Judge — September 1938 — page 47: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

“Whose Business?” “My heart bleeds for Louvain” Posterity Posterity is the collective name we give to all those people we are borrow- ing money from without their consent in order that we may fit them for the job of repudiating our debts. When we want to have a good time and don’t want to pay for it we charge it up to Posterity. Posterity at one time belonged to the future, but it has now been projected into the present. Some day it will be- long to the past. Posterity is the sum total of all the bond issues that are coming due the day after tomorrow. Posterity is the process of making all the unborn children get their tickets from a speculator. Posterity is the difference between to- day and next week, expressed in com- pound interest, plus commission charges. The Honor List Kaiser Wilhelm has decorated Gen- eral Von Bootschur with the badge of the Legion of the Bloody Escutcheon for conspicuous recklessness in burning towns. Count Von Strut has been made a Knight of the Red Suspender for his excellent record in shooting non-com- batants. Captain Freschenbad, of the Royal Pillagers, has been promoted to the Loot- ing Lancers in honor of his activity in destroying cathedrals and objets d'art. “Standing with reluctant feet Where the brook and river meet.” Longfellow THE JUDGE ALBUM—1912-1914 comicbooks.com