"Where he can be kept out of mischief?"
This 1917 Iowa cartoon shows the sly,
ugly German-American. Cartoons like this
one fostered violent assaults on the
innocent. Jay Norwood “Ding” Darling
worked at the Des Moines Register and
Leader before moving to New York and
working for the government doodlers via
the New York Globe and the New York
Herald Tribune. He was published in
newspapers across the USA and rode the
wave of anti-German hate propaganda,
eventually winning Pulitzer Prizes. He was
later picked by FDR to head of the
Bureau of Biological Survey. Cartoons
like this one fostered suspicion and hatred
of German Americans, yet even today
they draw no scorn.
This 1917 Iowa cartoon shows the sly,
ugly German-American. Cartoons like this
one fostered violent assaults on the
innocent. Jay Norwood “Ding” Darling
worked at the Des Moines Register and
Leader before moving to New York and
working for the government doodlers via
the New York Globe and the New York
Herald Tribune. He was published in
newspapers across the USA and rode the
wave of anti-German hate propaganda,
eventually winning Pulitzer Prizes. He was
later picked by FDR to head of the
Bureau of Biological Survey. Cartoons
like this one fostered suspicion and hatred
of German Americans, yet even today
they draw no scorn.
