Knday, Augu>t 22, b IMI K (i .< v &6UU) COMICS 1941 PAGE 22 U 1 Ui i t. V IxCi umUM BLONDIE Listen to "Blondle" Each Monday at 6:30 P. M. Over Ktntion WJR By r' ie Young Daitff Shari Story Piiiiu^T7 - .; 11 i prn ¦.i|ipnmi]i’ m|!,, OJ WELP ’ < BUSV / WUV I'LL WeX . MeF !M SO fcOMC? I ( WE WER BATH; v IM GO»Kk3 TO Gh/E 1 UAVENT TIME TO ) (CXXXfE ) ) ( p(?IGUTE>JEC> J 6VE RA9Y < V-* -I KNOW Zs COOCE A 3ATVI Z COME j n SEEM ? < ZLZ L- wow US '— 'lt’s the Lav/ batm yJ , Rv CHARLF* McC.riRK BUCK Bv Clyde Lewis ' i"|N'E of the first things tha’ PRIVATE endeared the New Peal to the the Old Apr *****^ American public wa* Camp 00 $ Jm Pension. l"nder it. fbr various j pta*p* of -jB vv ere to take rare such g people as had reached the rip old age of 65 jL The states wrrr not to humor them. It ua» carefully uwkH on* Investigators and scientists anrl dotois none of them 65 or figured to ihe la-t ever 40 down j ’«! Kirg ate. I*v , Wofid ngbt* r«rivw4 / Ffdum 1.. I —. ——— penny what it would cost tv'-vear- e old men and women to eat and , (Starring Popeye) Now Showing—“lnterrupted Call!" Tomorrow—“lmpossible Request" clothe and shelter themselves THIMBLE THEATER against the hea’ of Summer, the *hc cold of Win- chill of Autumn. *' and the inertia of Spring' X ter HAFTA HOLD -\ was TveR'LL >- . WIMPV The amount of the pension l\!'l o A i OKAV. f\ ¦f- designed strictly for living It left THE ’PHONE A T-jZ WHATCHA WAMT I)ZS which to (—) CRACK !J 1 margin with U no of mono} MIMKIIT, ;-;-W " raise hell It was sls a month ! TiM?' hnP ''S nP c-S" V m'Vv »7u«t try to figure out how any- body 05 or not. can rut up didoe« on sls a month. Nobody can do it. you sa>. Well now. there's where you are wrong It ran he done. It has hern done Grandma Turh did it. Grandma Turh not only fed and clothed and warmed herself but she took tax. rahs for long distances, wore the very best of riot lies and ate the choicest of viands She asTTeiT for and got all kinds of service, fraying for it on the nose and ai the scene With hills of large denomination By Disney ¦¦ Walt * 1‘ « l ?*•¦.»- Visii • •A* +4* ? Grandma, it is tme. is no longer I t• DONALD DUCK Fortification! ~ on Relief or rather she is no j longer a ward of her state. She “I don't urc whether vou like the outfit or not. I’m baking off the pension rolls was thrown cake (or the General’s birthday and in the l i"'X' thn YOU'RE Xr fc “ OuC-vsO IS! i I|. -f U IF p%| : ' / a investigator e L>On after who : female — .'f ?''ss-- I V°\r .’ t / I s-v. | L\Jy(t j0)!....)' I [<' | 0 *•" J had been disappointed and di-ap- recipe!” 1 U <sr-s• I —/*7 . pointing in love certified that the 'jt gx . [i ’ / old girl was full of moral turpi- -I Ou V . Inu can't because there ain’t it in the j>ool room and in the bar- i.L SPLIT fv fi«l ?f J tude. 1- Recause of this, she could not any. So It ain’t a sin to gamble. room personally and he had agents rousww*/ h lj IA / I , be UfcSaUB eat or be clothed or sheltered It’s foolishness because all scouring the town for bpts of anv society. by the state. In civilized losers are suckers ami there can size whatsoever. there is some unwritten law that only be few But He a good odds the wicked should not only not a winners. ran hook. His were right his limit on a bet prosper but should he encour- being a sucker's no sin. It'* and was a long shot. aged to pensh. a gift. What do you like in 30-to-2 on just One of his agents, a man named THEY SHOI Ln PERISH the fifth race?" Sammy, dug up Grandma. She in in the station when No* that Grandma is wicked Well. Grandma lived Urban- was railroad in either direc- *^* *s~— bemoan- ton tip to the large no train was due s ~— ,r w C’j not that is 1937- with *, V;; ¦» . And Grandma tion asking the ?, "r. ing the loss of her pension. Grand- majority of her descendants. Rut and she was ticket 5 state she agent if he knew where she could Listen to "Bringing tp Father" each Tuesday at 8 p. m. over Station WXYZ. Different! ma says that the which the police raided a horse room in BRINGING UP FATHER That's inhabits and all the investigators place a small bet on a horse. that town afternoon and up to her and asked and other political parasites one Sam sidled A 1 ADY CM TMf MOW; MAMV TIAZFt WMV- MR THIS to bet. rT s f *t> arq not turpitude Grandma was picked up with some her how much she wanted PMOt MOJST I VOU HAiS*> DOTTV C»AVAT- */.tz ! M therein full of TELL. k " ~ dollar -- She said she'd risk a half -ortep vjho ! .. mjgo totOwu's Ofp< . but jealousy. other and taken 1o the ¦ PCXSKA to n*JD out I well-HELLO- e- v hettors - on a horse named Snookoms. Sam TML call l*b IT I5P <XJ guow r j WHAT DO TOU I'M SPFAXING POO *AG> 1 <V ' ' L She goes right on doing from police slation in patrol wagon. -- a the paid $lB FOR AAV WIFE ALWAYS | WANT? I AM V_ TOTOA/fsi J OH AAiF.*b took bet. Snookoms " day to day what the stale pushed of course, --J CALLS WHEN GHE r BUL)V- T v. r - ! CPAZAT- She was released, for $2. Grandma won $4. LI, v DON J her off the pension roll for doing tO SHOPPIM’ J TALK ALL ' > |h-j_ • . HOVv DO after a few hours in jail but the and she built ¦ And having a grand time That was her nut she's New York newspapers wrote it judicious betting | Grandma was 78 when some- up by over a stories about her because she was $l5O. She body told her that she could get permd of three weeks to a horse player at her age. Her met Joe Goody during the build- sls a month from the state in family ihen held a conclave and her ing. which she had lived all life delivered an ultimatum to her. for going on living. Joe conceived a great ndmira- "You’ll either have to stop her. encouraged her "You’re dishing out nia- lion tor He me young- larky." she told her informer. playing the horses." her when she told him she'd like to "or we’ll see them at She talked like that She was est son told her. quit go run Belmont. a spirited old lady who wore a supporting you.” Grandma wa- gone two weeks. her hat and he feathered!" She came back with $2,154.62, featner in and a feather "I both boa around her neck. She had Grandma retorted promptly. after paying her fare ways reading tip before expenses. Joe raised three daughters and two was sheets and all was so im- sons. any of you arrived in this pressed that he whispered the They, turn increased and world." i story around with plenty of awe A Pair of Suspects! in had to exile Grand- in his whispers. TOOTS AND CASPER multiplied so that she had eight So Ihoy decided her got reporter grandsons and five granddaughters ma from Urhanton. They sent It to the ears of a 3UT IT'S THAT'S OKAY NO, 1 / TWE BOOKS WERE \ to HO mile* away. They Hangar who corresponded Vs CASPEQ.7RE A IT’S SERIOUS / And they, in turn had married and Elivah. named AjpiTOffS ’ f ME, A ( Th=YRE JUZr£LE2 ASP THE U HERSONS <V. had her maintenance well worked for a New’ York paper. He sent LONESOME WiTWOOT TOOTS-M Ac?E WITW THERE'S SHORTAGE! begat 14 great grandchildren. SHE AND MABEL LEPT F HERE, / BOSS — OUR 914 000.%? N CASH / CRAZY! MONEY TAh.'EN CRQM LO'ttCs ' Grandma all them at out. An Elivah hank was given the story’ in after interviewing liked of a TODAY POP A WEEK P OVER THE / ARE , HT CANT THE P:RV S SACEI <~Ovn NATOS '•um of money It was Grandma. The New’ York paper BOOKS ISMISSIN&! ' 1 She of a certain ¦ ¦ distance. liked none them at :e„ PißAr,.;. ... up close. They, in their turn, ad- to dole out just enough for Grand- run it with Grandma’s picture. j y on by the pension the mired her and secretly wished to ma to subsist week. The hoard hit ceil- her money ing when it the story. It be as much like her as they dared If Grandma sponi all .read But they didn't care because they in the first two days she starved fold itself it was encouraging vice five. She only and riotous living in an old person all lived in deeply religious rural for ihe other communities and Grandma starved the first week.