(Continued) velt drive toward the White House without being ill-tempered or gloomy. A favorite "Ding" theme derives from the Republican charge that Governor Roosevelt has neglected to keep his own state in economic order, has permitted stock speculators, crooked bankers, corrupt Tammany politicians and criminals in general to run riot through New York while he was trying to sell his presidential services to the country at large. Before the conventions he drew a memorable picture entitled "The Mysterious Powerless Phenomenon" in which Governor Roosevelt, hugging Miss 1932, sped by the Party Powers in an old buggy with empty shafts. Because his work is widely syndicated, Cartoonist Darling considers it his prime duty to jest on all subjects, to produce a smile before delivering a partisan thrust.

A famed "Ding" character is the stalwart, chin-whiskered Iowa farmer, sound of sense and strong of spirit. Last week at Van Meter. Iowa, death came to white-bearded, 85-year-old Samuel H. Cook who 20 years ago first inspired Cartoonist Darling with his rural character. Mr. Cook appeared at Mr. Darling's office door at the Des Moines Register. Declared Mr. Darling last week: "As I looked up I saw a commanding figure 6 ft. tall, with the strength of a giant in his powerful hands and arms. With his ruddy cheeks, blue overalls and a kindly twinkle in his eyes, he struck me as being the ideal representative of the Iowa agriculturist." But Mr. Cook was no farmer. Born in New York State, he had lived in Iowa more than half a century, first as a grain dealer, later as a farm implement merchant.

A "Ding" substitute in the Tribune syndicate is Edward Scott Brown who once sought gold in the Klondike, later found it on his bristol-board. He, like "Ding," uses no idea man.

A famed Republican cartoonist who has not participated in this year's campaign because of illness is John Tinney McCutcheon of the Chicago Tribune. In his stead the Tribune's editorial policies have been faithfully illustrated by Carey Cassius Orr. The Orr cartoons, many of them telling complete comic strip stories such as the labored transposition of "Garner of Texas" into "Garner of Taxes" are models of geometrical precision.

Two other Republican cartoonists whose work has helped the G. O. P. campaign are Quincy Scott of the Portland Oregonian and Vaughn Richard Shoemaker of the Chicago Daily News. With ideas better than execution Cartoonist Scott has specialized on the economic aspects of the race while Cartoonist Shoemaker keeps thumping the "pork-barrel." The latter, aged 30, taught cartooning at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts for eight years.

Next to the Hearst papers the Scripps-Howard chain has pounded the Republican lines hardest with political pictures.

Two prime pounders: Rollin Kirby of the New York World-Telegram and Harold Morton Talburt of the Washington News. Mr. Kirby, scholarly and artistic, has a distaste for the Opper type of cartoon with its dialog in balloons. He was the pride of the old New York World. He and Talburt were both active in the 1928 campaign and the slogans of that fight echo through their work this year (see Kirby's

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