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THE VANCOUVER DAILY PROVINCE, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1942 The Daily Province Tillicum Club ORPHAN ANNIE 'By Harold Gray 7 BUT. ANNE IK? SWS! BUT iauore -rvae ohIoh! whats A THAT? STEPS IN ISNT IT WRONG N0TBP6AWC GERMAN "WISH "WE'RE ALL FRIENDS TOGETHER" TO BREAK INTO ilMME COULD READ IT- A PLACE AT A BOOST-PM HAMDBl LUS--HUNDREQ? OF 'EM BUND-I KNOW THAT WORD- RATTUN'-OH, BOY! THIS COULD BE CHILDREN'S VICTORY ARMY NIGHT? VDU COULD GET INTO TROUBLE- COIN THROUGH THAT TRANSOM DOG-GONED OH. WELLTHIS EMBARRASStK COMMANDOS ARE NATION-WIDE CAN WAIT" Page Twenty-two IF YOU DOKT I SLEEPtW IN HERE" VI HEAR FROM ME if ER--SO 1 THfiTlS LUCKY NOW IN TWENTYFOUR If LONG, COLONEL I FOR A LOOK AROUND II HOURS, CALL ANNIE--BUT I PRINTIN SHOR 71 TH COPS VI DO BE I ALL RIGHT GEE! I SO LONG- XTM CAREFUL- I LOOK AT ALL TH" I I II I Coast To Coast Organization To Salvage Metal And Rubber mists Sff Print RU tMTIN "1 I In. -1 raVTl v-" I JL GASOLINE ALLEY By King "This Is our war, too, and we want to gtv? all we can to help the soldiers who are giving all they have." That's what one Junior Commando group wrote rom Erie, Pennsylvania, recently, and that's what all the Vancouver Junior Commandos are saying, too. It Just goes to show you that once children even if they aren't lucky enough to be Tillicums get hold of an idea, they really carry It through! From all corners of America comes news of the way that "Junior Commando" activities have really caught on like wildfire.

Little Orphan Annie comic strips appear In 225 newspapers irom coast to coast, and in every centre has sprung up a new company of Junior Commandos. What was started as simply a new series In the comic strips by Harold Gray, the author of It all, has really mushroomed Into a great force for victory. Help the boys in service. The wonderful feature of the Junior Commando groups Is that they were all started lay you children yourselves. No one organized you formally, but you just went out and "did your bit" in the best way you saw fit! f'iy? 11' W.

wtmek reee ism Yew on, db'S mm VV I wrw tovam TT 7f ST A I SOy FRIEND. ClVff KHEW.WHAT If ABOUT ME, HAS HE. A A iWUT-MC AND HE'S I VOtTfZE AHO I SAV ll HIM MY IOVE AND AFFECTION MS THIS AHO fM A TOPIC WCONSEflUWIW. JEALOUS! AM I 1 1 ABSOUMVl I JERRY AND THE PIRATE 9-10 K9 FT NOT A "Vpo M3U NOT 1 f-6ETTINO U- AftAYSE 6WEt TALK fSTTi i --v ttv WASTE OF TIME OUR FUTURE PtANS I I'A 6ETT1N0 BXACTLY 4 TO ME A6AIN ANO'N qu iT. I TOB0THEK WITM THE6SBoy AAIGHT ISNTA COULD 6ET A S-ST THIS PALE YANKEE? )6EKVE 1)6 NOW TMAT THE; RED-MEAD LEAD ON THE JAP JS 1 we FEEX HEEW I TALKED WITH' IN TUB AIR KAID WARNINO i CV In all the groups, members are pledged to collect every bit of rubber, metal, and other scrap material available for the Red Cross.

Any money they make on the side goes either to buy War Savings stamps, or for the Junior Red Cross. In Rochester, New York, the commandos are awarded stripes for promotion by merit alone that is, they have to really produce the scrap before they win their stripes. It is the same way with Save meUI to build tanks. all the Vancouver groups. Mavis Bickley's Commando group, for example, has for Insignia, narrow white armbands, which they make themselves, out of old pieces of material around their homes.

On these are embroidered stripes with red embroidery thread, and a large J. also In red embroidery. The whole effect is really quite Inspiring. In some of the centres, like Cleveland, Ohio, local civic organisations like the Lions Club are sponsoring the movement. Little Orphan Annie herself started "junior Commandolng" a short two months ago, and she had hardly made her first collection before youngsters in every corner of the United States and Canada, had started their own groups.

Tillicums In Vancouver can be very proud that they are right in among those first organized. They need guns, too! Harold Gray, himself, creator of Little Orphan Annie, is quite overwhelmed by it all. An interesting feature of the strip is that August 5 marked the eighteenth anniversary of her debut When Gray graduated from Purdue University in 1917 he began his career as a cub reporter on the Chicago Tribune at $15 a week. Today his Income runs into six figures, and the syndicate handling "Little Orphan Annie" says It is their best money-maker, too. Gray served in the First Great War returned to the Tribune SMITTY BtiBemdt after the armistice, and became an assistant to the late Sidney Smith, creator of 'The Gumps.

Annie made her debut In the New York Dally News in 1924, and she's been there ever since. She's really making herself heard now, too! DIANA GRAY. Scrap metal makes bonds. Junior Commandos I US VouslE At UTTLS Ml FORGcTT7g ALL Wlt'llHl -1j" MOOSE Art Exhibition For Red Gross Shift Letters Pronunciation Plays Tricks Words sometimes play tricks on people, especially on children. SUPERMAN Every child finds It natural to ay "a napple" Instead of "an -rBy Siegel and.

Sinister MM CLABK AND LOIS ARE ABOUT W-VvHEN YOU THE DAY IDS DiATER-THE PLANE SOARS WE HELD WITH THAT. apple," "a norange" for "an orange" and "a negg" of "an TOLD THE TAXI YOU STOP THE PLANS TO DEBftJZT FOB THE SLOW POKEASUI ALOFT INTO THE DARKENING DUSK, LAS LONG AS DRIVER. IT WAS COMPLAINING, UNAWARE OF THE FATEFUL. EVENTS CLARK KENT,) YOU'D SET GOING! IVE JUST MADE A aJATTCO -lC- al AlL VAII egg." One mother tells of ber boy WE COULD, along, rrs HAVE: STHAT LIE IN WAIT I ith! WITH LAST-MINUTE ARRANOEMEtTS MISS LANE. PREFERRED LIFE: AND DEATH,) BE DECLARED A WONDEK THE REGIONAL HEADQUARTERS OF A MINUTE I MADE SUPERMAN YOU WEREN'T S.A NATIONAL CIVILIAN DEFENSE FOR YOU TO GO UP FOOLING! ANYONE HOLIDAY MORE AND YOU'D IT AT ALL.

-I uaiA r-ti-SaS. I ll i IN AN OBSERVATION PLAN 5 DURING r-1 HAVE BEEN TONIGHTS TWENTY MINUTE THIS IS TAKING TOO LATE. Pv TRIAL BLACKOUT. YOU'RE TO YOU I HIS LIFE IN HIS HANDS 1 WRITE YOUR, T-TT-rrfC HfcAliu VIMPRESSIONS Tf uaTp) I JcomonO III tM, mcCIw. mwmi irc POWWOW FOR RED CROSS Rosie Stager and Mary Billy are two of the Indian school children at St.

Mary's School at Mission. They danced at the Indian concert put on for the Junior Red Cross lately by the Indians of the Pemberton Reserve, Creekside, B.C. The concert, which netted $75, proves that all over the country members of the Junior Red Cross are doing their best to help their King and country. THE GUMPS By Gus Edson BIM MAY NOT BE AM ADONIS, HE SAYS HE HAS OUT TMfc WORTH Op A MING IS NEVER DETERMINED lllllllj PERMISSION FOR YOU BIM'S HAVlKka A HU6E I'M JUST CYlNGt ToJ Iff BIM CLAIMS GOODNESS v-vrt NURSERY APOED TO SEE THE LITTLE I THE BABY'S (fl OH. WELL-THE HIS HOME -HE HAD FELLOW -WONDER Hill THE IMAGE I I CHILD'S SO YOUNG -III TO HAVE A BUILDING WHOM HE LOOKS OF HIM- 1 1 HE MIGHT ZJI I MC To SEE THE HARV BY ITS OUTWARD APPEAR having said that for breakfast he liked three things beginning with the letter Puzzled, she asked what they were.

1 "A napple, a norange and a negg" was the reply. This tendency to shift letters from the end of one word to the front of another causes children to think, sometimes, that "napple" Is the name of the fruit DICTIONARIES MISTAKEN. Sometimes the rule works backwards and plays tricks on the dictionary makers as well as on children. Once In a while we find a word which originally caried the as its first letter but, which has lost the letter through careless use. Take the word "adder," for example.

In speaking of "a nadder" people said it in a way that made it sound like "an adder," and in the course of time the was completely taken from the noun and hitched to the article. "An apron" was once known as "a napron." The word came Into the English language from the French word "napperon." 'Umpire" was originally spelled "nom-per" In the old French language. The word, by the way.was formed from the Latin phrase "non par," which meant "not equal" or "odd," and was the name given the "nomper" or "umpire" because he is "the odd man" or the one who settles disputed questions. The bore was boasting of his family's patriotism. "I'm lolnlnir the R.A.F.

next Aklf Aim Bl IDTUCBWVC Birthday Greetings How can we make some more money for the Junior Red Cf oss? I can almost hear dome of you at your Junior Commando meetings, when you're not collecting salvage metals and rubber. For you, here's one solution. An old gentlemau came in the other day, with an idea for any Tillicums that cared to use it His name is Mr. P. C.

Fuller, and he lives 1687 West Georgia. For years now, he has been keeping pictures of Interest from the London Times and other papers, and now he has then mounted on colored cardboard. The pictures are very interesting, and besides tracing the course of the war, show many beautiful scenes and famous homes. THE TILLICUMS, OF COURSE. Now, he has, decided that they might as well be of some use to someone, and who should be better than the Tillicums, he 6ald to himself.

He suggested that a group sponsor an exhibition of the Illustrations, and thus make some money for the Junior Red Cross. I Immediately thought of the Junior Commandos, organized all over the city, and who are doing so much for the war effort They are always right on their toes looking for new ideas for making money, and here's one all prepared! Some of the illustrations are colored, and some of them are just prints, but all of them are carefully mounted on cardboard, and are suitable for hanging on a wall at a display. ART GALLERY. Perhaps one of you has a playroom you could turn Into an art gallery for a day. The extra special feature of this display is that it would attract your parents, and other grown ups, too.

And you know that they are always have a little more to give the Red Cross, than any of your own pals alone would be able to donate. If any of you are interested in pursuing this kind offer of Mr. Fuller's, you can contact him directly, or come In, and see the small collection he left here with me at Tillicum headquarters as a sample. It sounds like a grand method for making money, and you can be sure that we'll advertise It in the Tillicum page, when you decide to put It on. September 10.

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