Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1947-08-08
Washington
LaborReport

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It's not her fault. She HAS to
do it for her gunner, Marse
Bertie Mccormick, the big
brain of the Chicago Tribune.
She does what her well-fed
overseer, Harold Gray, who
draws her without pupils in her
eyes Gould this be sabotage?),
makes her do.
Annie's new crusade for more
child labor is pretty sinister. 1t
isn't the first cause she's
plugged and the record will
show that what Annie says to-
day the Congress and State
Legislatures may enact into
law a few years from now, may
be sooner.
Annie is Marse Bertie's Mata
Hari. With her curly golden
hair Con Sundays) and her blank
eyes of sheer mindlessness, she
has charmed her way into news
papers and millions of homes
from coast to coast where Marse
Bertie wouldn't be allowed in to
clean the drains. And wherever
she goes, she carries the latest
mental bacteria developed in
Marse Bertie's laboratories.
The fact that Ami is no
screaming her little lungs OF
for MORE child labor opportun-
tiles for KIDS so they can grow
up without becoming DELIN-
QUENTS means that the Re-
publican Party platform for
1948 will have to be watched to
see whether Marse BERTHE has
had endorsement of laws against
child labor taken out and a
smooth endorsement of MORE
character-building WORK op-
portunities for YOUTH (kids)
put in its place.
TREND
Thinking it over, Annie may
be out in front of trend. Only
a few weeks ago your CORES
pondent reported Marvin K.
Hart's testimony to Congress
that what most children need
is not education so much as a
job. Nearly two years ago,
General Motors President
Charles E. Wilson proposed a
48-hour work week to get out
postwar production at world
competitive costs.
Said Annie - Every child
should be taught that useful
work is worship and that intel
ligent labor is the highest form
of prayer"
(This makes nasty little athe-
lists of the we'll fed, nicely
tanned little boys and girls at
Palm Beach, Newport and Bar
Harbor who grow up to be six
foot pillars of proper churches.)
The first three panels show
Annie in a fight with a low
character named julius, a boy
whose job has been taken over
by Annie. Annie has the first
the last:
TOUGH ANNIE
"But you QUIT, julius! Uncle
Til had to have help at the
store 5000, I'm HELP
ING him :"
"Ya-a-ah" says julius, shak-
ing his fist under Annie's snub
nose. "Yuh took my job! Yuh
dirty little '"!!"
The next picture shows Annie
,opping julius on the nose while
Uncle Til, standing in the back
ioor of the store, says ANNIE!
Oh Hmm What a
AS Annie kayoes julius with
IN overland right cross, she says,
There! And don't you ever call
We bad names again"
Julius flees up a dark alley
it's night-with Annie
'elling after him, You're a gold.
,ricker loops, sorry GovenorD
nd SOS your old man! Now, 60
N home, yer mothers calm
'uh!"
Next picture is inside the store
Annie behind the counter, wait
1g on an overstuffed lady:
"Oh, good m rning, Mrs,
'ringe, (you know Lunatic,)
,oaf o bread one Corn Flakes
E. Half a dozen oranges Yes,
lam ="
"Hm.m-m >" says Mrs.
'ringe. Aren't you a little
Dung to be clerking in a store,
~ child2"
YING
oh, says Annie, lying a little
I'm not WORKING here, Mrs.
ringe =, I'm only helping out
'ncle Til--Mr, Tiddley, that is
. :" Gould that name be sabo-
lge against Marse BERTHE by
verseer Gray?)
"Our Circle is taking up the
.udy of the problems of chill.
ren TODAY says Mrs. Fringe.
AT this point, the plot jumps
yer some discussion of delin-
uency TO Annie's answer:
Delinquency? Shucks! know
lenty about that one, Mrs.
ringe!" (Why, Annie,) "Tm a
Idl Kids are the same TODAY
J they always were, l betcha -.
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