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Title: JM-212: Movies for the conference
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting a Japanese figure watching a movie with Uncle Sam. Film shows both the victorious nations and the defeated ones being crushed underneath debt, suffering, and unrest; war sits in a field filled with gravestones.

Title: JM-084: Brittania boasts about subsidizing merchant marine, while Uncle Sam stands by unused merchant marine
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting figure representing Britannia standing on a boat with fleet of British ships behind him. He tells Uncle Sam, who is standing on non-moving ships decorated with cobwebs, that he subsidizes his merchant marine. Uncle Sam replies that he does not.

Title: JM-C007: Cheering crowd at a football game
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting the crowd at a football game. All of the audience members are cheering or waving flags, except for one man who is seen working on his nails.

Title: JM-323: The bonds of matrimony and government war bonds
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicts people rushing to get married. They are unsure whether to invest in war bonds.

Title: JM-226: They're off!. 226
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting the presidential race of 1924, with candidates Robert M. La Follette Sr. with the Progressive Party, John W. Davis of the Democratic Party, and Calvin Coolidge of the Republican Party, who won the election and became the president of the United States that year.

Title: JM-192: Nope!
Summary: This cartoon shows President Woodrow Wilson boarding a train. Uncle Sam is attempting to also board the train, but it seems he does not have a reservation. The bag President Wilson is carrying is titled, “League Covenant”. This bag most likely refers to President Wilson’s ambition to form the League of Nations, an collection of nations working together to create international unity. The League of Nations existed from 1920 to 1946. The United States never officially joined the League of Nations, because congress feared its membership would limit the United States’ national sovereignty. At the time, many Americans suggested joining the League of Nations would not benefit the United States. However, there was also a population of Americans, including Woodrow Wilson, who believed The League of Nations’ efforts towards international peace would offer great benefits to the United States. (Summary created by Mary Delano, MU History Intern, Spring 2018)

Title: JM-159: The value of ideals. 159
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting William Jennings Bryan lecturing to earn money in the aftermath of his loss in the 1900 senatorial election. Bryan charged $500 per speech or lecture, and he was the most popular speaker on the Chautauqua circuit from 1900 to 1912.

Title: JM-013: The Changing World
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting three scenes showing contrasting different periods of time. In the top two panels, Wilson is shown first speaking to a cheering crowd in contrast to speaking inside a room with unenthusiastic people listening. In the middle two panels, the Arc de Triomphe is shown first in a barren landscape in contrast with lots of people marching in a procession through the Arc, cheering and waving flags. The final two panels shows a boy reading "A Story of the Plains" while sitting on a haystack in contrast to a boy reading the same story on a comfortable chair.

Title: JM-190: America would like to know
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting Uncle Sam questioning President Wilson about when "America gave its word to the rest of the world" while holding a paper containing a quotation from part of Wilson's interview.

Title: JM-005: Why cotton goods are so high
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting Uncle Sam announcing that the price of wheat should be fixed as a war measure and being met with agreement. In the next panel, he suggests fixing the price of cotton for the same reason, and the "Southern Democrats in control of Congress" get angry at the suggestion.

Title: JM-238: World Court Tribunal. 238
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting Uncle Sam at the World Court Tribunal.

Title: JM-215: Three scenes pertaining to the political barometer in the United States, China, and Russia in 1922
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting political sentiments set in three different countries. In the top panel, centered in the United States, a group of men stand around a political barometer debating why the nomination of Republican, turned progressive, and then again Republican, Albert J. Beveridge for senator occurred. In the middle panel, centered on China, General Wu chases General Chang south while one of the injured warriors lies on the ground and says that Wu is hell. General Wu may refer to General Wu Pei-Fu, who was a warlord in China, mostly in the northern and central regions; he was rumored to be dead by General Chang in the Sacramento Union paper in May 1922. The bottom panel, centering on Russia, shows Uncle Sam sitting next to a representative of the Kerensky Government while Soviet Russia looks on and claims not to be related. Soviet Russia is the period of Russia after the tsar lost power in 1917 and before the creation of the Soviet Union in 1922; the government in this interim period was at first led by Prime Minister Prince Georgy Lvov and Minister of Justice Aleksandr Kerensky, but Lenin returned to Russia in 1917 and began to work on regaining his political supporters, which resulted in Kerensky and Lenin vying for power and support later in the interim period.

Title: JM-227: Dawes remedy for public ills. 227
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting Charles G. Dawes, running mate of Calvin Coolidge on the Republican ticket in the presidential election of 1924, giving his acceptance speech.

Title: JM-020: "Which do you love best?"
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting a pollster bearing a resemblance to Uncle Sam asking Ohio which of her favorite sons she loves best. A group of other people watch from the other side of a fence.

Title: JM-083: Some expert advice on the Panama Canal situation
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting four people: a farmer, a woman editor, a man editor, and a scientist seen in separate panels writing their opinions on the Panama Canal and ideas for what it might be used for.

Title: JM-232: The victory at sea. 232
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting Admiral William Sims flirting with a personification of the airplane and being spotted by a personification of the battleship, who feels betrayed.

Title: JM-W023: News of the 120,000th bomber plane from the Ford assembly line
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting Henry Ford at a table surrounded by women and men holding sheets of paper. A man from the assembly line comes in and shares the news that the 120,000th bomber has just been produced.

Title: JM-230: Hooray for Coolidge. 230
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting Henry Ford driving away from his supporters to cheer on Calvin Coolidge.

Title: JM-179: There are some Congressmen who don't want the Germans to see we are in earnest
Summary: This cartoon depicts Uncle Sam being held back by by men from fighting with his full strength. Uncle Sam is meant to personify the United States. Uncles Sam’s weak arm represents the feeble military forces available through voluntary enlistment. Uncle Sam’s bulky arm represents the United States’s powerful military capability if it enacted the draft. The group holding back Uncle Sam is representative of congress. The two Germans represent Germany across the Atlantic. This comic is showing the disagreement in the United States of employing conscription during World War I. The United States fought in World War I from 1916 to 1918. The draft was eventually employed on May 18, 1917 until November 11, 1919 through the Selective Service Act of 1917. (Summary created by Mary Delano, MU History Intern, Spring 2018)

Title: JM-064: Have you ever noticed--
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting foreign ambassadors to the United States being unaffected by flattery while the American ambassadors are.

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