Cartoon,Old German Peasant,Interstellar Communication,Germany,1920,Wireless

Title: I've been chummy with Mars for years -- it doesn't get you anywhere
Creator(s): Berryman, Clifford Kennedy, 1869-1949, artist
Date Created/Published: [1920]
Summary: Cartoon shows a battered old German peasant with one arm in a sling and a wooden leg seated on a bench holding a paper reading 'Mars Trying to 'Call Up' Earth by Wireless Signals According to Noted Scientists.' At his feet lie torn papers reading 'Program to Dine in Paris in [the years 1914-1918 crossed out]' and 'Plan to Conquer the World.' A dachsund lies next to him. The peasant reflects morosely that being 'chummy' with Mars doesn't get you anywhere. The cartoon, drawn shortly after Germany was defeated in World War I, reflects the view of Germany as a militaristic nation. In January 1920, scientists were excited by a report of wireless instruments picking up strange signals that some interpreted as interplanetary communication. Efforts to interpret such messages in April 1920 ended in failure.
Notes:
Probably published in: The Evening star (Washington, D.C.)
(DLC/PP-1945.R1.19)
mm / 860122; ljr / 020213.
Source: New York times, 1920, Jan. 27, p. 7; Jan. 31, p. 24; Apr. 23, p. 17 ljr
Subjects:
Interstellar communication--1920
Peasants--Germany--1920.
International relations--Germany--1920.
Mars (Planet)--1920.
Drawings.
Editorial cartoons--American.
Bookmark /acd1996000704/PP/
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