The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, September 27, 1917, Page 10

BAER’S' CONTRIBUTION THE ABOVE CARTOON WAS|] BAER'S PICTURE|¢ OF THE FIRST BIRTHDAY OF THE LEADER PUBLISHED IN THE LEADER A YEAR AGO —_—— SN R R S \‘\\\’\_\-‘\\ \\\ “3‘\\\ S R <= A o e — MARRK —— p—— 710,000 ONGRESSMAN John M. Baer is the only Leader cartoonist ‘ who had a chance to draw a birthday cartoon for the Leader last year and this year also—the Leader only had Baer draw- ing for it a year ago, but now it has six eartoonists. Baer’s cartoon, printed in September, 1916, when the Leader was a year old, was in- corporated by Baer in the above drawing, which celebrates the second birthday of the paper. TFoss’ idea of the event which this issue cele- brates, appears as the cover of the Leader. Billican’s idea of the same event appears on another page. The success of the Leader as the official publication of the great farmers’ political and economic movement was immediate and striking. No other farm paper and no other political paper ever has marked more important history in two brief years of existence. The Leader was and breaking TO THE LEADER’S BIRTHDAY Jwo ears old the Record ! P = born when the Nonpartisan league was an obscure organization in North Dakota that nobody, outside of the first few thousand members; ever heard of. Now the Leader is read by half a million people, and the League is the one big thing on ithe political map of the United States. ; The Leader expects to have Baei draw it a birthday cartoon next year, just like he did last year and this year, What will the Leader have to report about the great League movement on its next birthday? Probably a bigger and more important story than it reports in this issue. The great League Producers’ and Consumers’ conferences, re- ported in this issue, are big and important enough, to be sure, but we venture to say that the third birthday number of the Leader will record something mere significant even than tha. : PAOGH THN cro v