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# "Esprit de Corps" Cartoon Analysis This cartoon satirizes military bureaucracy and secrecy. Two military officers are shown at a desk marked "SECRET FILE No. 18." The caption quotes a general claiming his majesty's forces have suffered enormous casualties but "NEVER RUN AWAY" — suggesting the officers are creating or maintaining false official narratives about military performance. The joke targets the gap between actual wartime conditions (implied by the high casualties) and official propaganda. "Esprit de corps" (military morale/pride) is invoked ironically — the officers protect the army's reputation through deliberate concealment rather than honest reporting. The accompanying "News Notes from the Philippines" section references real colonial-era governance issues, adding documentary context to the satire about how institutions spin uncomfortable truths.
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443 News Notes from the Philippines. THEnow Missionary Trust is a great success. Their official letter-head reads, ‘The Mutual Missionary Assimilative Association. Yon get religion, we get the rest.’” It is now realized that General Smite's refusal to assimilate children under ten was a \ grave error. Schools will therefore be opened in all villages in So-Long. As rapidly as the children matriculate they will be given the “Long Vacation.” | In spite of all efforts the mortality during the past year only amonnts to one-third of the population. The officials are discussing the introduction of automobiles. The reported discovery of a tribe of red savages in the interior of Plundar is denied. The mistake was due to a glimpse of some soldiers returning from work. Much dissatis- faction is felt with the management of affairs in the province of Looton. It is said that the Civil Governor is too civil. The Government's offer for the Iron Virgin of Strasburg baving been refused, five thou- sand thumbscrews have been ordered for immediate delivery. ESPRIT DE CORPS, General ; AND DID YOUR MEN RUN AWAY? “QIK! MIS MAJESTY's TWO THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND EIONTY-FIRST LOW- Laxpens NEVER ncn awar! wz scnrexpenep, ain!" Our Personal Column. T is understood that Andrew Car- negie will add to his latest book a new chapter, entitled ‘How to be a philanthropist without encroaching on your principal.” John D. Rockefeller, Jr.'s, Bible class has not declared as yet any divi- dends, but several assessments have been levied. General Waller, of the Philippines, has sent to Spain for a complete set of volumes covering the ways and means of the Spanish Inquisition. The Roosevelt children had pie for dinner yesterday. All ate heartily. It is said that General Funston will soon urge the Senate to abolish West Point, on the ground that it interferes with our modern methods of warfare. Miss Ellen M. Stone will take a day off soon and not be interviewed, or write anything, or lecture. This momentous event will be duly chronicled in all the papers. . Sir Michael Hicks-Beach is going to take a course in the higher astronomy, in order that he may be better able to grasp the figures of the New British War Debt. President Roosevelt will not go on his usual hunting trip this year. In place of a rest, he will, however, write a monogram on Trusts and how to foster them without lessening the power of the G. O. P. Thomas W. Lawson, of Boston, is writing a book on sporting etiquette. It will be dedicated to Benj. Tillman. Frank A. Munsey is having an edi- tion de luxe of himself in miniature bound in full calf and strictly limited to four million copies. YSPEPSIA is often a disease of the pocket-book. ‘THE MAN WHO FIRST 6AW THIS HAS SINCE CONSULTED AN OCULIST. comicbooks.com