Hickory daily record., 1922-11-06
WANT SOMETHING DONE
TO PROTECT HUSBANDS
Concord Tribun,

NOIlCOTU 4TlUuIc.
Do you want to join union organ
lied for the purpose of protecting
friend husband? That such a union
is being organized is made plain in
the following letter received by a
member of The Tribune-Times force
from a friend in Raleigh:
It's like I am telling you something
should ought to be did about these
wives killing off their husbands. No
less, than half dozen husbands who
was living last week this time aint
living now. And why? I ask you. ]
would not mind so much. but most
of the husbands who has already been
killed off were old husbands like you
and me. have gone over the circum-
stances surrounding the killings and
with the exception of one or two cases
don't see no excuse for these perfect
ly good husbands to have been killed.
Of course there is the case of the lady
in Philadelphia on trial charged with
killing her husband. Oscar. Well,
friend, will excuse her for that. How
Oscar ever lived long enought with
that name to attach himself to wife
S more than l can figure out.
Something must be done. The hus-
bands aint keeping up to standard. l
have looked clean through all the pa
pers TODAY and find that only one hus-
band secured his daily average today
and killed him wife. The women's
average beats ours to l. What
is getting the matter with these hus-
bands?
Now, friend, something is got to be
lone, and did quick or they aint going
to be but a few husbands left. 1t has
been the custom since the world be-
gan that if anybody must be killed the
husbands killed off the wifes. don't
ike either system, but I like the old
iystem better than l do the new with
he wifes killing off the husbands. Of
course a lot of these husbands of the
home grown variety should ought to
"a killed because / some time have to
wonder how they ever got that way,
anyhow.
Friend, what I propose doing is to
organize husbands union. We could
call it the International Benevolent
md Protective Husbands Union. l
lnow you would like to become a
'harter member. We must have pro-
ection from some of these wiffes, not
lecessarily your own, but other mems
vifes. You will note that lady that
Tiled that preacher in Montana was
lot the preachers wife. She was some
other mans wife, but she killed her a
husband just the same.
/ always will believe that I narrow
Y escaped death a week or so ago. On
Monday night of fair week l went out
sight seeing, including dance and all
shat sort of thing. Well, friend. r.
;kidded in home about two a. m. moro
'r less, mostly more, just like any 9TH
r old time simon pure husband is liza
de to do in Raleigh during fair week.
Well to make a short s.ory longer, I
will saw / am still here. However,
here is but one thing that saved me
md that was because they was no
annons around my house. Anyway,
we are on speaking terms again. Now,
you see if had have been a new hus-
band, trained in the business by the
present day flapper, I would have ex-
,ected to get murdered in going in at
hat hour, but ! was surprised at my
vife's attitude because have been a
'egular husband for seventeen years,
more or less, mostly more.
But back to the union. Friend, we
must organize for our protection. II
avor uniformed rank. We could
ouv some old howitzers from the gov
irnment, get few machine guns and
give the kind of protection to hus-
1ands that husbands apparently need.
Of course we would be particular
about who we let in the union. We
could not permit any Oscar husbands,
or Percy husbands and those kind of
fellows to come in. / would favor
silling off the Oscars and Percies be-
ore the wifes got to them.