women marched on the down
town grocery stores and de
manded food supplies for un
employed at the city hall. Sev
eral stores sent quantities oL
food.
Supper in a Miner’s Home
“Mcmmie, Ive got supper.” \
nine-year old boy, closely fol
lowed by three children under r,
came into the kitchen of one of
the shacks of the Buffalo mine,
in the Washington County, Pa ,
district.
There was a wisp of a smile on
his white, drawn face, some
thing approaching triumph in
his dull eyes.
In a tin pail, he had plantain
leaves, dandelions, wild mus
tard sprigs. It was to be his
supper, and that of the rest of
the family. He had culled them
from a particularly luxuriant
spot of ground near a dump
where refuse was constantly be
ing dumped and incinerated.
“Thanks, Henry,” said the wo
man of 30 who looked fifty. “I’m
afraid that it’s all we have, be
cause I couldn’t get any bread
from Aunt Maggie. But she said
she might get some tomorrow.”
That was the supper of a war
veteran, the second meal of the
day. They could get no bread,
and probably few of them re
membered when they last ate
meat. They lived in a two-room
shack, and expected to be evict -
ed at any moment.
An appeal made to the Rea
Cross for these miners has elie
ited regret from the head of the
organization who declares that
there is no emergency in the
coni fields, nor is it an act of
Gcd. It is presumed that wars
are acts of Gcd. The Red Cross
has never failed nor hesitated o
feed children of other nations
—why then should it refuse t)
feed the starving children of
American miners?
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Man is 'no greater than the
thoughts that occupy bis mind.
OXTAIL SOUP WITHOUT THE
OXTAIL
The Government has barrei
l'rom interstate commerce cer
tain imported brands of “oxtail
soup” which contain no oxtails.
Jl argues, and correctly so, that
when the public buys oxta.l
soup, it wants a little something
besides tomatoes.
Now “Frankfurter sausages”
that never saw Frankfurt, Ger
many is banned. If they must
give it a name, they may call ir
“of the Frankfurter type.”
“Smithfield hams” that have
never seen Smith'field, Va., may
not trade on the Smithfield
name.
Honest nomenclature goes far
toward a satisfactory and com
fortable living It would be a
mighty good thing if the De
partment of Agriculture could
extend its authority into other
fields of misbranding. For in
stance, there are certain mis
called “Republicans” who are no
more Republicans than Soviet,
‘they are oxtail soup without ox
tails.
A conference of Republicans,
such as is planned by Juneau
leaders, will help put Republic
anism into “Republicans.”
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The way to fight Communism is
to make the world more pros
perous.—Sir George Paish.
The Frog that Kicked
From The Alaskan
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The story is told that tv/o
frogs once fell into a bucket of
milk. After floundering around
for awhile, trying to get out, one
of the frogs gave up and was
soon drowned. The ether frog
just kicked and kicked and kick
ed and low he churned up a big
li mp of butter. Climbing on
the butter he was able to get a
solid footing and jump out of
the pail and save himself.
“Hill Billy,” in the Seattle Star
says:
“A fellow can set quite a bit
of biologic information merely
by observing a barrelful of wri
glers fighting an oil scum; 9'Jfi
in 1000 will come up for an:
stick their noses into the deadly
fdm; give a kick and die; but
the hundredth wriggler will dart
into the barrage; dart away,
cha^e around just under the sur
face, discover the only spot
where the turp has not spread,
and retire to the depths of tire
barrel.
“I do not know what gives the
hundredth wriggler his unique
intelligence; I do not know how
or why a small, skinny, ascetic
can defy all the might and ma
jesty of the British Empire; I
do not sabe the wherefore of an
Omar, the whencencss of a Pla
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