The Socialist and labor star. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1911-1915, 1913-08-01
EVENING REVERlES.
Or why Don't They Perfume The
Garbage When The Sun
Shines Hot?"

magazine cut the ropes and started
out alone to turn the search light on
the big national problems, and begun
to publish things no other magazine
dared publish, ! came to the conclu'
sion that l5c now and then invested
in this witty, plucky magazine would
bring profitable returns, in the way Of
knowledge acquired.
Well, | had just purchased the July
number and seated myself before an
open window, perched my feet as
high as could without attracting too
much attention, and had Waded in with
| Charles Edward Russell, Oh the new
Rail Road Revolution" when sud
denly and abruptly my neighbors be-
came disturbed for block, or several
blocks around.
Quite a few of them rushed into the
houses, and some closed the doors al
ter them. Some held their noses, 9th
ers swore. Well, the air was filled
with q sour, sickening smell that was
just about the fouleSt had ever
been compelled to take into my lungs
sitting right in the center Of big,
supposedly modern. Incorporated city!
What Is it," naturally quiz2ed.
One neighbor remarked that being
-. M I,th N llt -
WAS stirring time.
After the first rush for shelter had
subsidized somewhat | found that the
connection was caused by the fog
rising from heated garbage that was
being dumped few squares away.
In a little scouting trip that then
began | found that within the imme-
date vicinity there were several large
and attractive ponds. The weather be-
ing unreasonably hot the decayed
Vegetation had begun to disintregate,
and a beautiful coating Of sickening
green scum floated upon the surface of
the miniature lakes. The fog from the
garbage, sweeping over these ponds
mixed the different smells into one
perfect whole, and the result was all
ozone that would bring health and life
to the merest shadow OF a fever germ.
This particular city that have IN
mind has a peculiar garbage system,
viz: In the future waste from the
kitchen IS not 10 be burned, but stor-
ed In a box or barrel and hauled away
at the expense Of the city-eyery two
or three weeks. The period between
haulings varying according to the
spirit Of prosperity of the different
sections of the city.
For instance, those sections in
or professional classes live is visited
daily by the garbage wagon; those
| sections which house the fairly we'll
TODD mechanic are visited every week
or so, and the slums where dwell the
really poor-Qre never reached.
Who devised this system Of gather
ing garbage. anyway? You working
men must have had something to do
with it. Aren't you consulted on al
most all important subjects? Then
why do you neglect your own section
Of the city in this manner. Now pEe
been reliably informed that in the be,
ter residential sections where the coed
people llye-the prosperous folks. ii
you please-those who float Il pros
perity flag on prosperity day, drove a
prosperity automobile in the prospect
| ~ parade, and ate a prosperity dinner
on prosperity day-the garbage is
hauled away daily. Evidently they
take more pride in their home sur
roundlngs than do YOU wOrkingmnm.
and are more careful Of the health Of
their families.
| Now, Mr.. Working man, stick q pin
| hereafter all you are to blame for
! any discrimination which is pfariced
by the governing powers on you. Ion
fellows could have anything that you
desire in this life ii You would only
pull together. But you just won't DO
It. And the autocracy knows it. The
capitalist uses his brains and your
muscle to further his interests; you
neglect to cultivate and train your
brain, In fact you permit the other fel
! low 10 do all the thinking, and depend
upon his newspapers for what little
| knowledge or training you acquire
along political lines. And what's the
| result?
On election day YOU go out and
vote for BArains and his interetss-
| leaving your interests and the interest
of your family OF be looked after b.
! those who care about as much about
you as they do about the savages in
| darkest Africa.
Organized labor is a step In I'll"
F9ShI direction. bul IL ID Only H'tP.
| Stop and think, and for the sake OF
the progeny YOU are bringing into the
world quit voting to tear down Your
own organizatin.
When yu throw away your opportu-
nifty on election day to better your
condition by electing men who repre-
sent YOUR instead Of the Bosses in
terests-don't kick about q littIe.
dirty ctinkiup Gcur thing liIya = 1i,,l,