sweet find!
just change the names and it still fits today...
Very good find. Well, we saw the outcome of that last one and the socialist president in the office then. I guess we can assume the same outcome on this one. Redistribution of wealth, expansion of social programs, loss of more individual rights. Please 2010, hurry up and get here.
From Chicago no less... The only iron(y) still made in the US.
That one's a keeper, thanks!
The single most important part of the cartoon is “Blame the Capitalists for the Failure.” That’s what they do every time, and every time it gets easier. I’ve had long conversations with many people who understand and approve of free market principles on a regular basis, who nonetheless believe the Great Depression was caused by capitalist excess, and that Roosevelt eased our pain until WWII pulled us out. Darn shame.
"A native Ohian and semiprofessional baseball pitcher in his youth, Carey Orr took the money he earned from baseball and enrolled in the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. After a humble first newspaper job with the Chicago Examiner at fifteen dollars per week, Orr, at the age of twenty-four, joined the Nashville Tennessean as a full-time editorial cartoonist. By 1917, with his cartoons appearing in many national publications, Orr accepted an offer to work for the Chicago Tribune, in which his political cartoons were regularly featured on the front page for more than forty-six years. A crusader for public safety, Orr brandished his pen against gangsterism, waste and corruption in government, prohibition, communism, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal. Orr was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1960." Syracuse University Library http://library.syr.edu/digital/exhibits/c/cartoonists/orr.htm
"Gruff, one-eyed Cartoonist Orr does not hate Franklin Roosevelt either, simply considers him "despicable like a snake." He likes to picture the President as a Red, a would-be Hitler, a gorilla-like monster of Fear, Doubt and Ruin. Other cartoonists consider Carey Orr an exponent of "brute force, which gets reaction not converts." Nevertheless Publisher McCormick continues to play his product day after day on the front page." Oct. 26, 1936 Time Magazine http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,788569-3,00.html
"Orr was one of the more notable conservative editorial cartoonist, and he spent many a cartoon knocking FDR and/or Communism (In another unique aspect of his work, Orr drew his cartoons BEFORE showing them to his editor to be accepted or denied, a very uncommon practice for editorial cartoonists, who usually get sketches approved first). Orr did the comic strip The Kernel Cootie, and his niece, Martha Orr, created the comic strip that would ultimately evolve into Mary Worth, which remains in print today! After returning to Chicago, Orr began teaching cartooning at the same school he went to as a teenager. While there, around 1917, he taught a young cartoonist who never quite made it as a newspaper cartoonist. That cartoonist, by the name of Walt Disney, eventually ended up going into a related field." Comic Book Resources http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2009/03/15/a-month-of-pulitzer-prize-winning-cartoons-day-15/
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"The President seized upon a wonderful opportunity in a way that was at once sagacious and dynamic. With insistent determination and great boldness he sought to render the very emergency of the nation, the wreck of business and the fears for the future, the means of establishing his authority and leading both Congress and the country into a more hopeful and resolute temper. In a true sense the public disaster was transmuted into an official triumph for him. But that was because he appeared to the American people to be riding the whirlwind and directing the storm. The country was ready and even anxious to accept new leadership. From President Roosevelt it got a rapid succession of courageous speeches and effort and achievement which inclined multitudes of his fellow citizens to acclaim him as the Heavensent man of the hour."
Indeed. This was posted more than 2 months ago.
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Your post sent a chill up my spine and prompted me to email it to several people.
An aunt of mine worked for the Trib for over 40 years, she was the Boss (manager) of the 'Reference Room' (before computers), and knew 'The Col' personally. He was a hero in our household when I was growing up and the Tribune was THE only paper we were 'allowed' to read.
(The McCormick Place convention center on Chi's lake front is named after him.)
1934 Chicago Tribune Cartoon Asks – Planned Economy Or Planned Destruction?
“Tugwell, head brain truster” was a central economic planner in the Roosevelt admin.
“Rex the Red” Tugwell
http://www.novelguide.com/a/discover/egd_02/egd_02_00519.html
Richburg – author of the NRA – National Recovery Act, later found unconstitutional
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Richberg
Here is something on Wallace (who later became one of Roosevelt’s vice presidents)
http://www.conservapedia.com/Henry_A._Wallace
Harold Ickes – Secretary of the Interior and director of the Public Works Administration.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USARickes.htm
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/WHIHAR.html
Most of these people are associated with Chicago in one way or another.
Why capitalism fails:
It’s not just the current administration’s penchant for massive spending, our government has a flawed economic
system that will fail as it already has.
Since the global financial system started unraveling in dramatic fashion two years ago, distinguished economists have suffered a crisis of their own. Ivy League professors who had trumpeted the dawn of a new era of stability have scrambled to explain how, exactly, the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression had ambushed their entire profession.
Amid the hand-wringing and the self-flagellation, a few more cerebral commentators started to speak about the arrival of a “Minsky moment,” and a growing number of insiders began to warn of a coming “Minsky meltdown.”
“Minsky” was shorthand for Hyman Minsky, a hitherto obscure macroeconomist who died over a decade ago. Many economists had never heard of him when the crisis struck, and he remains a shadowy figure in the profession. But lately he has begun emerging as perhaps the most prescient big-picture thinker about what, exactly, we are going through. A contrarian amid the conformity of postwar America, an expert in the then-unfashionable subfields of finance and crisis, Minsky was one economist who saw what was coming. He predicted, decades ago, almost exactly the kind of meltdown that recently hammered the global economy.
In recent months Minsky’s star has only risen. Nobel Prize-winning economists talk about incorporating his insights, and copies of his books are back in print and selling well. He’s gone from being a nearly forgotten figure to a key player in the debate over how to fix the financial system.
But if Minsky was as right as he seems to have been, the news is not exactly encouraging. He believed in capitalism, but also believed it had almost a genetic weakness. Modern finance, he
argued, was far from the stabilizing force that mainstream economics portrayed: rather, it was a system that created the illusion of stability while simultaneously creating the conditions for an inevitable and dramatic collapse.
In other words, the one person who foresaw the crisis also believed that our whole financial system contains the seeds of its own destruction. “Instability,” he wrote, “is an inherent and inescapable flaw of capitalism.”
Minsky’s vision might have been dark, but he was not a fatalist; he believed it was possible to craft policies that could blunt the collateral damage caused by financial crises. But with a growing number of economists eager to declare the recession over, and the crisis itself apparently behind us, these policies may prove as discomforting as the theories that prompted them in the first place. Indeed, as economists re-embrace Minsky’s prophetic insights, it is far from clear that they’re ready to reckon with the full implications of what he saw.
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/09/13/why_capitalism_fails/