Phaw l as you say. . .First of all the 8:02 is been changed to the 10:39 so if it comes in at all today it'll be early. 4 Why is the 8:02 late? Why? 1 been waitin' a hour! Early? But 1 had this checked last Could be it’s Fe r. £ 9. I923?y There airit even no Y No 1923? I aivCt been bad the re There ain’t 192 3 anymore. The A in 32 years— I’ll never forge: no Feb. 29 i gummint tore it down l V'W’hy does the gummint chance in 1923! A and built a milk bar. )/ everythin’? _ WRgf 1923 1 gKj was a io\ \ perfectly rtgHk 9 ood i Oh boy! I’ll never^ I did, too— I \l hollered s forget hollerin’ hollered mine . mine into a "Down with the into a closet, A paper bag— gummint" in 1923. k ) J got it here Who was the Czar that year—? Babe Roose? No, he was the Sultan of Swa t, Swat was nice my Sure, but who the Summer, but was the Czar? the mosquitos! J I voted for my / ' Nyat! j — / mother but she 111 v ,, — ( never made it. J The Czar— I think: ~ ~ Kenesaw Mountain somebody— it was somebody. I’m sure of that. Somebody? ’ That’s it— I knew it was a name like thaiNaturaV. . What a man'. — — Nobody ) Natural ~Jm& / yep, nobody natural. Ti he iras Czar :j: 2923. Comrade? While youre up. How did you disguise ) your holler into J the closet? j — — ^ — WhenI \( ( hollered “Down I l with the gumminf Yes— ( I hollered hee hee j hee hee— hee \I hollered \ heel V ( Of course some people might misinterpret: ^ — “One -two -three -four— Oh boy! Great! Great'. Great! Naturally I j disguised it You’re clever, comrade, clever as a badger- clever and courageous! Where’s the smoker, cap? WhoolWhoo! W Whee—ooop! Chug-chug-gug-gug aing ding dingt height on time — twelve noon sharp! Hold it'. Hold it'.y/i Head car- ’board! Chug! Chug'. Chug! Chug! Sorry, the train’s movin | Don’t jump, you fool! Oh, when will they learn to not jump for a moving train? y He's a goner Oog Y Good for youjl was held up! oog comrade'. We ' The reindeer goosh might have had a < goop broken our J( blowou t ) whoof! j string! ^ ^ He’S Right! Our regular morning game, uninterrupted j for thirty-six years— you y ( can stop for tiitn! S by one we Wit’s nostalgic, ridin ’^Yes, the little YAvi VJomblit, Commissar lost them.^l by the spots where j mounds— / in^ charge of celery— they dropped out. J Hunnicker, I who will 1 4 there , was in l be next? ) " cream cheese V. down on the I M* * TP" street. J/ \ J Your turn. As a gent’man I aini\flt wasn’t a gone itl -vite you to ' complete miss- play an then tee-fuse you the privilege. Go ahead, it's youv Aw, gosh, gentlemen, 1m just a ordinary worker— I don’t want to intrude myself into the company of— is a hero of J anybody the nation. / else. we love you just as if you were as good as us. <- No, no, I just want to pull pull the sledge ' But you makeYWe dont care{ Sure, we^(l love the < us out to be . / if you’re ugly , revere him \ worker segregationists. [ or stupid. A because he \more than the sledge I love the great . No. , I love him hero of our nation . more. Isay phoo who is the working kon the fact that dog more than anyjj^y/he is trash', other man and/or fd m /Disregard his any other beast. ) \ \ MS lowly station . I share all things with him — my i pleasure, sir'. You play a hanawithus. Yes, >, it shows . e are all brothers. we 1 / QQi It's nice to be accepted in the upper circles. This is a real thrill, believe me. Perhaps I should yVo no— we'll remove my hat as a keep mark of respect— to my memory. But my memory\f What! is more plaid, ar£ Saboteur! besides, the hat ~ is gummint How thoughtless "^Exactly— we must] If this works out of me! If I had blew play fair. a hole in the hat y\L I’d of lost my job. ) f/Jf like it might, uh—who will pull the \ ? sledge? ) £ You’re gutnwiint property too ! How dare you twice attempt to destroy the motherland’s 5 holdings? xCgtfS You’re a enemy agent attempt- ing to wreck our railway system by sabotaging our power supply! I’d commit suicide except somebody’d take. Oh, I hope our\Shows what youf We got timeyVot only is he not fnv / f or one more ) barred from this hand. / game henceforth , but he may even be shot. noble scientists get for inviting invent a live- La pig into the for-ever serum \ parlor , „ so I can work A work and work Jws&r 1 and work! Aj £ £ Mi 'Click! ; Right. ( We'd kavejo take 1 our business to £ America. Here we only got one rail- road.- no competition, cfm. That's our trouble, y nsM'l 'Thank you, beloved rulers. Well, here’s the terminal. We should think about boycotting hyrr^,y\ >\ this tool of the saboteurs-we should take our business elsewhere. Would that loyal? be That working dog \ Vyfl hadn’t jjbeen cursed f with a strong I mind and a I weak back S' I could be 7 in his spot is monopolizing 1 business because he's the last one working. jJGk Well, into the conference room'. I’ve been incubating a nest of gilt edge eggs. I’ve given our ideas the fuUmother , 'Hullo, Mother Henningij Gentlemen, you recall those jewels we threw into the well to see the ripples — — " — ~7 rise? All week-end Ive been C nesting them. I’ve been m'Zy V ? mother kenning . . . // 'How do you spell “He blew up the Dnieper Dam?” 1 never Now I’Ll just sprinkle these blossoms around so we can run through the field barefooted and find out where the thorns are. Let me just hang it out on the line where you can blow at it and cool it o rf u it's called t Invention of We sell to the worker, the nobility of our nation, a subscription to a new invention each month. Our research men here can cut the string on this and stratosphere. I There’s the fuse, it’s up to our research men to stuff some powder in the cannon — what kina of tinsel can you hang on that tree, brains? Well---fwe could invent , something for June... True, we could invent the wheel — it's novel — that I would be nice for June. Fnv> TuLt ,,«>7 you’re murdering }We'd be just ) What couMinvent 1 the oysters but lone step more two wheels. J P^rls---) away from / would M What would rr-' perfectm ] you you do with < the tricycle! J need? two wheels ?} Well, a good tricycle (You look [\fect ought to have a seat.) doubtful, \ < comrade. V-> rrf 'And the dee-looks model has a steerin . committee. These cigarsd Well, they you spread out) is, sausages'. Mixed with the ideas I tossed at you was my lunch. ’em as saus- ages -oog! Tney's anew brand— made of rubber — last for years. Oh— well, as sausages they makes pertygood cigars. ( Oog - - you 'V' Now, comrade, you spun a clinker ought to try into your last spider web there. You said a good tricycle ought to have a seat — the noble working fish of our nation t doesn’t need a seat— . he doesn’t even need \ C a good tricycle. v , . m While you were wadin’ ashore with the salvage there I detected a lighted lantern in your duffle bag. What did you sa y a J"7 tricycle takes? i y . "i mostly. > If it's a . Y Good! Now you are I P no-good tricycle he needs, putting lace on your pancakes— a no-good tricycle takes three we can '\wheels, a few rods, some guarantee .space and courage, satisfaction, p finger is a two — two wheels. Two ? Well, that’s ” 'Seems to me you kicked over a coin in the treas- ury of your mind there before— two wheels. That right? K, Somewhere there you had Jit's whar] a hold of a rainbow but Q. T.j you work the warts off this bonanza— use PV. to , help— X.Y and O.R. come with me. 1 got a idea what's too big for indoors, i //] ^^che ckva * T*^[?Czech. Id I wondered why it was such a short trip > Yl home, i In betweenly. cure a bona fide LadyYNext time take (Gosh— if the syndi- kiss your yl off your cate takes fifty per hand, comrade. / cigar\ j cent- an’ we split ^ . / l- { the rest— I II be . Yowtchl'Tv \ V rich! How much lor years-- always wondered where all the brooms come from. < Funny— I been leavin’ Yrhat’s whatT Y It’s because by that closet door ( like about you\ of my comrade, you’re \brains— always thinkihj I do all ^mythinkih with my own head. 'W ‘ Have a sausage— do you realize ’ The minute you invents the wheel that were upstream salmon l you and me can be top dog in the with a Clearfield to spawn Yt cat fight — fifty per cent of the £ J r - 7 invention goes to the syndicate, composed of me — then you and 1 will split the rest— fair enough? TSFair?! out the invention of the wheel and the open sea lies aheadP Let me stick a fork into that V In this y^Psst, [They got it! before you take it out of the ' country, ] cowraafeS^r-r — -r^ oven, comrade— maybe SOItlC l everything ( what do V / “mr Zr<\ people tvant / isuphiw \ you hear? Juhcszf ( k \ — 7 to go downhill./ There is HO L --fiflT ■=- /<^WJ 1 They’ve invented a square )Wheel—it will revolutionize the merr Making it the merry-go -squa business? A lifetime of ^ You’re standing in childhood whirli- \ the way of progress, gigglin’ SpOiled.\p.T. Confess your The square wheel’s^ —- 1j - — * — no good— too We can put thatfsight! There’s nobodyJ Exactly! We knock wheel out cheaperh they can. succotash. This may be our big chance to become top dogs in the catfight - we’ll leave the country and sell this secret to a for- eign power. Ilf Yes, this idea of mine, the square wheel, may be our big chance to become top dogs in the catfight— we'll leave tne country and sell this secret to a foreign power. In the hallway with the chickens. This is it! Grab the plans— If you don’t well smuggle ourselves I into the garbage and be | shipped abroad! mind, sirs, where is your regular garbage? Oh, peachy. ! Keep your head down or he migh If you’re a suspect something— the rubbish is j chicken, where’s your comb? ' I dorCt lend it to strangers. shipped out of the country — were practically washed up on the 7 Weehawken shore now! JH Cluck >/Cy cluck / Oh, Mamie minded Mama \ \’Til one day in Singapore * l A sailor man from Turkestan Came knockin’ at the door. Yes — they’ve wrapped around the sandwiches. Here he comes hide! You got ) the plans? Howdodoo, sir, you look sad— \ / Good— climb aboard whilst you been down i n the dumps? Yes, \ I steers us to the barge. ' f ES V-i i — fiZJtiTL ) ( say to calling ‘ 'vMTnnvhnnol I \ this invention ne - ) V \ “ the Common* inspector. J V ? wheel? ////>/, The commonwheel Ylt’s got its charm.R.S.. ^(You hang j Yes— all for the commonweal", but it can’t send its song. J around this j garbage ain’t A great slogan'. [ It sparkles but itdotity\ stuff long L jus’ plaint enough and ) garbage— 1 it seems toy found a fine talk to f clarinetreed you. ^Jjn there once. r Somebody in) This whole conception will here got ) be a ninety- story goldmine Yes. an’ if you You spread mighty cold feet! floor— there's the fanfare l of trumpets in ***— ■ — - d every graceful i finger of its v corporeal jT cr ^7 being ! > really grow. y onto the barge you’ll find it w fairly / amusing V work.