The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1911-11-26

HAS DONE SOME SELLING.
And the Commissioner himself halfway
favOrs it. Having done a quantity of
plain and fancy selling before he started
cOmmishing, Hon. Rudolph has a clear
idea of how to attract the crowd. what
to say to the crowd, and how to slip over
a quick sale before the victim more than
half realizes what has happened. Judge
Pugh favOrs It. And the judge is well
equipped-but that is another story to
come later.
In his campaign against middlemen the
courageous mayor OF Indianapolis first
hired a wagon, then ordered potatoes, and
lastly started forth from the ETY. hall
one afternoon selling the potatoes to who
ever cared to buy. They were nice pota-
toes, according to all description, and
they went like hot cakes-or, better yet,
like potatoes should sell.
This, while accomplishing much in the
reduction Of the cost of potatoes, Is not
ambitious enough for the Washington ad-
vocates of municipal truck gardeners. 1t
the Band of Consumers can persuade all
of its intended statesmen to do a little
hard work. the great and heartless cor
porations and the terrific and dangerous
aggregations of wealth Csee United States
Supreme Court decision on Standard Old
will assume the appearaCe and quality of
one of those 10-cent oyster stews you buy
this time of the year.
Buy Them as Christmas Presents.
Tobacco? Be simply nowhere. Milk?
Six cents a quart. Potatoes? Buy 'em
by the barrel and give EN- to friends for
Christmas presents. AS for the beef
trust, it will be selling beefsteaks on a
green-trading-stam plan, and will be glad
10 get the stamps for the steak. That's
Nn-k,n ,IC e afg oft
put the corporations if they go through
with their proposed plan.
little light conversation from Com
missioner Rudolph. which came to me
yesterday, showed conclusively how strong
he is for the new idea"
1T might do he said thoughtfully, eff
there would be some special badge or uni
form connected with it. A Commission
er, Of course, could not stop suddenly in
the middle of District estimates or few
erish session of the board and sell guam
titles of corn. He would have to be con-
siderative. Let him make out a schedule
like this:
800 a. m.-Rise.
$50 a. m.-Eat.
'S:25 a. NAT Office.
1926 a. m.-Letters.
$50 a. m.-Selling morning potatoes
''10:3O a. m.-Receive callers.
''11:00 a. m.-Selling peas and corn.
Noon-Hurry to White House.
''12:45 p m.-Lunch.
''12:46 p. m.-Go to Capitol.
$50 D. m.-Sell lettuce.
$50 p. m.-Sell leftover morning pota-
toes at bargain rates.
Plan Easy to Follow.
IF this idea was followed out, it might
make the whole plan feasible It would
not take up too much Of the Commission
er's time. It would merely occupy the
various hours of ease wherein he now
doth try to please with appraised hands
and Blended knees a widely dispersed and
varying constituency"
When the president OF the Band of Con-
sumers heard Of this he bounded about
like q butterfly in the sheer abandon of
helpless joy.
THAT is the start" he cried. AFTER
this, the deluge.'
And from present indications it looks
that way.
There is a wealth of material from
which the Commissioners and govern
ment officials may draw, when they be-
gin their personal campaign against
merciless middlemen and monopolles.
Chief among these is the COW that once
belonged to Judge Pugh, of which men,
ton was made few moments ago.
Time was. and not so long ago, that
Judge Ivory G. Kimball graced the
bench now occupied by Judge Pugh and
the latter delivered long and brilliant
appeals In front of it. Thaa was when
Judge Pugh was assistant corporation
counsel. In those dear dead days Cor.
porauon Counsel Pugh lived out some
where in the country, and among his
other unalienable possessions were two
chickens, a horse-and a COW.
How He Named the Cow.
he named the COW Marie Antoinette,
because, as he explained it, she didn't |
have much head. Marie was a quiet,
comfortable, matronly sort of q COW,