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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-122: The Trust Conference in a Nutshell. 122
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting the proceedings of the National Conference on Trusts and Combinations under the auspices of the National Civic Federation in Chicago on October 22-25, 1907.

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-054: The teacher of militarism
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting an old man telling his grandsons about the war and romanticizing his involvement in those "great days". The grandsons both have toy weapons, and two women behind the three scold the old man.

Title: JM-099: Texas at the St. Louis Fair
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting a parade of Texas winding through the cartoon. Parade members and watchers include: Senator Bailey, the Texas Rangers, Texas cowboys, etc.

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-W005: We're getting close to astronomical figures
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting one man writing on a chalkboard while another man sits and watches. The numbers keep increasing in number. In the third panel, the seated man appears to be asleep.

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.

Title: JM-194: Paris scenes with Franklin and Wilson
Summary: This top panel of this cartoon shows Benjamin Franklin walking outside in Paris, France. Benjamin Franklin held the title of Commissioner to France from 1776 to 1785, while he served as an ambassador to France during and after the Revolutionary War. Benjamin Franklin is walking in a busy market place and passes an “epicere”, which can be translated from French to mean a grocery. The bottom panel shows Woodrow Wilson passing through the streets of Paris in a parade. Woodrow Wilson traveled to Paris in 1919 after the fighting in WWI had ceased. Wilson attended the Paris Peace Conference, which would eventually produce the Treaty of Versailles. The Treaty of Versailles is the treaty that formally concluded WWII. (Summary created by Mary Delano, MU History Intern, Spring 2018)

Title: JM-247: Cartoons of the day. 247
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting the cartoons of the day: personifications of the months being judged like contestants in a beauty pageant, a man crusading against the unclean shows, and a poor man and a rich man going to college.

Title: JM-172: The New York "Suffs" and the "Antis"
Summary: This cartoon illustrates a parade to grant women’s suffrage in New York. Suffrage, or the right to vote, was not granted for women by the federal government until the passing of the 19th amendment in 1920. The cartoon shows the conflict between suffragists and anti-suffragists before and after the parade. Many anti-suffragists attended the parade to discredit the message of the suffragists and inform the public most women did not wish to a “the vote”. Anti-suffragists believed ,for a variety of reasons, women did not have the capacity or the desire to acquire the right to vote. The cartoon also shows the crowd’s increasing enthusiasm as the parade passes. (Summary created by Mary Delano, MU History Intern, Spring 2018)

Title: JM-123: Some schemes for stimulating the campaign. 123
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting the presidential election campaigns of 1908 as a series of baseball games.

Title: JM-258: Cartoons of the day
Summary: Board depicting three different editorial cartoons. In the top panel, the islands of Fiji and Hawaii are shown as links between the United States and Australia. In the middle panel, two men and two women are shown listening to a radio declaring the Republican Concention meeting; a sign on the wall shows the date as June 12. In the bottom panel, a woman in a courtroom tells a judge that she is willing to do a couple of years of time in exchange for the judge letting her associates go.

Title: JM-C003: Reading the play to a home audience vs. reading his play to a [manager]
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting the play author reading his play to his family, who clap for him with large smiles on their faces. In the next panel, the smiling man reads his play to a man surrounded by portraits who slouches in his chair without any sign of enthusiasm.

Title: JM-316: The enquiring reporter
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting a reporter who hears from various people how cool the weather is.

Title: JM-073: Four panels depicting a man in recreational activities: Playing billiards, sitting in a theater, sitting at a table in a lobby, reclining under a tree
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting four panels focusing on a man participating in recreational activities. In the first panel, he is playing billiards by himself. In the second panel, he is sitting in a crowded theater during intermission and facing away from the people around him. In the third panel, he is sitting by himself at a table with a beverage resting on it. In the final panel, he is sitting alone underneath a tree, smoking.

Title: JM-183: Cartoonical miscellany
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting three different panels. The top one shows American soldiers fighting against German forces in World War I. The middle panel shows a man sitting in a chair with a horn blast blown by a soldier and the breeze begins to melt the man’s frozen feet. The draft refers to the Selective Service Act of 1917, which forced men to enlist for military service. The bottom panel shows May leaving and June entering; a man sits at a desk writing an oration on "How to settle the war"; a man and a woman get married. June is the month in which two of the three registrations for the Selective Service Act of 1917 occurred. Students and married men also were given lower preference to draft in 1917. (Summary created by Mary Delano, MU History Intern, Spring 2018)

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