Giving proper credit.

• Author: Konopacki, Mike
• Position: WE HEAR YOU - Letter to the editor

While it was a joy to see the rare publication of an editorial cartoon in your July-August issue (page 17), I was dismayed that The Progressive didn't give proper credit to the cartoonist, John Baer, known in his day as the "dean of labor cartoonists." Baer worked extensively during the Progressive and New Deal eras. In fact, he is credited with coining the phrase "New Deal" in a 1931 cartoon.

Baer was also a Wisconsin native, born in Black Creek in 1886. He graduated from Lawrence University in Appleton in 1909. His mother was the poet Libbie C. Baer. He moved to North Dakota and was elected to Congress in...