Evening Star Newspaper, January 4, 1925, Page 67

MAGAZINE SECTION o he %mtflag St L Part 5—8 Pages WASHINGTON, D. €, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 4, 1925. Uncle Sam, Clothed in Stars and Stripes, Is Product of Evolution Humor and Philosophy Have Contributed to Pictorial Representation of American Spirit. WHAT A MARVELOUS PATRIOTIC 7§ WORK THEY ARE DO|}‘}G!‘” THE UNCLE SAM OF THE STAR'S CARTOONIST. C. K BERRYMAN. Joun BurL ~ BY GILLRAY JUST AFTER THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION BY FLORENCE SEVILL process is easily traced to the type of [name had a far more aristocratic BERRYMAN, today, vell-to-do country gentle- [Origin than had “Uncle Sam.” for AS THE AMERICAN CARTOONISTS SEE UNC SAM. an, whose good humor and evident | it came from the lips of George < e ety = e =i breeding were the gifts of John|Washington. In desperate need of \ = ; | dignified, benevolent old | Leech and Sir John Tenniel in London | #mmunition, he called a council of | INustrations by C. K. Berryman. l money, in the foreign cartoonists’|stirred Northern patriotism: but he|we study a group a1ts of the led hat and coat and striped | comic journal has a higher grade of | BeStions to offer, the great leader sts, s £ ha oX el deity, prevailed practically without|career untll the war clo There | ing participated in trousers whom we know as|humor than this world-famous week- | Sald, “We must consult Brother Jona- |2 break until we entered the World |are, of course, a number of isolated | Uncle Sam, is so familiar to1¥. It is surely the epitome of Eng-)than” who was the colonial Governor | W oDen ) HE amples of American CAFLOONE | o 8 P = this generation, that few of us have | lISh Wit, often so subtle that the Brii. | of Connecticut. This phrase spread JO!—'N Buere ~ Sent vears, apa may be atiributed | which nanent Bl Sk recent years, and may be attributed | which have a permanent interest for| = wime. e Stiibo Eiven thought to his paternity | ih have a reputation for not possess- |among the Army, became established gols SumA. & fafny o hab < 5 : \ N |altogether to jealousy. Merely be-|us. But Uncle Sam appears very [ oiocle SIS A fURRY 6I4 bIBbo. and lawful right to represent us in|lNE &ny sense of humor whatsoever. (a8 the “John Bull® of the United AS WE : \ | cause Uncle Sam wishes to collect|infrequently. They deal with the | o> : the symbolic association of nations. [ Punch appeals to the class of readers | States, and stuck to us in Drglepd the debts honestly owned to him,|presidential campaign between Lin-| 35T Most of his admirers suppose that|¥ho do not take the Police Gazette. | for decades ez Voot KNOW & 3 ‘ |and because he chooses to handle his|coln and McClellan, and similar 1~~’ ence, when eact sping tightwad, and hard as 4 extensively - arity eply others. and depict him he was born in the mind of some | PUnch extensively employs satire and | PoPularity her own affairs without heeding the sug- | sues. e ORI z great caricaturist, completely eq directs sharp and often stinging|_One of our first cartoons on the J # / | gestions and desires of outside: the series of over 50 cartoor SR nEdaDar ALln mcnE el o Ded with his present affectionate so- | SNafts against his victims. But so | War with Mexico, published in 1846, HIM TODAY European and Oriental caricaturists rch, beginning with on siombaa b g e much of his wit is universally funny |BOW In the collection of the New [10se all recollection of his fes ary, 1861, called “Mrs. Carolina Ass aticeable [t Euch ima HoT without causing ill feelings in any | York Historical Soclety, is a strl € | the womd a’ his own expense and|Her Right to Larrup her Nigger,” | Mos I my e one concernied thet he well deserves{INE €xample Gf thix vecogmition 'of sending clothes, raw materials, and|while a stern but splendid young|Uup-to-date” is still another opinion his place upon the library tables of [{Wo mnames. It is entitled “Uncle medical aid to évery suffering nation |figure of Uncle Sam prote | advanced in the “hay-seed” versi the most intellectual class of readers. | Sam's Taylorifics,” and shows the : from Siberia to Asia Minor. | slave, and ending with one o | of Uncle Sam * % % % young Yankee with & Jarge paic of Sk e | finest obituaries ever made, Sir John| But Iam acquainted with no loftier Shears, one blade marked “Gen. Tay- » renniel's “Britany Sympathizes | conception of him than that of ¢ emploved symbollc flgures repre-|a Mexican In two. Behind Uncle Sam, tween the States, a most gen-| . o5 TPt (UG nearly every | of the W ngton Evening Star, who edition of all his ancestors. Hundreds | senting the various nations are used |the envious figure of John Bull is erous contributor to Uncle Sam's| .;iment that could possibly stir the | has ilustrated this article. He has of generations, stretching back | out of necessity. And though the |saying, not “Uncle Sam,” but “Brother | development steps in—Abraham Lin- | 3o0 et HIAE GO0 POSSEY e it through the gathering mists of his-|standards vary, the conceptions have | Jonathan’s bait s very tempting,” . |coln. 1t is also at this period that|Ruman Reatt at Sueh & tne. eoln t to prehistoric times, have com-|been most potently influenced by |etc. We also note that Uncle Sam | the Stars and Stripes appear in his | S50 25000 G Thele Sam's patriotic | ed to give us the innumerable|Punch. And woe to him who at-|has on the high hat, long-tailed coat, |attire. But In order to get a com-|,,¢ft; and when the latter takes | elsmenis of mental and physicalichar-|tempts; toiichangsl the types hland boots which constituted the fash- | plete ‘and logical cartoon history of [ SRt CF S BAEE S ent in acter, termed individuality, which the whole world is now fa- |jonable attire of that day, and there \ y i |the war, as seen with Uncle Sam | (08 Wi 0 L8 GTC0Nee he ha It may be interesting, then, to climb [ milfar! Uncle Sam, John Bull Cousin |is no trace of Stars and Stripes. THE EVOLUTION OF JOHN BULL. | playing the leading role, we must Veloped & little growth of chin whis | Une s family tree, and search | Michel, John Chinaman, Germania,| Up to the Mexican War, Uncle Sam|—————————— = again turn to Punch. For the only | CrPS oy ik ®Tincoln's. He also| among its branches for the sources|Madame France, the Russian Bear |received scant attention from foreign | stances. In Punch before the war be- [a wild voung blade m appearance,|great American caricaturist living| o o on " comething of the rugged-| f his virtues and peculiarities. and others of importance were chiefly [ journals. But in 1846 and on he ap- | tween the States he usually is de- [ smooth-shaven and with long black |then, Thomas Nast, was with the Unlon | o0 "¢ bronest Abe's appearance, and | There is no doubt that the lady Co- | conventionalized by Sir John Tennlel. | pears frequently, though generally in | picted as a Southerner, and both there | hair. He invariably smokes a large | forces, making u powerful series of |y " roiained it ever since. It has| lumbia is his mother, for although she have become institutions with |the most uncomplimentary circum-|and.in our American cartoons is still | cigar, is pugnacious and greedy for|pictures for Harper's Weekly, which | 8 PSP Rl (0 G0N 0N 0™ (hat | s:ems to have discovered the secret | us, as much so as the Constitution, one reason we all love Uncle Sam of eternal youth, and not a wrinkle | base ball and breakfast bacon, and all more than any other of our symbols| mars her screne countenance, she is | efforts to overthrow any of these are I beniitine hé 16 % “lving” nemMInser quite a few years older than her mid- | met with vociferous protests. An L > C o of one of our greatest and most dle-aged It is impossible to say fault-finder with Punch's John ° typloal Americans. of the symbolic figure of the United | out that the country gentleman type 9 Uncle haa r engaged Sam he & here or abro unless one | doesn't at all express_the true char- 2 achieved his present appearance and | 11 assemble every political draw- | acter of Britain's subjects. For Great personality. And his superb part in| published in the late eighteenth | Britain is the last nation on earth to b4 - L the World War is too recent to need | and early nineteenth centuries, in.|Dbe considered a country of farmers. any comment. | cluding the vast number which must | The most recent criticism is that of o . Il. en the giftie” to see himself have been destroved. But we may|® few months ago by a former uni- through the eyes of others, however, conjecture that the honor goes to|Yersity president of Sheffield, who the venerable old man must get many Willlam \rles, & Scotehman who | inds John Bull offensively mercantile a shock. An examination of German, came to this country at the beginning | In @ppearance, when he should be French, Spanish, Dutch and other na- of the mineteenth century, and who | Postict e any messages are looked for from|and of the moon. Photography fsjhave been less than 40 possible min- | tional publications over a period of may be considered our first political e osaum to these statements are HOW TO OBSERVE THE that solar parent of ours who has a |such a recent aid to the study of [utes for the observation and photog- |50 years reveals him as a veritable AT e el e e A quent denunciations of Uncle Sam : , temperature of 10,000 degrees Fahren- | eclipses that astonishingly little pho- [ raphy of total eclipses of the sun in [ “Jekyl and Hyde” in variations. If influenced the great Giil- our representative, mainly because ECLIPSE. heit, but it is possible some change |tographic material has been obtained. | North America and Europe, and all [ enemies are an indication of a man's v i ;‘Jum x‘\‘nml“;::t'r«f‘m?“:m-fihr' h’! he The best way to observe the may be noted in the magnetic and|It was In 1827 that the first camera | the rest of the world, as Asia, Af-| success, then Uncle Sam must have The New York Public Library has | 27L £aun ikee type with sharp| | o (8PS0 YT Coming. solar | |electric conditions of the earth. Static |image was made, after an exposure |rica and the oceans, far away from | reached the pinnacle. It doesn't seem a collection of early cartoons, one of | features and twinkling eyes is sup- eclipse s explained by Prof. may be affected by the eclipse in some | of seven hours, and not until 12|observatories and equipment, have| possible that one generously actu- the 1812 od by Charles entitled[P0Sed to have long ago become ex- B. G. Way, secretary of the A. marked way. sars later, when daguerreotypes were [added but 1 hour and 50 minutes toyated and altogether genial could have Bruin Becom 1 which | tinct. But isn't that type the way we 7 still at the height of fashion, did the | the time. hibited v ugly sides he T ” 20k ronomical Division of the s, Us at his re- . exhibited so many ugly sides to the S \ppears the figure of a young woman | 10Ve to think of ourselves? vl natitois ofUAxts Snd | hagoun Jonen Mstening In at his Te-|use of paper and negatives make| A total eclipse of the sun has not | world, FIRST PUBLIC APPi SAM'S crowned, a in semi-classic garb,| Uncle Sam owes most of his early| | oo ¥® J08 (0T 8 [ i eackinaw, Mich, T [Tom|photography practicable and give a|been visible In New York city or % X UBLIC APPEARANCE IN Tline o fae The Bnosian bess 14 | development to the pages of the Lon- e the begluning of the | |Smith in New York, may hear a rum- | cizncs to the amateur. Bt It ire Beam RO LONDON PUNCH OF AUGUST, urging her to join hands with John | 40n Weekly, though he grew by hard eclipse by watching the sun n_‘“}mmm;v‘” “Un IIIJL:‘:XIPI:‘ !“:_‘:‘“-:x‘ Wk Twenty-five Presidents of the United HEN we recollect that it is not| 1842, Bull and end hostilities. We note, | knocks. It is highly probable that| | SPRe, B¥ FECHRE L0 LY | |new dlscovery. """ HE first actual photograph of a |States have come and gone since the Jyhat he 1s, but what others think v his first definite appearance was in| | Hhrod pmaymot. g last such event in these cities, and| he is that shows in his numerous|been a national pictorial commenta- Punch, since political cartooning in ss. 1 Amateurs can make their own pho- total eclipse was made on July | 5§ 8. C% S0l N e been known 0 5 o R EaL o . When the moon starts to | |y R or toitie SSIT i 26, 1851, at K P y foreign portraits. Cartoonists seem | tor for over 30 vears, and always IRis lcountey SEaS 8 NelvilaIhaxang <s the sun's face, bandage D e DNk g well sa, of| 36, 1301, At Noehigaheryy end e s Sonth S to be the very nerves of a nmation. 1f|portrays Uncle Sam as the repre- E until about 1§30, For the n X098, thedunins fa0e, IRTCaRS those more elusive details of the sun |daguerreotype. Since that time there (Continued on Second Page.) e he e mary nenves oo ma e ol e i ekt oE Sdle Slanlitocd Hriancll Shaus TH0, oritis nect your eyes With a large blac Incle Sam treads ever so uninten- | sentative of the entire Nation, man or colored plece of cloth tionally upon the toes of one of his| festing its benevolenc humor, w After the eyes have been in neighbors, its newspaper artists are|dom and dignity. And so long as the dark for more than an hour \ . the first to howl with pain. He has| Nation continue 1\ possession of and it is known the eclipse ap- i mever had a quarrel with Holland. | these ll_ll:«l:lu it will remain great. Uncle St " v { proaches totality, unbandage ¥ 7 Consequently, she portrays him with | (From the D. A. Magazine.) ¢ inspector, superintended | Uncle Sam fell heir to his mother's| | 505 ¢ and agaln look through 0 e . dignity and sentiment. Australis, too, | S examination of Army supplies at |clothes when she discarded them to | | 0 TNC80 Slde" In this way 4 considers him a mighty fine chap. The | o store yard of a contractor named the “elassic” style now fash-| | you will sec the fuil beauty of / g et e s Smallest Book. lhert Anderson, “The'inspector was | lonsble amons the eymbolie slite. For, | {1’ sight of iitetime: i¢ Droverblal, Vot she thovent e was| AN opera singer in Elberfcld, ncle Sam’ Wilson, ch cask and|New York Public Library collection, & o 70 horrid ”‘r"““*"l'“m" i llflzh‘ fl.;zrm Germany, owns what is said to was marke? “E. A |entitled “New Edition of Macbeth— |BY ANNETTE RICHARDS FALLOWS, AR SRt Tk e ehe|s e smliess bonk in die worid. 1 3ut the man who | Wears a star-spangle sleeveles: University, % s s i B i 4 B e " i e A G etk and (e tuibeds Akiot A reavor | P { She gave him his start in life, and|manac on the Year 1837 or ignorance, 1t i hard (o say, | clous-looking dagger thrust in her N the morning of Saturday, B TRt OIihe el e enialis o Bl rmed an inquirer that they stood bl ol 00 a s e i N R G ) Spain_ still smarts from the meking Kerosene Miracle. Jlbert Anderson and Uncle Sam.” | @ specs total eclipse of e sun, visi- i < s i 2 . 4 2 is little incident was retold, pub- * ok ok % ble in the eastern United . s : he inflicted in '98, and if one observes THREE-GALLON can filled with Ak i oD ol < 5 N e ey o D the plctures Spanish cartoonlsts drew kerosene passed through a fire pical case of how spontaneously nick- | [ JNCLE SAM'S debut in Punch took | patch extending southeast from cen- : - s 7 . s S e S iccls cortaln he is|at Wharton, Tex., unharmed, when & names arise place the second week of Au-|tral Minnesota through Long Island. e . “4 S ) s Y gazing upon the “missing link.” Cuba [ home was destroyed. In clearing An interesting coincidence to this | gust, 1842, in volume 3, No. 57, when [ It will be visible as a partial eclipse . : ~/;1!/;'~mfic“.‘/§(>‘}/:‘,w - has always been grateful and fond away the debris following the de- briguet and aristocratic appearance, in just such a way as Minerva sprang full-panoplied from the brain of Jove. | But such is not the case. Uncle Sam, | like his cousin, John Bull, and all the rest of us. is the descendant of man and varied forbears. Some wise per-| [N all countries where cartooning is son said that each of us Is a pocket ssback, he'll never learn anything ra however, that she has no name other than “the United States.” place under the humblest cir- frequently, some s, during the War of 1812, | times old, sometimes young, but al- | fore the old gentleman himeelf | ways she was distinguished by the vet appeared. Samuel Wilson, a | national colors. It might be said that story Is the fact that John Bull was | the English weekly was a little over | through a wide area of the Western| [ ! ity g e s b e wrond o[ Atshetive - fivs Hithe JOIIAT Jcanil was christencd exactly 100 vears earlier, | a year old. A humorous letter signed | world. So Important Is this event— . ¢ LTINS ; o mnyiCsRts alie furniuhes Rim.|found in & pile ot dmoldering asheh when Dr. $hn Arbuthnot wrote a po- | “Sam Slick, the Younger,” requests|the only one of its kind which will . : s B enangE iws) df, Uncl] Sanitin litical s itled “The History of | Punch to permit America to look |ever be seen by millions of Ameri- ; 7 i) ] | 1918 are comparable only to Uncle Typewriter Music. John Bull” of tie subfect of the Span- | rom his pages. The eketeh repre- |cans—thit the American Astronomi. . : &7 S e ek v s = ” ‘—n'rvulw\r_tu _He represented John | sents Sam in -brimmed hat and | cal Association uri a4 stop of al X g . e % o el i Saico S Riini n o E he proper effect ull (the English nation) as an hon- | a farmer boy's sult, the galluses much |ordinary activities during the eclipse, - i RS k . although she’s| * of the various sounds when shrap- est, bluff, tempery old chap, prosper- | in evidence, and wearing what Punch [ which in many regions will be the % N . s generally too busy with domestic|nel breaks and scatters, a French cus, but always having trouble with |calls a double squint—one eye con- |first seen in the twentieth century. coag ) ' o - troubles to vent much pictorial spleen. | soldier, who has composed a new his wife (the government). But the | templating a dollar, the other watch-| The sclentific world is assembling . i . : - ADEC L goes, symphony entitled “At the Front,” pictorial representation of John Bull, | ing a slave. About two months later | its forces for observation along stra- 1 gy g X . o Turning to the graphic opinions his| has called for the use of 20 type- s well as Uncle Sam, was to go|the United States is again represented | teglc points along the path of dark- R - - . - own nephews have of Uncle Sam, we| writers in_the orchestra alongside through a spirited process of evolu- | in Punch as a feroclous Indian smok- | ness, but in addition this eclipse will ; N : : o L , recollect the “prohpet mot without| the musical instruments. tion. ing a long black stog! nd clad only | come under the observation of an % 5 . . 5 . honor, save in his own country.” the leading carica- | in our flag for a skirt, army of radio fans. Cloudy weather . Verlly, the only way he can free him- turist of the reign of George IIL drew | Early American cartoonists, how-|can spoil the chances for the men PATH OF THE TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN. IN NORTH AMERICA. THE RAYED CIRCLES IN. |5°!f of his few real, and his many Miles of Newsprint. a serles of scathing satires of the|ever, are wholly responsible for the!with telescopes, but if a radio set DICATE THE VARYING DEGREES. OF TOTALITY WHICH THE ECLIPSE WILL HAVE ATTAINED imaginary frallties, and recelve the HE old newspaper files of the monarch as a heavy, coarse country- | o of Loth the name “Uncle|adorns your living room you may ob- ‘ i e credit due him, is to pass aw a Mus 4 lieiipdittct i COB R e " and the type. The English.|serve the eclipse with your ears, Ra- AT SUNRISE AT THE POINTS INDICATED. THE-SHADED LINE SHOWS THE TERRITORY IN WHICH |jct the historians dwell unon his many | 5pnr\‘:{lt;LEp,:vsl‘L‘:::;ua’r Hovaters les « " This was actually the be- ¢ enouzh, always labeled him | cio i8 going to play a leading role in THE ECLIPSE WILL BE TOTAL. OTHER REGIONS ON THE MAP WILL OBSERVE THE ECLIPSE fine qualities. But Uncle Sam is|r Lond sining of Jobn Bull The refluing ‘Cousin” or “Brother Jonathan.” This this cel:stlal perfermance. Not that ONLY. PARTIALLY. mothing 1f not a philosopher, When nearly 10 miles o‘:!;-hr:mgzv occupy.