TUESDAY—AUGUST 15, 1944 MONITOR-LEADER MOUNT CLEMENS, MICH.* 11 “They were nbt cruel to us. •y For the most part they kept FREFKLES AKD III* FRIENDS MERRILL SLOSSIR Villages • ' Prosperous French much to themselves. Some did BARBS Some mo named lard smith or- | (—And if hf mister., up THERE ? Y )/ Well. THAife vwiw attempt to become friendly with DCRED A SPFCJAL USED CAR HASN'T RFAILV ) WOULD THINK I'M Knew Hunger Under Nazis our young women but I am Even among horses it helps a sid we finally picked one up 1 got »t, vougoup g^YOt^ happy to say with but few ex- your popularity to have a lot HF SOUNDED LIKE A KiD OVFR. I'LL J TO THE TOP Most Hod' Soys Emaciated -- 'Boche Took of What We of sugar. THE PHONE BUT «E SAID HE OF THAT ceptions our girls would have O — French Cure;. Paid For Goods But Money Worthless W nothing to do with them. There • B * TO^ RNC^LARD^^^^ By S. J. WOOLF INDUSTRIOUS FOLK was one poor little orphan whom Political parties make it pos- NEA Mtaf( ( nr respondent Born near Caen, he came here one of the Germans wanted to sible for us to tell how prosper- WITH THE AMERICAN AR- when he was 30 years old. Since marry. He was willing to have ous and how poor we are at MY IN NORMANDY For 38 then he has held daily masses, me perform the ceremony, but I the same time. years Emile Levenuc has been baptized the babies, officiated at refused and showed the girl how • • ? the cure of a little village about marriages and recited the burial foolish she was. After that the A professor says mosquitoes three miles behind the German service over the graves in the Germans viewed me with sus- will not bite a moving object. lines. He is a little man with a church yard. The 200 members picion. and even those who were Now we know why a messenger large goitre which gives him an of His parish have whispered Catholics stayed away from boy is always scratching. their to him • almost grotesque appearance. sins and consulted church.” • • him when they w ere troubled. IW |l «. put. S-flj As he toddles along the one r The Cure wanted me to see In the south they pluck the tY wi M.Vtt IK T we. u. a— of the village He regrets that most of them > “ m» » street which the interior of his church, a part cotton and in the east t’ ?y pluck / '~y *\ x boasts, long cassock, are not more religious and th%t ( CPss-sst/ TVVes. but vou had a nerve ¦ wearing a of which was built in the 12tn the pluckers. HE A Mioosh, lard— ) Lard Ls you're gonna talk THAT " HAS ORDERING B»G CAR YOU wav a large cape and a biretta on his they turn to God only when they first a motor- SMITH. you 111 cancel sapphire ajcck- century. Although shells pass • • • / GONE COULDN'T PAY FOR / S 7 the • , A are > waving gray hair, he might be in trouble. OCR LARD/ ftOAT-.-THEN TD LACE LOR DC RED FOR YOU/J over it nightly, it has escaped j -l-/ /OUGHT < The path of a lot of family Ik 12-CVLINDFC YOUR , mistaken for one of the sturdy I .-/HAVE "I Although, like most French damage except for a few small troubles loads from the frying ?GOLD'BUBBLE V women of the town. villages, ~T f V this one gives the im- hits in its belfry. He pointed out pan int othe courts. BURST, , V cfe-Ji'74 I caught my t first glimpse of pression of extreme poverty, M. its architectural peculiarities, • » • EMBARRASSING ) him when he was coming across le Cure says, “No. we were not a and called attention the fact to A lot is at stake these days—- iy iR| the fields to this camp in order poor people. Up to the time the that its glass windows explain stained and your tomatoes ought to be to listen to the radio in Germans took the town we on the north side smaller had were by this time. French. For, as is to be expected no poverty here. This land is than those on the south. He re- for a luxurious church • • • of a priest, whose small the richest in France. We had marked on the beauty of the of has suffered from the shells more meat, butter, eggs and choir as compared w ith the nave Let’s settle it for all time and opposing armies, M. le Cure is forget about it! The answer to milk than wf e could use. Our and said. “This is as it should FALSELY ASSUMED deeply concerned with the out* people are hard working and in- be. for it is in the choir of a “Is it hot enough tor you?” is Jgp. come of the war. dustrious we lived well off church that God the YES! JAM resides; house be- • • • He lives in a tiny our land. Our needs were small nave is for the people.” side the church with a peasant and they were more than filled. If you’re on a war job. take family. He has a small room off a tip from mouse w*ho ran jmmmhha“ —: —\ the the chaperon . r “Then the Boche arrived and You're miss fv/H at I dunno. l WHATS WRONG, ) MILPA AND I MAD AN ACGOI the kitchen. A large table oc- VITAMIN C FROM ROSES up the clock. He was on time. AN s N,Cf &°v ] \T, ’ HAPPENED He DIDN'T* LEAVING . ~ P I'M * * * iP-J^' WCLLjae LARD fJ /^MT-AND PUNISHING cupies much of the floor space took most of w’hat we had. They ASKED ME TO DANCE / MAY L? /*** T£r LARD Town & J Wild roses which thrive in JCOME HE PDR soon/ her/ but its walls are filled with occupied the best rooms in our The dry cleaners aren’t get- irSCEMS A SHAME jffi the English countryside are re- / CfcrA/siLV. Camp/ $ books ( photographs, statues and houses and lived well on what ting in on the gravy nowadays. ME MISSING ALL «3yl cognized as richer natural n f TVUS BSSSL bas reliefs. A hanging clock we produced. What they did not Too bsy to bother w’ith ties. FUN/ sources of vitamin C than citrus * • loudly and two cats walk- eat themselves they shipped off • ticked fruits. The vitamin is extracted ed in and out when I was there. —w’hcre I do not know’. About the only weather fore- from the rose’s seed case; in It is not a tidy room. The table “Sometimes they went you can absolutely depend 1943 a 500-ton harvest of rose- cast was littered with papers and through the motions of paying on is summer, fall, winter and tips w’as gathered commercially. tomato cans in which flowers for what they took but we could spring. were growing and old papers do nothing with the money they • • i were piled high on shblves. But gave us. There was almost noth- Human bones about 10,000 The Russians have turned the the confusion apparently did not ing to buy and one cannot eat years old were found in Cali- German goose-step into a duck bother him. money. fornia in 1943. for cover. BOOTS AND IIUK BIIDOIES By EDGAR MARTIN •> * RED RYDER FRED HARMAN ,Vb NT • GVL 1 VOYiX TY\\X G\S CORK rrwb lfTq B * T"1 StoLYV TO jj Sfc ‘bURTOVbZ’O TO ii OG>!jr£ VAJSO > ni." i t-MWH ¦: P • WHO'S!flTHtT THKR 1 GOT TICKETS \ 7SURE,f\OUSE.'\ I | / SCOUWI V MM/—v. MAH . PRINTED fOR IAV \ Vl’lLDO SCONE \ l«E SELL TICKETS 1 SHOW, REP'CvU/ <. ,i SCOUTIN' ) LI OR SC ALP*DPI ) o keowt —. TOUSE ¦E\&^EPWT^g '•- * »T I - COn> ¦«» —v*«. *O. Tw. ** 6VZ- V\KV\ COM\ AOOT V^YO Va}V\Y\ bqcket \ /sure' ra m tor) A\Q VAFNK^ TO.JoliANOUSE ARNOo I one 1 OV .TO *WVI ?HO\\\y GIVE HER VBa} 8- IDEAS^> WNKXbDOM COMt l ALI.CV »«¦> By V. T. HAMLIN WAKII TI BBS By LKSLIE TURNER •¦ • wrve HSOVBX - > . 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