Problem in Caricature

To get a line on their Presidents, U. S. citizens have looked harder and oftener at political cartoons than at the editorial pages. Franklin D. Roosevelt was a caricaturist's "natural." But his cartoon character did not evolve overnight. At his nomination in 1932, top-flight Cartoonist "J. N. Ding" (Jay Norwood Darling) had already caught Roosevelt's cowcatcher chin and vaudeville grin. Added later were weightier jowls, up-jutting cigaret holder that make up the now-familiar Roosevelt caricature.

Last week U. S. cartoonists had an exciting new problem--Wendell Willkie. Their first task was to collect their wits. Then they squinted hard at Willkie's big, slightly stooped frame, his mastiff face (it would "batter" well, they observed), a mouth whose long, stubborn upper lip twinkled at the corners.

At week's end they had not got far with a caricature solution. But they agreed that prospects were fine for one of the most cartoonable Presidential campaigns of U. S. history.

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