BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER--
RUSTY, YOU AND
I HAVE TO. GO DOWN TO MAYOR
BALLINGER'S OFFICE -HE BAYS
WE'VE GOT TO
LEGALLY ADOPT THE BABYatra
THE CHINA MAIL FRIDAY SUPPLEMENT, FEBRUARY 21, 1941.
ORDERS FROM HEADQUARTERS! By EDWIN ALGER
"GOSH, YOU
OKIE DOKE,
PALSY WALSY!
· DON'T SEEM'
EXCITED -ABOUT IT-
WHY SHOULD I
BE? OUR LITTLE HONEY "AIN'T GOIN' TO BE NO
TROUBLE
WHAT??!!
SHSHSH! 'GRANDMAW WALTERS IS JEST LIKE
SHE USED TO BE!
SHE'LL TAKE CARE O` THE KID FOR US!
a
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WILL YOU TWO BOYS STOP TALKIN' SO, LOUDĮ I'VE JEB' GOT OUR LITTER SUGAR PUUM TO BLEEP-SCAT, BOTH OF YOU!
..
M..
12-6
TWIN ALGER
RUSTY, YOU'RE
A WONDER!
HOW IN THE WORLD DID YOU SOFTEN UP GRANDMAW WALTERS? GET HER TO STAY, I
MEAN-
SIMPLE, PAL! I WHISPERED
IN OUR LITTLE HONEY'S EAR TO SMILE „AN" COO AT GRANDMAW, AN' THAT'S ALL THAT WAS NECESSARYĮ
WHY, ER...ER.......ER..... WHEN
I SAY "FEMALE INFANT"
I'M MERBLY USING THE
LEGAL DESCRIPTION ------
THE BABY IS UNIDENTIAED,
YOU KNOW
12-8
12-7
By BDWIN ALTERĮ.
£297
SO LET'S HURRY UP AN' GET HER ADOPTED, MY
FR'AN!
.... AND THIS IS
REGARDING AND APPERTAINING TO
ONE FEMALE
INFANT
THAT'S A LOT
σ HOOEY! SHE'S A HUMAN
BGIN' JEST LIKE THE REST
OF US!
奧
FOR
SALE
I DON'T LIKE NO LEGAL DESCRIPTIONE
FASTENED ON A
LITTLE KID-
CAN'T
WR
GIVE
HER A
WHY,
YEB, OF COURSE-
SEE, SHE'S
A HAPPY
LITTLE THING!
HAME?
EDWIN ALGER
SAY, I THINK HAPPY'S
A SWELL NAME! HAPPY
McGURK WEBSTER!
WHY, THAT'S MAGNIFICENT
BERTHA!
BERTHA! OH, MISS
JOSEPH!
YES, MAYOR BALLINGER-
By ROWIN ALGER
298
THEN LET'S CHRISTEN
HER HAPPY!
HAPPY MEGURK WEBSTER! BOY!
THERE'S A
HAME FOR
YOU!
BERTHA, REWRITE THIS ADOPTION FORM, PLEASE-
WE'VE GOT A NAME FOR THE BABY-KAPPY
MEGURK WEBSTER!
THAT'S LOVELY!
LITTLE BY HAPPY JOVE, OF HAPPY THAT'S VALLEY! RIGHT!
GEE, I NEVER
THOUGHT O' THAT! THAT'S
SWELL
· ADVERTISIN'
ADVERTISING OR NOT, IT'S HER
NAME!
500
This war is going to be a much more expensive business than the last.
In 1918 our maximum daily expenditure had reached what then seemed a colossal figure
£7,000,000. This war, which Mr. Churchill visualises as running in- to 1943, is already costing us be tween £9,000,000 and £10,000,- 000 every 24 hours.
An Expensive Business
of
bound in an understanding of our mutual indebtedness will depend whether the next peace will be one dictated by the money bags We have already placed orders or by the desire of intelligent
public opinion on both sides In the United States to the tune the Atlantic to lay the basis of a of some £600,000,000-something
saner international system. more than half of what we can pay cash for. But United States' capacity to help in the matter of supplies is still in its infancy. In time we hope to see the Ameri- can stream become a flood.
Tied To Wall Street
Let us be certain that we shall float into victory on this flood, not flounder into
peace like the last one.
Tariff Frontiers
The last war landed us in a financial mess and in a competi- tive war with America that did a lot to shape the tragic course of the events which culminated in. September, 1939,
Or,
declare them. Here lies the key to the future of Anglo-American cooperation.
The American people will not travel far with us if our rulers have in mind another Versailles happened before, are
They will not under- capitalists to spend money Europe.
as
The orders which are now being placed with United States indus- our try imply a great deal of mutual to build up a rationalised Ameri- write a system that repeats all
us the errors of the last peace. planning and division of labour can industry that will sweep
out of competitive markets when the war ends? as between the two countries.
The American's admit that their industry is being assisted into a high degree of efficiency to meet
By DAVID RAYMOND
It was out of this mess that the United States defence pro- emerged the scramble to build up gramme by the "fighting, experi- tariff. frontiers, which lie much ence" contained in every British War loans helped us to win the more at the root of the present war order. Can this be extended last war; the problems they gave war than the political frontiers into a cooperation that will out- rise to helped us to lose the of Versailles.
last the needs of war and to cater for the new world which Roose- peace.
When France was still our ally velt has visualised as one in Upon whether we shall be tled a joint economy was born, which which there shall be no hungry by the leg to Wall Street or was to continue after the war, people?
And we cannot withdraw into an Anglo-American union that position as a and ignores Britain's These may be unkind. even tactless-questions to raise at Continental Power without the moment when we are seeking coming in effect a colony of American aid in our life-and- greater American Empire.
death struggle.
be- a
The British people's resistance de- Inspired the American
But they are questions that has must be faced. They are bound mocracy to give us help that it up with the question of our war was reluctant to give in the days when our efforts were half- nims. Roosevelt got the majority of the American people to vote hearted and the smell of Munich for him not only because he was still in the air. wanted to help Britain, but also because he had educated them to a conception of a sound peace that must-follow-the-war.
Remember 1931
The British Government is now considering its war alms, and may
If we tell the American people what we are fighting for, what sort of place we want to make of the post-war world, "we shall capitalise the present mood of the two peoples and convert any "as- sistance America gives us into a token of our interdependence.
DAVID RAYMOND.