Judge — October 1937 — page 2: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Satire on War and Infant Mortality This is anti-war propaganda from Judge magazine, likely from World War I or the interwar period. The grotesque image shows dead babies on a scale, priced at 79 cents per pound—a darkly satirical commentary on nations that offered "bounties on babies" to encourage population growth for military purposes. The accompanying text criticizes world leaders for breeding soldiers destined for slaughter, sarcastically praising mothers for producing cannon fodder. It argues this cycle demonstrates the insanity of war and calls for peace activism through "World Peaceways," a peace advocacy organization (address provided). The satire equates militaristic nationalism with treating human lives as commercial commodities, condemning both war and the propaganda encouraging large families to sustain armies.