Omaha daily bee., 1917-06-30
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Omaha, June 29.-To the Editor of
The Bee: A man where l work was
telling me about a piece In Golfers
Weekly this week criticizing the last
letter that l wrote to The Bee. So
went up to the public librabry and
read 1t.
don't know what the editor means
by saying Mrs. Mickle's hands are
still unreddened with my blood. Mrs.
Mickle would not commit murder
even II she does act up sometimes.
soon show who's boss In my house.
I can tell that Golfers editor some
other ways to cut down the cost of liv-
ing. l got a large piece of ground
next to my house this spring and now
it is all in garden truck. My four
children do the work instead of loaf
ing around and getting into mischief
Each one has a certain amount to
take care of and they are working
there from morning to night. Even
the youngest, 10 years old, does his
bit. My wife and two oldest chill
dren spaded 1t up. l laid it out and
showed them how to do it. My oldest
daughter has left home and works
in a factory and, in spite of all could
do. she boards at boarding house
when she ought to be boarding at
home and paying her board money
here.
Every evening l look over the gar
den and point out where it can be
improved. Though / am tired after
my days work, consider 1t my duty
to do this. ! sit and smoke where I
can watch them at work and offer
suggestions.
1 have already sold s1S.45 worth of
truck. My children sell 1t from door
to door within six blocks Of home. The
nearby neighbors won't buy from us
because they are too mean and are al
ways talking about the way we live.
They are busybodies who don't even
own their own homes and could buy
and sell any of them.
Our own table is bountifully sup
piled with the vegetables that aren't
good enough to sell.
keep the children interested by Of
fering prize. I am going to take ths
one who sells the most garden truck
in the month of June to a moving
picture show. Also the same prize
will be offered In July and August.
This gives them real interest in the
work.
If some of these other people that i
are always grumbling about the high
cost of living would use a little COM
mon sense and get to work they
would own their homes and have
money in the bank like l have. The
only trouble is they haven't got
enough sense to do it. I know be-
cause I've got a lot of these ola
croakers living right around me. AL
ways sticking their noses into my
business and telling how I ought to
run my family. A. B. M1CKLE.
A Reioinder.
Omaha, June 29.-To the Editor of
The Bee: Permit me to come back"
in the same fraternal spirit at Brother |
Haynes. am glad he knew of whom |
Twas speaking in referring to pub
licity expert" I have not the slight
est fear of anything which Brother
Haynes may introduce respecting the |
principles Of single tax, nor of the |
presumed attacks upon its operation |
in western Canada. Though every |
body knows, who knows anything |
about 1t, that the application Of single |
tax in western Canada is but partial |
makeshift for 1t, still I am willing to
meet every truthful statement that |
may be made against its limited appli- |
cation there. | am devoted to no er-
ror. l am willing to discard single
tax or any other principle l hold.
the moment conclusive proof is fur
nished that 1t is erroneous. No man
can afford to be wrong.
AS to any reference to western Can
ada. however, 1t must be remembered
that in those cities and provinces
4 II ey baya ahsolute hon1a rule In tar
matters. If the people there really
believed what these foes Of equitable
attempt to show they would
overthrow the system at once. That
they do not overthrow 1t is sufficient
made by Brother Haynes and the in
terests he serves.
There is another element that
must be considered by any one wish
ng to be. fair In making compari-
sons OF figures between Canadian
provinces and American, let us re-
that Canada. as part of the
British empire. has been at war for
three years while the United States
has not.
The average person may not stop
to think that there is relation be-
tween taxation and tuberculosis. Let
me show It, Haskin's letter in The
Bee of this issue shows the deplor-
able state that France is in with re-
,pect to this disease. He shows that
even before the war, France suffered
20 an unusual degree from the plague.
He shows that the Americans over
here undertook to show that fresh !!