Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-10-14
Former Soldier Would
Sell Ear TO PypUide for
Wife and Child He Saws
BY Margery Rex.

New York. Oct. 14.-For almost
every demand that may be made
by human being there is human
supply.
Men have come to America seek
ing many things, but one or rhe
, strangest quests on which to come
to this port of New York in many
months is that of Frank Quesada
Of Manzanilla, Cuba, who wants a
left ear.
Ten thousand is the price asked
of Quesada zy woman who has an
ear to sell, although she admits il
is a bit sunburned. And the Cuban
has lately said he would pay that
price for an ear that suited him.
Now an ex-soldier also is ready to
do business with him.
When a horse stepped carelessly
on the left ear of Quesada some
years ago the occurrence was to
bear a direct relation to the high
cost of living today and to show TO
what s2ngths man may be driven
TO KEEP body and soul together-in
this particular case two bodies and
two souls about to be joined by a
third small soul.
Needs the Money.
Il am willing to spare my ear" !"
writes Ivan G. Winger, of No. 359
New York avenue, Jersey City
Heights, for the sake of my wife
and unborn child. / am an ex
soldier and in very bad circum-
stances. l only hopeiI will be the
one preferred
When Winger saw the Cuban's
request and wrote reply his wife
thought it was more or less in
spirit of jest, but he soys he is will
ing to tsand by his statement.
Il earn $25 a week as cabinet
maker in factory says Mr..
Winger. we pay Sc week for
one little room and when we have
the baby 1 don't see how we can
get along. We haven't been able
to saveany money and things look
hopeless.
Young Mrs. Winger is more
cheerful. She doesn't want her
husband MANNED she says, and Is
sure they will manage somehow
Il am against my husband los
ing his ear. That wound be terri
bic. Ten thousand dollars is an aw-
full lot of money, but I wouldn't
want to get it that way | am sure
everything will be all right after
a while"
Would Buy Farm
But think of what we could
do" interposed her husgand. I'll
would leave this part of the counl
try. We would go out west and
buy a farm and live there all our
lives. 1t is impossible for me to-
get any more wages at present.
was in the army two years, but Il
was one of the unlucky ones who
got stuck at Hoboken and never
went across.
-"Even if / had to fight the war
on this side of the ocean had
lust as hard a time going back to
work. Now 1 haven't been work
ing at my present JoS Tong enough
to be able to get more money l.
will have to wait for that"
Winger is slight, dark, thln
featured young man of twenty
five. His wife, who is twenty one
saws before her marriage she was
in a movie producing
company and earned nearly as
much as her husband gets now.
1T would go back to work out
cannot now, with a baby to care
for. I wouldn't have things other
wise. though. l just know every
thing will be all right. ] am not
discouraged" said Mrs. Winger
whose blue eyes are not clouded
with the gloom that her husband
cannot shake off.
Wife Voices Protest
"I can't let him do this thing
she protested.
How many men would pe VIII
to MAIN themselves fcr the sake
of their wives and children? Wouid
not vanity deter almost any aver
age man from such a sacri1lce
cot course l would care Tor MN
anyway, but for his own SAKE l