Evening Star Newspaper, April 28, 1940, Page 21

Berryman Proves to Editor Cartoons Need Not Be Clubs ~ Kindliness of Star Artist Found Reflected - - In His Daily Drawings Mr. Harrison, managing editor ©f the Oklahoma City Oklaho- ~man and Times, is in Washing- ton temporarily writing stories - his ‘newspapers and for the lorth American Newspaper Al- liance. The Star prints this wrticle on Mr. Berryman for the interest it contains for Star readers. By WALTER M. HARRISON. Next to desk portraits of the wife and children, what is your guess as t0 the most popular ornament in the office of a Senator or a Repre- sentative? 4 » The stationery room provides at eost a plaster copy of Houdon's bust of Washington which is the best seller. Next come images of Lincoln. The rise and fall of the G. O. P. may be gauged by the number of new Lincoln busts ordered when a session opens. Framed originals of the cartoons of Clifford K. Berryman occuply far more wall space in the Senate and House Office Buildings than all worship of the founding fathers and everything else. For 50 years “Cliff” Berryman has been drawing good-natured cartoons of the Washington scene. Most of that time his daily cartoon has been on the first page of the conservative, venerable Washington Star. He's a Part of Washington. Kindly, gray, gentle, humorous “Cliff"” Berryman is as much a part‘zfor Uni'ed Jewish Appeal of the Washington scene as the cherry blossoms and the Monument. | ‘When a new member of the House or the Senate gets into one of the Berryman cartoons, he sticks out his chest. He has arrived. Old-timers such as George Norris of Nebraska; the late, great Borah; Senator Ashurst, the audacious; Capper, the perennial Kansan; bettle-browed Jack Garner, Vice President; “Dear Alben” Barkley; Shuffling “Cotton Ed” Smith and amiable Pat Harrison, literally have their walls covered with Berryman cartoons in which they appear. Myn plgerryman passed his Tist birthday anniversary April 2 with nothing more than a wave of the hand. He goes to the office and | does a cartoon every day. He has| filled a three-column hole on page | one longer than any other cartaonist e in the business. Moreover, he probably has hurt} the feelings of fewer men whom hei has lampooned than any other craftsman in India ink. He is the; greatest living demonstration of me; fact that a cartoon does not have | to hit with a club, like Nast’s or Fitzpatrick’s bludgeon. | In 1908, when the late Crosby Noyes hired Berryman for the post, “Cliff,” thinking hé would please the | editor, -played to Mr. Noyes’ distaste for Theodore Roosevelt. He drew a vicious picture of ‘T. R. as Dickens’ ugly character, Sykes. - X “That's a great cartoon, Berry-‘ man!” Mr. Noyes. said, “but thnt‘ isn't like you. That isn't the kind of | thing I brought you down here to| draw.” [ Now He Stays in Character. | Mr. Berryman tore the bristol board,_into pieces, returnéd to his | eavel“and resolved never again to| get.out of character. He got the +idea of kindliness from his father— from the homely maxim that you can catch more flies with sugar thsn! with vinegar—and he has held to it in at least 100,000 cartoons. 1 would have been disappointed | p o1, and c. 1. O. affliates which if “Cliff” Berryman’s office had been clean and chromium. I wasn’t. He works in a cubby hole. You have to go through the big city room on the seventh floor, then thread the art department, to get to it. The only unshaded window is the north light, artist’s fetish. The remainder of the room is a mess. Chairs piled high with newspapers and junk. You have to push off a pile of files to find a place to sit. Some antecedent’s Civil War musket, with dull and rusty bayonet attached, stands in a window corner. Book- cases, untidy, drip tomes from every section. Maybe nobody else can find what he wants in that rubble heap, but it's Mr. Berry- man’s accumulation of the ages. He is economical, although The Star wouldn't care if he blocked out his drawings on a whole sheet of Bristol board like Jay Darling | does. Mr. Berryman sketches on a piece of cardboard about the size of ordinary letter paper. In Mr. Berryman's own opinion, the best cartoon he ever drew was one printed about the turn of the century. The late William J. Bryan was the cartoonist’s meat. Mr. Ber- ryman made scores of sketches with the commoner in them. One time the peerless leader came to Wash- Ington and some interviewer ques- tioned him on where he stood on the silver question. He answered: “I stand where I have stood for the last 10 years.” Caption on Next Day’s Feature. ‘That quotation appeared over the Berryman feature the next day. Mr. Bryan, in seersucker and wide hat, with his bird’s-nest haircut sticking out behind, was standing outside the high-barred fence, looking in at the White House from the Penn- sylvania avenue side. The cartoon was reprinted from coast to coast. It is typical of the Berryman tech- nique. Probably the -artist's greatest cre- vation was the “teddy bear.” He never made an extra dime out of it. For that he has no regrets. A '~ EXTRAORDINARY OFFER! Double-vision Ground-in Invisible BI-FOCAL LENSES “Take advantage and SAVE! Two-vision Bi-focals with no visible lines to distort the view! Youthful appearance. - near vision, SLansburghs 1 S0 | Herbert Glassman, Hymen Gold- man with a business mind might have copyrighted that thing and made a fortune. If Mr. Berryman had done it, he might have quit drawing cartooris, and that would have been a calamity. You remember T. R. was hunting in Mississippi when some “sports- man” tethered a bear cub in the edge of the woods, urging Roosevi to take a shot at it. T. R. sald, “ I shot that little fellow, I would be ashamed to look my children in the face.” Mr. Berryman did up 3 picture next day captioned, “Draw- ing the Line in Mississippi.” It had & double meaning. Mr. Berryman dotes on that approach. It also had the original teddy bear drawing which caught on instantly and swept the country. You youngsters, who are studying to be McCutcheons, needn’t form at the right for a chance at Cliff's job. If and when the old master goes, his talented son, Jim, will take over. Jim does a sports page spread for The Star daily. Some years ago, when “the old man” had to g0 to the hospital, Jim switched, did a political picture daily so well that the tops said whenever Berry- man, the first, wants to give over, sut Berryman, the second, over there in his corner. Vice Cil;irmen Named Appointment of vice chairmen of the United Jewish Appeal was an- nounced last night by Morris Simon and Rabbi Isadore Breslau, co- chairmen of the annual overseas re- lief drive which opens here May 14. The vice chairmen, representing leading Jewish organizations of the city, will have key roles in the three- week campaign for funds to aid the destitute Jewish communities of Europe and to provide homes for refugees in Palestine and other lands. Among the prominent Jewish or- ganizations which are participating in the drive by providing volunteer solicitors are the Council of Jewish Women, Hadassah, District Zionist Organization, the sisterhoods of the various temples and synagogues, go Lodge of B'nai Brith and| Auxiliary, George Washington Lodge and others. Vice chairmen of the drive in- clude: ° William L. Bush, Morris Cafritz, Joseph Cherner, Morris Garfinkle, man, Mrs. Charles A. Goldsmith, Zalmen Henkin, Mrs. Milton King, the Rev. Louis Novick, Mrs. Moe Offenberg, Edward C. Ostrow, Benjamin Ourisman, John M. Safer, Henry Salus, Mrs. David Simon, I. S. Turover, Harry Viner and Joseph A. Wilner. | Paul Himmelfarb and Gilbert Hahn will serve as treasurer and | assistant treasurer, respectively, of the campaign. The local drive is part of the Nation-wide United Jewish Appeal for overseas relief and refugee aid. Anti-Trust Division firobes AE.L-C.10. Dispute Here The Anti-Trust Division of the | Department of Justice is investigat- | ing the jurisdictional dispute of A. Friday caused a walkout of A. F. of L. workmen on an elevator in- | stallation project at the State De- | partment Building, The Star learned yesterday. The case has been referred to Walter R. Hutchinson, special as- sistant to the Attorney General, in the Anti-Trust Division. | The walkout occurred when Sam | Merando, subcontractor on the proj- | ect, put C. I. O. workers on a brick job for which, he said, the A. F. of L. refused to furnish men. The A. F. of L. men participating in the walkout were employes of other sub- | contractors engaged to do various parts of the elevator installation project. In several instances in recent months A. F. of L. construction unions here have refused to recog- nize a new C. I. O. building trades union as a “legitimate” labor or- ganization. This non-recognition led to inter-union picketing of two establishments in the 1200 block of P street. American U. Students Will Ballot Thursday Four nominees for president of American University's student body are now campaigning for office and will deliver their campaign speeches at 1 pm. Tuesday in Hurst Hall. Ballots will be cast Thursday. Candidates are W. Addison Clay,| Charles Corddry, William E. Fausold | and Paul Lentz. Other nominees include - Sarah Ann Rapp and Charles Spencer, vice president; Mary Curry and Margaret Ellison, secretary; Mildred Wagnon and John Abbadessa, cheer leader. 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