The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-12-26
100 Men on an Island

Icl Of sustenance. Twenty Eve OF
the men catch fish. Twenty-Five
Others clean the fish. Twenty Eve
cook the fish. Twenty. FIVE hunt
fruit and vegetables. The entire
company eats what thus is gath
cred and prepared.
80 long rs everybody works
there is plenty. All hands are
happy.
stop catching fish.
Ten more dry and hide part of
the fish they catch.
Five continue to catch fish, but
work only part of the day at it.
Fewer 6sh go into the commun-
ity kitchen.
But the same number of men
insist upon having the same
amount.oi fish to eat as they had
before.
The fifty men who formerly
cleaned and cooked the fish have
less TO do owing to the undersup-
ply sf 6sh, But they continue to
demand food.
Gradually greater burdens are
laid upon the fruit and vegetable
hunters. These insist upon a
larger share of fish in return for
their larger efforts in gathering
fruit and vegetables. II is denied
them and soon twenty of the
twenty-five quit gathering fruit
and vegetables
But the entire one hundred men
insist upon their right to eat.
The daily food supply gradually
shrinks. The man with two fish
demands three bananas in exchange
for one of them The man with
two bsuanas refuses to part with
one for FEWER then three tish.
Finally shs tn u,sn remainfnp
at work qnsN in ds.Russ. Every
body continues to eat. The hid.
den fish are brought to light and
consumed. Comes a day when
there is no food of any kind.
Everybody on the island blames
everybody else.
What would seem to be the
solution? Exactly! We thought
you would guess it.
For we repeat that you can't
eat. buy. sell. steal, give away,
hoard, wear, use, play with or
gamble with WHAT ISN'T.
DR.. Morehouse of Sterling was
here Wedn esday for short visit.
Miss Bernice Potter is spending
the vacation at her home in Ar
vada.
Ed Rowse was home for Christ
mas. Mr.. Rowse has been assist
ing in the j. G. Roberts store in
Denver.
Margaret Shaffer went to Dem
yer Friday afternoon to spend a
week with Marian Roller.
Miss Katheryn Marihugh was
home for Christmas from l,enver,
where she is employed in the
United States National bank.
The Sixth Decennial Census,
taken in 184O, was the first one
to cover agriculture statistics, now
one of the most important parts
of the entire census.
Miss Dora Dobbins is quite i'll
Mrs. Dobblns, who has been at the
bedside of another daughter in
Denver, was called home by the
serious condition of Miss Dora.
Miss Eliza Jones, who is making
her home with Mrs. A. @. Dart of
Denver, and Harold Jones, who
lives at the Clayton school in
Denver. and John Jones of Col
den were home for Christmas with
their mother, Mrs. Horace Jones.
In January of the new year there
will be National Thrift Week
from the 17.h to Oath inclusive.
January 19 will be National
Reinsurance Day., January 20
"Own-a a. Home Day." January 2l
"Make-a- Will Day, and January
"a "Pay- Your Bills Day" With
the proper organization back of
these movements good results will
obtain. The question arises,
though, after man has taken
out life insurance policy and
purchased home how is he going
to pay his bills? Perhaps it
would be better to have the Pay
Your Bills Day first and in that
way let the other fellow own q
home.