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‘Ding’ cartoon of the month

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As we look back on the presidential election and forward to Valentine’s Day wooing, this cartoon, drawn by Jay Norwood “Ding” Darling in 1932 and published on the front page of the Des Moines Register on Feb. 14 may bring a smile to your face. Darling’s political cartoons often had a whimsical, tongue-in-cheek tone. But he was dead serious about conservation issues, which often were the topic of his daily cartoons back in his time, and ultimately resulted in the creation of his namesake, the J.N. “Ding” Darling National Wildlife Refuge. The “Ding” Darling Wildlife Society-Friends of the Refuge owns the copyright of the “Ding” Darling cartoons.