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Description: This cartoon by Wes Brown depicts a woman labeled "PUBLIC HEALTH" in a garden. One plant holds a baby and is tagged "OUR CHILD LIFE - THE MOST DELICATE MOST PRECIOUS AND MOST IMPORTANT THING IN OUR COMMUNITY". The sun is blocked by smoke coming from smoke stacks tagged "THE SMOKING CHIMNEY THAT REFUSES TO CORRECT ITSELF". Weeds around the smoke stacks are labeled, "LACK OF INTEREST", "PRIMITIVE METHODS", "INDIFFERENCE", and "REFUSAL TO CO-OPERATE". Inside the sun is written, "THE SUN'S RAYS THE MOST HEALTH GIVING QUALITY IN THE UNIVERSE". Within the smoke is written, "SOOT, SULPHUR AND GAS LADEN CARBON BLANKET COVERING OUR CITY". The cartoon asks, "CAN WE PLANT DELICATE ROSES UNDER A SHADE TREE AND EXPECT THEM TO THRIVE? CAN WE REAR OUR CHILDREN UNDER A BLANKET OF SMOKE AND CONSIDER THAT WE ARE DOING OUR FULL SHARE TOWARD PRODUCING IN THEM HEALTHY BODIES?" View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B04F58_002
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry; Cartoon & Satire; Pollution
Places: Youngstown Sheet & Tube Audiovisual Archives