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Title: JM-125: When Uncle Adlai goes a-wooing. 125
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting Adlai Stevenson I calling on Miss Illinois accompanied by a personification of his war record, Roger Charles Sullivan, and a personification of the Golden Circle record. Stevenson ran for Governor of Illinois in 1908, at the age of 73, and lost by a narrow margin.

Title: JM-280: Three scenes pertaining to Groundhog Day
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting three scenes related to Groundhog Day. In the first panel, men discuss the calendar day and express a need to hurry. In the second panel, a man holds an umbrella over a groundhog hole so that the groundhog will not see his shadow. In the last panel, workers at a sausage mill hurry to pull the blinds down so that the sausages do not see their shadows.

Title: JM-223: The changing world. 223
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting the funeral of former U. S. President Warren Harding.

Title: JM-214: We hope he wins the hole
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting Harding golfing for a strike settlement held by the public while railroad executives and strikers squabble. Hard times hopes that Harding will miss so that he can win.

Title: JM-267: Uncle Sam asks the country questions about defense
Summary: Uncle Sam is shown asking a crowd representing the American people three questions about opposition to war, if the country ought to defend itself, and if it should be prepared to defend itself. The crowd stands in support of the first two questions, but a small group sits down when he asks the third.

Title: JM-257: Both equally to blame for dragging religion into politics
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting Uncle Sam saying that both the man who is for Smith since Smith is a Catholic and the man who is against Smith for being a Catholic are both being religiously intolerant.

Title: JM-186: Three scenes about labor workers
Summary: This cartoon depicts three different scenes in separate panels. In the top panel, a business man is angry about workers' unions and wants them to be "smashed," but later, with the threat of a strike hovering over him, he signs his name on a wage increase form. Negotiation between workers and employers were becoming a more common occurrence in the 1910s. Unions and the notion of collective bargaining were beginning to be protected under the law. In the middle panel, a man's boss is happy to get more labor out of the man since prohibition. The man's family also claims to get more money out of him since prohibition, and the children show off their new shoes. This panel shows the desired result of prohibition, which was to eliminate the loss of prosperity and productivity associated with drunkenness.In the bottom panel, John Bull smiles while reading the English paper, which proclaims the growing labor party might control government at next election. Meanwhile, Uncle Sam reads an American paper, which proclaims the Farmer Labor Party has grown to contain three people. As Uncle Sam reads the paper, there is panic in the background. The Farmer Labor Party was a political party founded in 1920 from the larger, international workers’ movement associated with communism. As Uncle Sam reads the paper, there is obvious panic in the background. This last panel shows the significant difference in culture between the United States and England. England, like many other European states, was learning to tolerate the labor parties, and it eventually adopted the new parties into their political landscape. The United States was hypersensitive to any hint of communism, due to fears of a workers’ revolution. Unlike England, the United States constantly sought to limit the influence and growth of these labor parties as much as possible. This fear is seen by the Red Scare the United States experienced in the 1920s. The Red Scare spread mass fear of communism, and it sought to eliminate communism completely from American economics and culture. (Summary created by Mary Delano, MU History Intern, Spring 2018)

Title: JM-W014: Ten Santas appear at home on Christmas during war-time
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting the living room, which is decorated for Christmas. Ten Santa figures are crowded on one end of the room. The boy and girl stare wide eyed at the Santa figures while the older woman and man, who is in a military uniform, both have a hand over their mouths as though yawning.

Title: JM-W017: "I'll have to tighten your belt, Uncle"
Summary: A figure labeled "New Deal" severely tightens Uncle Sam's belt, while Uncle Sam protests. A portrait of the "New Deal" on the wall behind the two figures has the label: "God's Gift to Britain."

Title: JM-022: How we have changed!
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting Pinckney refusing one cent for tribute and proclaiming that all money should go to defense. He is contrasted with another figure who is proclaiming that all the money should go toward political gain and none toward defense.

Title: JM-264: According to the autopsy, she was constitutionally and economically unsound but meant well
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting the "Farm Relief Forces" as mourners standing by the grave of the "Equalization Fee".

Title: JM-208: A busy day at the county jail
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting prisoners breaking out of jail right in front of the guards.

Title: JM-W024: In the Allied camp
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting Churchill and FDR looking at a map of Europe in the top panel. In the bottom panel, Hitler, Togo, and Mussolini worry about the plane production in the U.S. as the "unpredictable" factor compared to their U-boats.

Title: JM-252: The Nation Will Be All Ears Tonight. 252
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting J. Edgar Hoover accepting the position of Director of the Bureau of Investigation.

Title: JM-169: He kept us out of war!
Summary: This cartoon shows a democratic speaker addressing a crowd. The speaker is saying, “He kept us out of war”, which was President Wilson’s campaign slogan for the election of 1916 against Charles Hughes. There are various countries making comments behind the speaker. This first man on the left represents Japan. Japan is saying President Wilson would have gone to war with Japan, if he had allowed an act discriminating against Japanese immigrants in larger immigration legislation.The country next to Japan is England. England is saying that President Wilson would have entered World War I, if he had protected American shipping. This is a reference to the attack of an American ship, the Lusitania, by a German submarine. Japan and England were both Allied powers during World War I, and they are separated from the Axis powers, Germany and Mexico, by a wall. Germany is saying that President Wilson would not have needed to keep the United States out of war, if Germany had not been an aggressor against other nations. Next to Germany, Mexico is saying President Wilson would have declared war, if he had remained adamant on the salute if the flag. This refers to when President Wilson did not want to salute (and thus recognize) the Mexican government under the control of Victoriano Huerta. Despite his apprehension, President Wilson eventually returned the salute from a sense of precedent and duty. (Summary created by Mary Delano, MU History Intern, Spring 2018)

Title: JM-087: Undisputed sovereignty
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting Uncle Sam looking across the Panama Canal while the U.S. flag flies above it.

Title: JM-W012: Trying to sign her up for international unity, financed by Congress
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting two men trying to sell books with titles about International Unity with Britain and a better League of Nations to a woman dressed in the colors of the American Flag. The men also claim to have already asked Congress for a billion dollars as a starter fund.

Title: JM-151: The President is working on his message. 151
Summary: This cartoon shows President Woodrow Wilson drafting his first States of the Union address to Congress. President Wilson was inaugurated on March 4, 1913, and he was the first president from the democratic party to be elected since Grover Cleveland left the office in 1897. President Wilson’s desk with ideas he wishes to accomplish while in office. Woodrow Wilson was a leader in the Progressive movement, which proposed society could be improved through legislative reform. President Wilson took office shortly before the beginning of World War I on July 28, 1914. (Summary created by Mary Delano, MU History Intern, Spring 2018)

Title: JM-283: Why not make a sporting event of some of out marriage and divorce statistics
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting crowds watching a marriage/divorce scoreboard with great interest.

Title: JM-011: If we don't look out, we'll teach this country how to worry along without coal and railroads
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting railroad and coal workers looking at highways and hydro-powered machines still working while both the railroad and coal industries are on strike and worrying about the future if the country decides it can move along without them.

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