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VfJ v« :n~; a;llKa- ^fSaRamK . -• *,*.• .: McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK^ S^ C^^XaURSDAY, JANU ARY A 1941 .. r -'‘"fSL&i .. : — • ^,, */- >? .< y .* *.£'4* M • =♦. -ii - BIG TOP By ED WHEELAN Having cwascd*^^anp’^miskcrs " our dp *TWE*feNT.'«lLK*-NC7WTDW«DW6 ATTtfjHoWTb ALTA - 1 V/ONDER Ni/HV TWAT GUV n \<o ALWAYS CHASIN' US. OUT Of 1 THE: MENAGERIE IenT ? by gosh,m gonna SEE WHAT HE'S DOIN' IN QUIET, BOY-l|i2p WELL, MAYBE THIS WILL WAKE YOU UR SWEETHEART !! \ LALA PALOOZA Mr. Boggle Is Taken to the Cleaner’s By RUBE GOLDBERG YOU CAN'T KEEP ME OUTA HERE WITH YOUR FUNNY CONTRAPTIONS-* I’M FELIX K. BOGGLE, THE DOUGHNUT KING. AND I WANT MY Nil S’MATTER POP—Soldiers Have to Think Quick KokKkSTHAl THAPURTY By C. M. PAYNE MESCAL IKE Bjr &L. huntley So Far Pa’s a Hundred Per Cent POP—That’s Telling Him WERE, . OOVEKIOR ! /€rg 'V;" By J. MILLAR WATT r >r T%» B»n trnOfU.. lor.) I WANT TO LOOK AS, WELL AS YOU! SXyX SPORTING THING mi '0 m P m mp p .vXv> m >X*S ms V- • >9 V’.*.? : : Si: p v:$S By LANG ARMSTRONG 1* -- W*CE CREAM ^ MCONES M ii M i m r. • • GLUYflS WILLIAMS ♦ ‘Whose serve?’ 60ES INTO STORE TO BUY ICE CREAM CONES FOR FAMILY WAITING IN THE CAR HAS TO SHIFT CONES TO ONE HAND IN ORDER TO GET AT MONEY TO PAY FOR THEM ftlOYM toiuwns HAS TO SHIFT CONES A- <sA»N IN ORDER TO UN LATCH DOOR.GETS THROUGH, AND RE-SHIFTS CONES, CLERK CALLING HE’S FORGOTTEN HIS CHANGE SHIFTS THEM BACK TO BOTH HANDS, DRIBBLING A LITTLE ICE CREAM DOWN HIS WRISTS, AND TRIES TO OPEN SCREEN DOOR WITH HIS FOOT GOES THROUGH WHOLE PRO CEEDING AGAIN IN RE VERSE. AND IS FORCED TO NOP HIMSELF UP WITH HANDKERCHIEF, ICE CREAM HAVING STARTED TO MELT —d bj B»H >rn<lcATO, lag.) GETS OUT TO CAR AND FINDS FAMILY ARE OFF SOMEWHERE BUY ING PICTURE POST CARDS Uncle J^hil Sc Safe to Eulogize ! .How valuable.a man’s services have been is told without reserve in bis Obituary. He will not then think he ou^ht to be better re warded for them. “Joy cometh in the morning/* But not if you've been out joyrid ing the night before. We don’t.put off so much, “till tomorrow.” We put it off forever. =5SS=« His Nature la Prodigal When the .prodigal comes back, be glad to see him. But don’t ex pect too much from him. One secret of success is always to find the grin in grind. It’s better to give than to re ceive—and easier to remember. Unwanted Meddling Advice is advice when it is asked for. When unasked for, it is gen erally meddling. Sin may be ugly, but it under stands the art of beauty culture. A man’s “reasons” frequently sound like excuses. When Leonardo da Vinci, stand ing at the edge of the precipice on Mount Albano, saw the flying ma chine of his designing cragh in the valley below, he cried to the winds, so one of his biographers states: “There shall be wings. ’ If the accomplishment be not for me, ’tis for some other. It shall be done. The spirit cannot lie; and man, who shall know all and who shall have wings, shall indeed be as a god.” Three years before Columbus* discovery of America, da Vinci wrote in his notebook: “If the eagle can sustain himself in the rarest atmosphere, if great ships can float across the waves, why cannot likewise man, by means of powerful wings, make himself lord of the winds and rise con queror of si>ace?” The question was answered, the prophecy was fulfilled in the New World to which the ships of Tos- canelli’s other pupil led the way. America may proudly cherish the little shop of the Wright brothers, which Henry Ford has made a part of his collection of significant American landmarks and which has taken on a world distinction from the “deeds of the doers” who worked there.—New York Times. Gems of Thought A MULE’S eyes are set well back, that he may see be hind him; a man’s are set to ward the top of his head, that he may look' above him.— Phelps. There's only one kind of poverty, and that's to have no love in the heart.—Alexander Irvine. There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.—Plau tus. Of all those arts in which the wise excel nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.—Duke of Buckingham. The miser is as much in want of what he has, as what, he has not.—Publilius Syrus. lentous Restless I” ■ m|A f Cranky? Restless? fill |\ I Can’t sleep? Tire MM 11 Iw ■ easily? Because of distress of monthly functional disturbances? Then try Lydia. E. Pink ham's Vegetable Com pound. Plnkham’s Compound Is famous for relieving pain of Irregular periods and nervous, cranky spells due to such disturbances. One of the most effective medicines you can buy to- 1 day for this purpose — made espe cially for women. WORTH TRYING I MERCHANTS •Your Advertising Dollar buys something more than space and circulation in the columns of this news- \ paper. It buys space and circulation plus the favor able consideration of our readers for this newspaper and its advertising patrons. LET VS TELL YOU MORE ABOUT IT