The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-02
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS

calf
 Let's consider a calf 1 Not the rounded prominence of the hinder part of the human leg below the knee.
 This is not encouraging rubber-necking but to try and put stop to the slaugh- ter of calves
 The thing I want you to look at and study is not a limb. but the young of the COW, under a year old. I haven't even time to take up calf loves-the childish affections. the unma- ture, foolish fancies of high school lads.
 
 I'm going to take a text from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. prologue 1. 5O4 Full long were his legges. and full lean, YIike a staff, there was no calf yseen."
 Evidently the old gentleman of whom Chaucer wrote. like Shakespeare's man in the sixth stage, had shifted Into the lean and slippered pantaloon, with spec tacles on nose, and pouch on side; his youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide for his shrunk shanks." (His calves all gone)
 We are seeing too few calves grow into cows. There are too many killed. It's a regular slaughter of the innocents that ought to be prohibited. Unless stopped soon all our calves will be gone.
 What I'm driving at Is this Unless America gets as wise as some of the older countries and stops the ruthless slaughter of calves there Is going to be a sure enough meat famine.
 Now, this will interfere with some body's business here in Birmingham, and some good calf-killing folks are going to rise up and make more fuss than mother COW does on the night her 'calflet'' Is led to the butcher pen.
 Did you ever hear the continuous wall of COW separated from her calf? It's long. loud and insistent. It's animal grief at it's highest.
 Not long ago I had to spend the night in the country. A COW and her calf had been separated. I tried to sleep. The mother COW rent the air with her walls My heart for the first 10 minutes went out to her. After that, if the truth be told. I wouldn't have cared if she had been butchered in the same pen with her offspring.
 Israel sinned in worshiping the Golden Calf. I fear we Americans are shining l against common sense in killing calves | that if permitted to grow would become if meat continues to go up, almost worth l their weight in gold.
 Are we to cut out calf meat alto- | gether in the face of the story of the | prodigal son where the killing of the | "fatted calf is played up?
 Oh, if any prodigals come home it l might be permissible to make a feast | and take the life of a little calf But | let's cut out the prodigal business and | save two calves In the process.
 
 of the realtors. If you are not ready | to go all the way with the food conserv- | ors. why Just leave veal off your bill of 1 fare.
 Do you know who it was that suggested | that I devote this column to the saving | of the lives of calves? No, it wasn't | the humane society It was Pantaze, the big-hearted res- taurant man, who wants to eliminate | veal from his bill of fare in order to help the meat situation during these | war times.
 I don't know just exactly how to stop | the slaughter of calves, but there's way, l for I'm told other countries and states | have legislated against it.
 I just start the discussion. Now let | the agitation begin. Whose got an idea? |
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