Monday, Aug. 28, 1933

Black Buzzard

About the land last week was circulating an emblem for citizens who do not become "NRA Members--We Do Our Part." It was a black buzzard labelled "Non-member -- We don't". Its designer was Adam Cooper Warfel, 42, a mechanical engineer employed in St. Louis by Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. who draws cartoons and posters for fun.* Engineer Warfel mailed his emblem to Washington and forgot about it. Fortnight ago salt-tongued Recovery Administrator Johnson went to St. Louis, made an NRA speech in which he said: "

" 'Chiseling' may be a slang word but chiseling is the chief threat to this movement. From your good town of St. Louis there came to my desk the other day a drawing of a turkey buzzard--a sickly opposite of the blue hawk. In his loathsome talons is a chisel. . . . Nothing more apt has come to this administration."

* Designer of the Blue Eagle was Charles T. Coiner, Philadelphia artist. Its originator is supposed to have been Frank Wilson, onetime Sioux City newshawk, Liberty Loan propagandist and now a chicken-raiser at Pawling, N.Y.

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