce. At home the same cry comes from all the great Army Camp and Naval Sta- tions. Drawn by Mente Jouxsox “very copy of Jupce paying a tax on your occupation stop and think what you'd pay if it were a German occu- pation. Every day we hear of another converted in- dustry. Bryan never pected to live to see Uncle Octopus hitting the sawdust trail eee Women have so in- vaded all the standard trades that pedestrians stick to the center of the town, for fear there may be a burglar in the out- skirts. o 2 Dry belt Canadians smuggled booze in pack- ages labeled “electric fixtures.” Masters of diction, as well as fiction. Electric fixtures—things you get lit up with, as it were. “Snake?” comicbooks.com