New Year's Challenge
A ragged, bearded figure marked '43 with a scythe and hourglass says '...If you do it, Sonny, your name will go down in history!' to a baby marked 1944 who sprinkles a salt shaker toward the tail of a dove labelled 'Peace'. The tell is glittering generalities: 'peace' and 'history' as positive symbols in the traditional old-year, new-year frame, with the cartoon arguing the new year could be remembered for bringing peace.
Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon
- Date
- December 31, 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Washington Evening Star (cartoonist Jim Berryman)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Cartoon
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Reassure
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Records of the U.S. Senate, Jim Berryman Political Cartoons (NAID 5730852), retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Jim Berryman, Washington Evening Star. National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the U.S. Senate, 5743130 (NAID 5743130).
Text on the object
...IF YOU DO IT, SONNY, YOUR NAME WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY ! '43 1944 PEACE
