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...Cartoonist Darling . . . had done the job of saving the nation's wild life fully as well as any other one man could have done it. ... He has actually turned some 900,000 acres of submarginal land over to his beloved ducks and other animals. . . . Tears welled in Chief Darling's eyes when his Bureau employes stepped up to hand him a shotgun as a parting gift...
Thus last week did pungent Cartoonist Jay Norwood ("Ding") Darling, who had done the job of saving the nation's wild life fully as well as any other one man could have done it, explain his resignation as Chief of the U. S. Bureau of Biological Survey...
When Secretary Wallace persuaded Cartoonist Darling, a lifelong conservationist, to leave his desk at the Des Moines Register & Tribune year ago last March, Ding sped to Washington with high hopes of spending $50,000,000 to turn 12,000,000 acres of submarginal U. S. farm land into breeding grounds for wild fowl, refuges for other game. The plan seemed to fit in beautifully with both the New Deal's agricultural and relief programs. But getting money out of a bureaucracy, Chief Darling soon discovered, was slower than wading through a duck marsh. When he set out to restore...
...Times accepted it like a shot and suspended its holy vow for that day. But it promptly returned to its own Republican nomenclature the following morning and recently it carried a cartoon showing Uncle Sam rather pitifully reminding the President again that the name is Hoover, not Boulder. The cartoonist, apparently a defeatist, depicted the President as oblivious of the request...
...president's sons dignify the Freshman roster this year, but the son of a "retired rear admiral" and one of a "federal coordinator of transportation" lend gravity to a scene lightened somewhat by the son of a cartoonist. The son of a psychiatrist and the son of a chiropodist run the anatomic gamut from head to foot. The year's mystery man is the son of "a paving-cutter," an occupation with a slightly sinister sound to these of us, who always thought that pavements got that way from traffic...