With Unfailing Results 

• 1931 
• Pease, Lute 
• Drawing 
• Historical item 

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Drawings / paintings

With Unfailing Results

37 x 28 cm

1931

Original editorial cartoon on card in ink and crayon for the Newark (New Jersey) Evening News, 1931, shows George W. Wickersham (1858-1936), appointed in May 1929 by President Herbert Hoover to head the National Committee on Law Observation and Enforcement, popularly known as the Wickersham Commission, stirring up a ‘hornet’s nest’ on the ‘enforcement question’ with his pen (the Wickersham report of January 1931). The Commission was an 11-member group charged with identifying the causes of criminal activity and with making recommendations for appropriate public policy. The emphasis was almost entirely on the widespread violations of alcohol prohibition. The Commission documented the widespread evasion of prohibition and the numerous counterproductive effects it was having on American society in their report, primarily written by August Vollmer. Rather than recommending the repeal of prohibition, as many expected, it recommended that much more aggressive and extensive law enforcement should be employed in an effort to force compliance. The ‘unfailing results’ of continuing to try and enforce Prohibition will be more problems, more graft and crime and further undermining of the law and government. Card size 37 x 28 cm (14.75 x 11 inch), image size 35 x 27 cm, signed lower right, caption written in ink in lower border. Some card loss at all four corners, and fold line along the width, otherwise in very good condition.