Judge — November 2, 1918 — page 24: what you’re looking at

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Teat and Deck Wheezes Ltilicagy a Noval sailors and accepted soldiers a Juvce pays $1 each for original jokes ser , for publication, and each week $5 is acarded for tl original joke received F | i “Navy Blues” Before and After Stuff The Infantry—As Viewed by the Artillery . - Ry Pai ave J. Gouw as See gi Ky Awcuie Avotts Cosran 0, NRF seas Sem i wl a B hipped ec OF ‘0 the . A DEY shinee ne oauite tee: HE Infantry is the most vehemently ad ; Say ar Ores vertised lot in the army. In fact, some \ n I'd take it hard borders. And I should have kn To be kept in those cla It’s not that I mind t or pay, of the bunk {less noise to the left and righ Of the riveters and their junk It's not that the cold gets on my nerves, When my hand ened, he winter blast that shoot ‘ound the doeks all night—fire redder of our professional patriots will be startled to hear that there are other sections, such as the Quartermasters, Engineers, Field Signal and Artillery. From the day of joining the army to the day of discharge the blue of the Infantry always will be noticeable. The happy-looking soldier on the poster in front of the recruiting office wears a hat cord watch at night, are blue and de and curves 1 But it’s all of the crowd—the endless mobs 2 That hurry and bustle and whirl of Alice blue; the man who throws a pen I'm adrift in the midst of a thousand gobs at you for your final signature will sport a cord of the same color, Drawn by Cart. Views: Wiennam, Co, FP, 0nith Eng A.B But this is not definite proof that there arc Gvuaro Duty no others who are brave and have admiring And nary What Was Her Name? y Pury are Josern A.Semacn, USMC, Paris Leland. 8. friends at home. The Quartermaster boys Troop inspection requires that a fellow “doll nee a . . . would be missed three times a day, the Sani up” in spotless uniform and leggings, highly This Week’s $5.00 Prize Winner tary Train has a work as necessary to the army" polished shoes and a clean shave. Recently the His Orders welfare as a fur coat in Milwaukee society, commanding officer had almost completed his Paware Waiikis N. Ax od Be Medical Corps has a job as complex as the streets individual inspection when he came to Private Areny Seb of San Francisco, besides the numerous other Kirkpatrick. Kirk wore a pair of spotted trousers P : branches having adherents as staunch as those of that the C. O. noticed immediately the trench dwellers Are those trousers the best you hav There are as many different colored hat cords srufily asked 7 in the army as there are colors in an Arizona sir,” Kirk proudly replied. “I havea landscape, and each one means some division of cleaner pair I am keeping in reserve for special the Service trying to equal the infantryman in occasions.” notoriety. The doughboys a ned to inhale shrapnel fragments without sneezing, to throw red hot metal in the face of the approaching enemy, protect the artillery and trench mortar * he Some Shooter! By Paivare Bessautn 8, Guoss, Sup. Co. 348 Inf, Camp Diz, N.Y. A company of negro soldiers at Camp Pike, as a matter of course, and do close order drill in Arkansas, were going to the division rifle range for Serially between times | practice, and one of them was not a bit backward Py Parsate Jack Mivrz, 216th Eng., Camp Lewis, Wash. They must bear the brunt of the battle and in proclaiming his prowess as a marksman. Some News Item: “The men in camp get ham and press notices, besides keeping up a correspon De i] of his companions doubted his ability and taunted eggs for breakfast.” dence with all the pretty girls met while in train I him with such remarksas“ Youcouldn’t hit a stone We do, but not together. ing camp. The Infantry has large natural de wall!" Asa result the well-known Ethiopian ten- posits of 14 carat ore, and will assay twenty brave The Wild-cat and fearless heroes to the ton. A private in the Infantry can cut out an Ord nance Sergeant from his best girl in two minutes and six seconds, and knock the lining out of a night attack at the same time with a kick of the hind leg. In the Infantry they drill with rifles, pistols. revolvers, automatics, bayonets, mess kits, hand grenades, sky rockets, lanterns, Fords, feet, Cor porals and strong language. The Medics drill with triangular bandages and stretchers; the Artillery with cannon, curry- combs and good intentions. The passport into any élite parler must have the indigo insignia, and any soldier who is in- and kill them Germins, but Ah sho don’ want you ted with any other branch of the Service may to pile ‘em up so that they'll look like a mount’in Drawn by HE. Russris, Cn, B, 320 Ba.T.C.,Camp Tobyhanna, Pa, a8 Well make up his mind to stay in camp and be obstructin’ the road!’”” “Tue Taxxs Ane Comino! good. dency to exaggerate came into full play “Why, looka here, niggah,” said the marks man. ‘‘ When it comes to shootin’ I'se right thar, and Ah wants you to know it.” “You mought be a good shooter down in Alabam’,” one of them came back at him, “but it sho am diff’runt in them trenches with them ‘rmins comin’ at you.” !” Ephraim exclaimed with supreme disgust. “Huh, Ah don’ keer nothin’ ‘bout them Germins! When I sees them Dutchmen comin’ at me, Ah’ll shoot and shoot and shoot, an’ keep on shootin’ and knockin’ 'em down until they piles up so high, that the Cap'n come to me and say, “ Looka, here, niggah, Ah wants you to shoot Se aSeen SS os aS Sa: 3 Y J ah comicbooks.com