Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 June 1939 — Page 28

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ry aivag) | SRE) TM F=Xle\ % J carts were INFESTED \{ PHIM, UNCLE AMOS Yesterday: Bart and Es finally quar- = > Ss % : p i | WITH HIGHWAYMEN WHO y Vw YOURS ANT rel about eating at home; Iris accuses = AE = Jf $ | KY WOULD NOT HESITATE TO | \ THAT BAD, IS Te

him of begrudzing these meals. So Bart | \ 1 a ; ER gives in and they decide to eat out for | . S 8 fe i) A : od PREY UPON A YOUNG Lao! the summer. * } / a CA HMMMEE |

CHAPTER EIGHT

| I% was not surprising to Bart to discover at the end of that first week of hot, sultry July dining out thet his budget had a crimp in it that made a sissy of the national debt. He bought more gas and oil for his 3-year-old coupe, and they cov- | << \¥ | ered miles along lake shores, into J : > AEA \ % oo ; 5 4 9 id . | ™ the country, just for the ride, and 3 ! \ : h ¥ : {! 4 2A 5 J X i E ; : ={ . & the heavenly respite from heat. TT. eS iy. >. : v rt's wal- | x aN i 74 A == : Q / hp AR ol - - 5 SN) ws a NC ! ; : : THE PICKER COPA. 1939 By NEA SERVICE, INC.

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alarming deficits at the end of each . week. - y shes _| “But the bank examiners don’t care about that, honey—they only | § . : wer Ba i a ae a | want to look at the books.” yf DIS As SALE BS EF or N a Fz 0-2-7350. . : | aula Bix ; Srbiln iE | | H : y MBE T17HON 7. AN’ 3 chine agency in Boston approached HOLD EVERYTHING By Clyde Lewis § OL Th COMBIN AY- SHUN SRT Wok TH | #2 NS Tye URE on bith to take on their ne Bait) me ——— EEE ’ N Th’ SAFE.~-TH PER-MISH-UN O’ 124 PUT TH SL HE TOLE ME - hadn’t the money. But day by day, | | NaS : 2 : ™ OWNER T'QPEN IT —4N’ AH Wr GRAB TH" -E the conviction was growing on him | : 3 s ALONE. 7” AN” = SCRAM - that the only solution open to him, | {© OPERATING to his problem, was to make more | ROOM 3 money. 5 He had to make more money, because he was spending more than he could afford, so he hadn’t enough | money to try to make more money that he must have because, and so| on. It was like that when the agent approached him. Bart thought of his three insur- | ance policies, all partly paid up. He| thought of what they meant to him Security for Iris, protection. A lifeline to leeward, in case of trouble or storm. Then he thought of the staggering total of deficits, he remembered | how Iris had picked up since they 3 began dining out again and going : ) AND TRESPASHIN ANT | [ I'VE COME 0 OPEN | AND WE'RE HERE TO PLuG On --- HELLO, on 7 : po 777 M158 Tess. RED RYDER P obvi a, ZA ALLOWED NEAR THID THAT DAM So MY [ BBE THATS GOT ANY LITTLE BE ANER ’ oS es AM WITH DER ’ ZRboER DAM? pp COWS CAN GET THIRETY IDEAS, RYDER / | Poss PLENTY TROUBLE IF YOUR

Obviously, he must make more >, ™M money. Obviously, he could not SER A" 4 0 ve? 18 ATER” — --- G0 WELL! do it on a cash basis. And oppor- aN : I: | Lys li Lk ou \ Si OIA A)

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door. : : 2 I: Ad 0 Afterward, Bart was to wonder 4 - i : J 3 UY Was / 37 hl ON

at the ease with which he borrowed $600 on each of his three insurance policies. “We'll send your shipment right up, Mr. Whittaker—you can safely advertise for Saturday's specials. Our trucks will be here early Friday morning, and were happy to | = have you in charge of our terri- se = = _ == tory.” | (LB3&_ Cle corn tose NEASERVICE. NCIS » Ww = | “Don’t worry now, dear—D’ll be right with you if anything happens.”

HUS was Bart introduced to FLAPPER FE ANNY By Sylvia |

the credit system. The merchandise, when it arrived, was even better than Bart | SR y *d, " Hoh : a Ng | Bs 2 ll HEY! -- YOU WELL --- 1 IT REALLY ¥ ed. It was easily worth 3 x 2 . i oe ps ad he . in the H ; J g : WHATCHA of52 OM, I TN PROMISED DAT WANT YOU TR AIN'T RIGHT Lira »d Clarion 1 | {| | bi THINKIN WAS JUST YOU'D ONLY TO STICK TO % ®, came in droves and hordes. ! 1 INH] | IN § - THINKIN’ THINK OF ME YER PROMISE They came, saw, and bought. And il { 1 3 } Fb 5 Ny 3 : ABOUT FROM NOW FROM NOW Bart's excitement rose to trembling | | § : MY Li'l ; . heights, as he sent in contract after { R : : : DOG! contract for approval at the home office. “If all my sales weren't on timepayment plan, I'd be so far ahead on this venture right now, I could take a month off and celebrate my good fortune,” Bart said. “Takes time to expand, Whitta- | ker; don’t let it get you down,”||g{ Ny ] | 2 said the Clarian advertising man- ||& X ? NM : ager. “Everybody buys on budget |[Fg® as g ; 4 > ; 'a d Tn ae, 10. Of Dias JUNE - 16-39 plan now. The cash customers [§ NC 5 s aren't buying any more. in \". A WASHINGTON TUBBS II hanging right onto their money “ = TT ay iy - 1 a oe . Yo CINCH : ERE'S NOT BONG TO BE ANY ) WELL TLL BE! | OH, I PLAYED A PART! IF (T WEREN i EA Jee. It’s up to the i w WORLD | OLD WARTTS BOAT, A TRIAL! TF YOU HADN'T LEFT IN FOR ME ALWAYS GETTING YOU “Bart” Iris said that night “if ¥ ARE YOU DON' | THE SPEED OF CURRENT, WENT SUCH AN ALL-FIRE 7 you'd |P x Ns Yu ‘Bart, that night, “if| THE RQER AND WAITED-THAT'S ALL WE'RE GONG | WAVE LEARNED THAT THE SPLEND(X _ 777i WHAT WOUD DO we're to have a vacation, or semi- | ! : MURDER HAS BEEN SOLVED! A E ws . ; FELLOW NAMED COKER DID 7

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honeymoon this year, it will have to! be this month before the dean gets back. After that, there’ll be no time off for any of us.” “I can’t leave right now, Iris; this new agency is Keeping us on the jump.” i “If you hired another man, wouldn't you make more sales?” | “We can’t afford any more ex- | “The boys really took me this time—I lost everything except my good pense on the labor budget, Iris. | luck marble.” We took on one mah, beginning %

NTR ar — | = this expansion, and it means less! THIS CURIOUS WORLD . By William Ferguson Ea

money for me.” | tin o% “You're funny, Bart. You're sellFRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS tric appliances like a bargain base-

ing washers and radios and elec-| A =a - POUND : LOBSTER. | i | — i 5 ps a, TY To as if you ll WAS CAUGHT AT : 2 a Hi = YA, JOE | HOWS BVERYMHING |] Yep HME ACCEPTED | WHEN HE AND OE reading straight for the poor-| ll ATLANTIC HIGHLA gz _~ B( Up AT MOONSOCKET 3 DIO You - ALL | BANG GET UP MERE, LET T CERTAINLY house, IN 1897 NOS ; | WRITE HIM THAT LETTAK LIKE AW Thy AND END Me / as TH DION'T. THINK “If it was cash business, honey, i ASKED You © © | a Ra : we'd be riding the crest of the Ss er Bly RID wave. It's all credit. So much § : pa ; Re

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down, so much a week.” “If they pay every week, and ; others keep buying, I don’t sce why oN ERLE as / | you aren’t all right, Bart,” Iris said. XS DNC A ; SONGS 2 th “Look, honey, business is com- ; Ny - @ ) plicated finance. The down pav- : ment on a radio or washer, doesn’t cover the amount I had to borrow at the bank to stock the merchan-| dise, if you divide the entire sum | by the items I hold.

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eal 3 LL right, then. No vacation. | i \ BOOTS AND HER SU And no honeymoon. It's a

funny kind of marriage, Bart. You ™ | : A \ REMEMBER , MV SNR ARE TF j } i MR AN Re. UJ ON SR 50 \ ~ WN O

left all the romance on the doorstep, ’ ELA NE ONE . YOU outside, the day you married me.” | : I EL. - CNS RE Iris, honey. don’t you under-| a il W} Ld = stand? This is our chance, this means we'll get somewhere. I can't! drop everything now, and go galli- | vanting off on some nonsense.” | “If you consider our honeymoon | nonsense, Bart Whittaker!" | They left on a three weeks deferred honeymoon the following Sunday morning. They left at 9 o'clock and the bride wore a corsage of sweetpeas Pitney Ris smart new sharkskin | suit, and her open mesh gloves were | | An en) sheer enough to show the winking, | et Ce ay derisive sparkle of the diamond on | ye SMALLEST A = her left hand. The diamond Bart WHICH HAS RI Ow .- | iid going. pay $5 a week on, be-| \_" ss : ginning September 1. 7 | 8 Dt rue, largest, diameter about $6,000 miles; Mercury, | 0 THIS BOG 18 TOO THICK © AND | CAN'T SEE YOU AT ALL, ie Vos Comtiniusit smallest, diameter about 3000 miles. Saturn fs the only planet known | [ = | J ORME TO DISCERN YOUR Jil. BY oars Sout he OmaASLL

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