PAGE 18 DETROIT EVENING TIMES (PHONE CHERRY 8800) COMICS Monday, April 21, 1941 M DOROTHY BLONDIE Listen to Blondie" Each Monday at 7:3® P. M. Over Station WJll By Chic Young Walter Winchell BLMSTEAD \ BOSS I tUOTO) ARRIVELAST W I /S /^UMST^/TMCTPOU^E^ wucac ARE ) \ BBN<3 MV WIFE AND fIT WQULDVE BEEN FfclE --OR EVEN BUT-Ns// \ ( BUT I*? ) S WTTW VOU *THAT MX) X V // TWEBOMB- <v ( ButBVUOMePBOMTUS ) MEXT MOJTU WOULDVE . VOU UAD TO WAVE N. OfTWBRS-) DOIT THINK „ J ) \ J THOMPSON SKjtJT BLUE- - BEEN . MOSPITAL TODAY AND \ 1 ALLRIGHT J YOUR BABV'TWE CWV ) S. r-S L, J On Broadway PBWTSYOU "N I- _> J J N WEGOT THE Declares: J. wov Vs Trad* Mark R**i»t*r*d Copyright. I*4l. Challenge to Our ldealt Notes of a New Yorker CONSIDINE. Arch MacDonald and others were talking shop Will Put S . in War U. 808and about Damon Runyon's genius ... “I remember once," said Considine, "at a World's Series first game—all of us in the press box snazzy (Ths opinions expressed by ran out of fingernails trying to dream up a lead paragraph. all of us kept tearing the paper out of the typewriter and Thompson ors hor and And Mils own starting over and over again striving to be eleven Except Runyon. not necessarily those of The He began his story ; "Yanks, 2; Reas, 1." Detroit Times.) THE THREE most distinguished Americans to visit England in the past year were Welles. Willkie and Winant. On* alert lad groat wars are fought for suggests that there is a symbolic connotation in the first syllables' VLLpeace. They are showdowns of their names, to wit: WE-lles WILL-kie WIN-ant. THIMBLE THEATER (Starring Papaya) Now Showing—“ Don’t Go ’Way!” Tomorrow—“ Who’s Gotti Dictionary?” to determine the conditions under which hundreds of millions of men Y MV, SNAPOUT OF rT, NEP-lf WORKS ! WORKS'. JIF THAT 6 \ AHOH, VAHCH. POPCNS? EXCUSE VWAfT):\ I FOPaOT TO GrfVE Tl-e \ are to live their peacetime lives \ POPESE WILL BE HERE. HE IWORRW ! •SOMETHING D*A4 JONES,, KIKKi V SOU ARE ME, JU6A I DOWT PORPUSW THA' ©RINGED once the war is over. Ocean, Stay 'Way From My Door ¦ -f/lU NEVER LET'S HAS DELAYED It**(I AM UOTr' NEPTUNE ) J. HERE J MlklNlT .A GO!.' ME HERE AHP-1 HAVE < .Some wars merely seek to bring MILLER, author of "I Cover the Waterfront,'* "Reno" and J about readjustments ot power in- MAXother books, lives in La Jolla, Cal., in a home right on the edge} side a generally accepted interna- of the Pacific The excessive Winter rains, aided by faulty drainage, tional order. There are wars for shoved several tons of the beach sand and dirt down into his base-' adjustment of frontiers, or trans- mrnt and furnace room . Angry, he filed suit against the city for' ference of colonies. damages All he got was a lot of horse laughs and a newspaper! One side wins, and the loser headline which taunted: "Max Miller Used to Cover the Waterfront! emerges stripped of some of its and Now the Waterfront Covers Max Miller." territory, forced, inevitably, to pay the costs of the war, but other- SEVERAL BOOKS about Winston Churchill have come out story lady harped wise intact, and able in another suddenly. One contains the of the who on British generation or two to challenge if war aims. She wanted to know what Britain was fighting for. To it chooses, the power situation which he grimly told her; "If wc left off fighting you would soon again. find out." Such was the Franco-Prussian War of 1R70; such was the Great War of 1914 Gems From Heywood Broun But there are other wars that WOOD BROUN'S best colyums (collected by his son) belong DONALD DUCK A Star Is Born By Walt Disney whole course of his- change the HEYon the required reading lists. (Oh, how he is missed!) ... A tory, end epochs and begin new beautiful, humane philosophy is summed up in these words by Broun: peoples peo- ones, exterminate as "It is not fair that I should thwart and crush great eagerness for ples. and transform all values. existence for the sake of the extremely mild diversion which I get Such a war was Sparta's war from fishing They told me that the fish cared very little and that against Athens; such a war was they were cold-blooded and felt no pain. But they were not the fish Gaul, means, Caesar's against w-hich laid who told me” ... By all read the book. the foundations for the rise of the Roman Empire, to exercise a THOSE LADIES who are being fooled by the Communists, the monopoly over history for hun- Bundists and the Dillings (who use peace talk for bait) should dreds of years. remember this: Nazis believe that the State, not parents, should Such was the series of wars bring up their children . And their sons are taught that the only against the Turks, which finally worthwhile thing in life is to die in war for the fatherland! . drove the Mohammedans out of Don't these ladies realize that they are being used by people who Europe and established the se-j have no use for America—but for their own selfish needs—are just curity of Western Christian civili- using Americans! zation. And such a war is this one. # • • Emily Post Explains Orchid of this war will outcome THOUGHT DEPT; We recently reprinted a determine how humanity is JUST AS WE THE Emily Reader's Digest. It was by Hilde- BRINGING UP FATHER Some Obstruction! going to live for the next epoch OURbit about Post from Germany, or England, garde Dolson. who specializes in hitching her empty wagons to stars Not how ) ? . Mrs. Past (the high priestess of etiquette) was quoted as saying: VOU VOU I SO LONG- 1 or the United States are going to NOW-GIG6S GOT ( BET UAVeJ ITS I }II TWE V ¦¦¦, enough manners to say thank you" . Mrs. noN'T "yOU® I MID EM IN A I SGW- I , 1 jive, but humanity. This is a "He didn't even have PAIL. PELL^OS-lI.L t?EI_AXtM<S- r J clipping the eolyum and "It wasn’t US-WESUOE TICJCETS- SOEA ATWOME- BE B<«r BACK- tS OCCUPIED |SO j MiKID struggle between arid Post encloses the from adds: I*l1 / A fl world-wide WANT VOU I MOPE- ! AN' A HUNDRED ILL<ST , P!GWT NOW- I FEW MOUG>S Mfe£?E- quite like that, and before it goes on to a point where it may be said , j V inside great nations of men It AT TWEYSE • BiUU- ME TICKETS AN j) something worse, I'd like to tell you the story as it really was. TO BE DOLLAP —SrfT v srm Ir\ -v is an international war, and it is I said Disn-V'S j HARD TO SO I'MALLSET- MONEY WSHT J TA (/ l/li ) V war. ‘'The results of your sympathetic broadcast (about her illness • —j c, ...... a civil wonderful—that was over- whether sometime ago) were so amazing—so I This war will determine not only by nearby, but telegraphed the next epoch is to come. Flowers were sent those 1 the peace of away Impulsively I wrote you a note of checks and bal- from as far as California. be kept, ta> by appreciation for Hie kindness w'hich your message had inspired, and. ances to power; lb) by improved and just to amuse you. sent the rarest orchid that could be found. I collective security--federation happened to hear afterwards that you were in California and could commonwealth, with freedom and (Dat groups of not have seen the flower and probably never saw the note. s equality for races and right, lady. I never seed it.) (c) mastery ex- men; by world story about it came out this way: Margaret Harriman in one or two organized "The ercised by her Saturday Eve’g Post article about me, gave the fact that I groups over all the others. sent you an orchid and that'you had not answered my note. Which It also will, of course, determine at that—until Hildegarde Dolson, questioning me for her capi- was left whether the world shall be story, asked: 'Was it true that you sent an orchid to Walter Win- more talist or Socialist. But it will ehell?’ And I answered, ‘Yes' . ‘And he didn't thank you?’ And I sort . -story Star importantly determine what said, ruefully perhaps, ‘No—he didn’t’ . It's a perfectly good TOOTS AND CASPER The Salesman of capitalism, what sort of social- —too good to spoil—but I would like you to know the fact behind it, ism, or what sort of synthesis be- which is that I did not think you ill-mannered for failing to say COL. HOOFKR. YOU'RE JUST THE WIF THIS DEAL AOES I D BETTER W YKS, OF COURSE— 450,000.?? H I COULDN'T tween the two. 'thank you’ for something you knew nothing about, and that's all MAN TO LAND THAT BIG ORDER pTHROUfaH I'LL MAKE I USE A PHONY H NOW fLLPHONE MISS WI'LL DO MY UP MUCH IN • • • THAT A there is to THAT! Very sincerely, Emily Post." FOR US FROM MISS CLARICE ¦ A MILLION PROFIT A NAME, BOSS— [7 PIPPiN AND ARRANiz* T 1 BEST, MR LIFETIME AND HERE THAT ‘socialism’—national PIPPIN, BECAUSE SHE'S TAKEN 3 AND I’LL YOU II INTRODUCE INTRODUCE > PLUNKER-) « \TO' YOU J DUMB Lv APT GERMANsocialism—is Prussian "social- A ....