Judge, 1919-12-27 · page 6 of 37
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains three distinct pieces: **"Lunch-Boxing the Compass"** by Richard Butler Glaenzer is a poem contrasting hospitality traditions across regions—the South welcomes strangers, the North offers indifference, the West provides open houses, and the East expects guests to repay hosts. **"The Elements of Power"** discusses WWI's deciding factors: labor (millions of Allied troops), training (officers coordinating operations), and genius (military leadership). The text argues Germany could have won with "a hundred men like Joffre, Petain, Haig, Pershing and Foch." **"Apt to Occur"** is a brief anecdote about mistaken identity during hunting, likely satirizing wartime confusion or accidents. The page's illustrations include a sketch of children with a cart and an interior scene of someone using a telephone. The content reflects American WWI-era concerns about military strategy and national character.
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tyeh? I'll give ye two hu f heads off at my expense. As to Bulg. Bukovina, and Bessarabia, | believe I voice the timents of millions of free-born income-tax payers when I say, take lix; they are all yours ting, | am certain, when a new pack of fools will come and hunt you up in your exile at Schlitzen-Bad-unter-Wein, clap a Field Marst form on you, put you in a bomb-proof mote rush you back to your hereditary palace. ‘They will announce that you have performed prodigies of per- sonal bravery. You will wear again your twenty uni- formsaday. You will give, twenty-five cents toa blind beggar and be called the father of your people. I give you notice, Mary Augustus, that when this happens, I shall not lift a finger to stop it. For it a pears that our poor humanity, its h the cruel buffeting of the war, able of moving forward, gger round in a circle them, Charles F The time is c V's uni- car and is in- nd can The Elements of Power 1. Lab Three or four million Allies with trenches and barbed wire and guns. kept the Germans from Paris. No genius could without those millions. marching to have availed \ few thousand trained millions order 2. Training officers gave the und co. operation. But for those few thousand the Germans could have marched all the way across France as easily as they did all the way across Poland If the Kaiser could have or destruction a hundred men ire, Petain, Haig, Pershing and Foch, the allied armies would have fallen to pieces. These three, labor, training, and Drawn by Caswronn Yous genius, are the trinity of human power; but eithe of them is futile alone geographical puzzle with a game of jack straws. Lunch-Boxing the Compass By Ricnann Bottew Graexzer They live from hand to mouth In the South, ways welcome to a share: The wolf may drag you forth In the North, . And no one helps, but only stops to stare. The stranger is a guest In the West; ‘The open house is not an empty boast: Invited out to feast In the East The stranger often settles for the host. Historically Sound Visitor—So this is the famous original Binks res. taurant that I’ve heard al Yes, this i8 it. Of cour. » and the place has changed hands several t The last owners moved it from its old location, which at for so many years! old man Binks died some time since. was fifty blocks farther down-town, to this present pice and uilt an entirely new place here. which they remodeled Otherwise it hasn't been changed last vear t completely last. summer particle since the old days Apt to Occur “A feller down on Fiddle Creck while hunting tuther day.” related a neighbor mistook him for a wild cat, or something that-a-way.” “Eh-yah!” returned Gap Johnson, of Rumpus Ridge “When a feller is powerful strong to mistake his brother-in-law “Said he shot Ark a loaded gun in his hands the temptatior 1 brother-in-law for—p'tu! somethi Houscholder—Have you any coal “We have a littl ” up a dozen right away Peace. In Russia, something less sanguinary than war; in Germany, bitter medicine that mus! be taken; among the Allies, a combination of a comichooks. r