All right, boys, let's get that stuff out of here for the duration CD...

CALL NUMBER:CD 1 - Berryman (C.K.), no. 217 (A size) <P&P>[P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:_ _ _ _ _

SUMMARY:World War II cartoon shows James M. Landis, new head of the Office of Civilian Defense, rolling up his sleeves, directing two workmen to remove a pile of sports equipment including tennis rackets, bowling balls and pins, croquet mallets, and dancing shoes from the office. A paper reading "Presidential Order Streamlining O.C.D. for War" sits on his desk. The Office of Civilian Defense as originally established was directed to promote physical fitness as well as carrying out more traditional civil defense duties. When word began to leak out, however, that this included emphasis on sports such as bowling and table tennis and on recreational folk dancing, there was an uproar. In February 1942, the original director, Mayor Fiorello La Guardia of New York, resigned as did Eleanor Roosevelt who had been on the staff. Landis, the new head, abolished the Physical Fitness Division and focused on more fundamental matters such as air raid shelters, sand buckets and sirens.

MEDIUM:1 drawing.

CREATED/PUBLISHED:1942 April 18.

CREATOR:

Berryman, Clifford Kennedy, 1869-1949, artist.

NOTES:

Probably published in: The Evening star (Washington, D.C.).

(DLC/PP-1945:R2.210)

mm / 860115; ljr / 020301.

Sources: Hoehling, Home front USA, p. 36-41; Lingeman, Don''t you know there''s a war on, p. 34-39 -- ljr

SUBJECTS:

Landis, James McCauley, 1899-1964.
United States. Office of Civilian Defense--1940-1950.
World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--United States.
World War, 1939-1945--Civil Defense--United States.

FORMAT:

Editorial cartoons American.
Drawings.

PART OF:Cartoon Drawings (Library of Congress)

REPOSITORY:Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGITAL ID:(digital file from intermediary roll film copy) acd 2a05922

CONTROL #:acd1996000536/PP

Pop Art Machine Code: acd-2a05000-2a05900-2a05922