Date: April 5, 1920
Caption: All Dressed Up And Nowhere To Go
Description: Rainstorms prevented Washington area children from their annual sport,
rolling Easter eggs on the White House lawn. Cartoonist Clifford Berryman uses this
situation to describe a scene of great national debate, approving or rejecting the peace
agreement to formally end World War I and to create a League of Nations. Sharing the
children’s disappointment is a youthful Uncle Sam with his basket of “peace plan” Easter
eggs and his sidekick, Teddy Bear, standing by a White House pillar gazing skyward at the
“Anti-Treaty Storm”.
By: Clifford Berryman
Source: NARA, Washington, DC, Center for Legislative Archives. U.S. Senate Collection