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Title: JM-229: The South Dakota primary endorsement. 229
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting Coolidge throwing his hat in the ring at the South Dakota primary.

Title: JM-193: If things only worked out according to the prospectus!
Summary: The top left panel is captioned, “The Peace Conference, as the world was led to expect”. The caption references Woodrow Wilson presenting his “14 Points” at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. The Paris Peace Conference was held after the end of fighting in WWI, and resulted in the creation the Treaty of Versailles. The Treaty of Versailles was the document which formally ended WWI, and laid out the terms of surrender for the Axis powers. Wilson’s “14 Points” speech outlined his ideas for peace to thrive after such a brutal and catastrophic war. The first point in Wilson’s speech is “Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after which there shall be no private international understandings of any kind but diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view”. The purpose of this point was to avoid the secret alliances that led to many countries becoming involved in WWI. The top right panel shows Wilson’s “14 Points” in the trash and is captioned, “The Peace Conference as it actually worked out”. The shows three men signing a secret treaty. Based on their appearances and the context of the cartoon these men are mostly likely President Woodrow Wilson (the left), Prime Minister of France, Georges Clemenceau (the middle), and Prime Minister of England,David Lloyd George (the right). The bottom shows a meeting of the League of Nations, and is captioned “The League of Nations, as the world is led to expect”. The League of Nations was Woodrow Wilson’s idea to create a body of the world’s nations, which would foster international cooperation and support. The League of Nations is the fourteenth point in Wilson’s “14 Points” being described as “A general association of nations must be formed under specific covenants for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike”.The League of Nations operated from 1920 to 1946, and faced significant problems from nations having varying international interests. The bottom right panel shows five men sitting at a table with the caption, “The League of Nations if it follows the precedent set by the Paris Conference”. (Summary created by Mary Delano, MU History Intern, Spring 2018)

Title: JM-276: Cartoons of the day
Summary: Editorial cartoon consisting of three panels, with each panel depicting a different cartoon. In the first panel, Mexico cheers Col. Fierro; in the second panel, King Carol of Romania arms; in the third panel, Stimson shows Uncle Sam the Navy treaty

Title: JM-293: Light and dark colored mottoes for the businessman's office
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting two walls with old-fashioned and modern styles business mottoes.

Title: JM-225: Campaign shenanigans. 225
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting the 1924 presidential election. Charles G. Dawes attacks Roger M. La Follette Sr., the Progressive party nominee, with constitutionalism. John W. Davis and Charles W. Bryan, who both ran on the Democratic ticket, play the piano and confuse both sides of the country.

Title: JM-W018: Uncle Sam does the math of war
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting Uncle Sam sitting at a table with many sheets of paper, as well as Calculus and Algebra books in front of him. Boxes above his head show the "problems" of troops and demands that he is trying to figure out.

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.

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