‘Ding’ cartoon of the month
REFUGE/DDWS
The J.N. “Ding” Darling National Wildlife Refuge’s namesake, Jay Norwood “Ding” Darling, rarely missed an opportunity to make a political point on federal holidays during his Pulitzer Prize-winning, 50-year reign as an editorial cartoonist. This one, titled “Safe and Sane: These Fourths of July are hard on the boys who have to sit and look on,” published in July of 1921, deals with imperialism and foreign relations with the Philippines at the time. The “Ding” Darling Wildlife Society-Friends of the Refuge owns the copyright of the “Ding” Darling cartoons.