The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, February 21, 1921, Page 15

Woman Winner in the Cartoon Contest Crooked Politics Is for Disarmanent, Applied to Farmers, Mrs. Anderson Says - zwzs | HE big cartoon contest is #|] over. A woman won it. The . cartoon is reproduc- ed below, with the win- ning answer, supplied by Mrs. P. T. Anderson, . Twete, Mont. Three members of the Anderson family sent in answers, but Mrs. Anderson’s was the shortest and snappiest. . . Several hundred answers were re- ceived. They came all the way from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific. They were so good that the members of the Leader staff spent many sleepless nights before a ‘decision could be reached. About half of those who sent in answers. thought that Crooked Politics was giving up the fight. “Kamarad” was sent in as an answer by dozens. Other popular answers in this list were “Help” and “I’ll be good.” The idea that Cartoonist Morris had in mind, however, was that Crooked Politics was anxious to have the farm- er give up his weapon and was trying to talk the farmer out of it. Some of the best answers along this line were: .“Put that gun down. You might hurt yourself.”—J. G. Yost, Chappell, Neb. “Hey, man! Don’t you know that’s a dangerous weapon? Let me show you how to hold it.”—J. J. Boomgar- den, Wahpeton, N. D. . “I'm so afraid you'll hurt yourself, Mr. Farmer. Let me fix your gun.”— Robb. E. Smith, Portland, Ore. Another group of answers turned on the point that while the farmers had the weapon, the direct primary, for many years, they have only been able to make it effective since they were. organized politically. “When I gave him the empty gun I didn’t think the darned fool would have sense enough to load it.”—Hans Paulsen, Pender, Neb. “Darn.it, I wish I had never let him have that gun. It is too dangerous a weapon since that darned A. C. Town- ley taught him how to use it.”—Gust}. C. Peterson, Lake Williams, N. D. “Great Scott, I thought that thing was busted.”—Mrs. H. W. Thomas, Chicago. Here is an original answer, in a class all by itself: . “I wonder if I can be crooked enough so it won’t hit me.”—M. E. Thorson, Minot, N. D. This man put his answer into rhyme: “Farmer, farmer, don’t shoot me; Shoot that fellow behind the tree. Let me live and thrive and eat; Farmer, farmer, I don’t cheat.” —August J. Wilkins, Lorraine, Kan. Here, is another highly original an- swer: “Yes, yes, I'll ‘stick up’ for the Non- partisan league.”—Halvor Rynestad, Thief River Falls, Minn. ) August Lee of Mohall, N. D., notic-" ed that the farmer’s head was uncov- ered. He made Crooked Politics say: “T’ll hold that gun while you go and get your hat.” . And Fred Reing of Ruthton, Minn., thought the big fellow was saying: “Aw, have a heart! 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