Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1923-11-03


FORTY CENTS MINUS cents surely leaves 81 cents
said Uncle Rufus. who paid weekend his fertile
farm down in Sposylvania county, Virginia
He added: when drive town and buy five pounds of
pork chops for mother and the children pay ,e cents more per
pound than was offered for hogs the hoof when
them in and placed them sale.
Thus the story of Thytwo Cents becomes very interesting
and incidentally its LOGIC HITS right BETWEEN THE
EYES Here is Negro farmer who help of his loyal
wife and sturdy youngsters able to maturity 100
eay tat pigs representing goodness knows many tender
pork chops to nothing of sausage troes" He
paid high prices for his feed The only thing ne saved On WA,
his labor, for that his comes the tragedy
In the open market this Negro farmer offered cents pound
Tor the live product of his toll and sacrifice Later on he YOU
ana VIII be forced to pay pound for the
same pork. N WV
Ihrtywo cents have been clipped somewhere when YOU
tuck your pound pork CHOPS down IN vc,r or+ h, -
wend your way homeward.
Ts shame! Surel But what are you going to do about
it? Can't YOU find BETTER MARKET PLACE than that
OF the buyer of ancestry? lot has been
said about cooperative buying What cooperative selling
ms Negro farmer and thousands of Others after being
teted around for years. trying get their heads out of the
halter If we consumers help farmers organize we
can thus aid them to fight the wolf enforced market
ing More work for Charles E. Hail. Gilclst Stewart the
Negro Business League and others who would reduce the
40 Cents and increase the cents thereby making substantial
ehase III the 81 cents OF which merchants and
business men should handle deal more than they do
IS s. a
WHEN FRANK DANIELS riding 10 theatrical glory
III vehicle known THE Tattooed Man" no one reame
a his sarlca parodes entitled In Washington would ever
become colorul mbbng the fractions thoughts troubled
people, and causing urclns Tea streets to interrupt
their playful moments long enough How Come?
And why? Well In Washington just now Attorney VIII
liam L. Houston of the School Board without malice afore
thought doubt has resolution upon the River OF
Doubt which causing concentrated thoughts in the minds
OF Washington school teachers than has been pleasure
to indulge III since Dr. Chancellor Superintendent Schools
Bill Houston has literally rocked euuanmitv v
proposing resolution which would REL EGATE the MARRIED
SCHOOL TEACHERS Of Washington FROM CAESAR and
QUADRAIlCS BACK TO the IIOMEI4Y TASKS of baking
not biscuits and keeping their husbands linen white and clean
In other words MIR. Houston would ELIMINATE the FE
MALE SCHOOL, TEACHER who is MARRIED. and thus
give the NORMAL. SCHOOL. GRADUATES a CHANCE to
I'D appointed.
Houstons friends have SEEN THE POINT are backing
him in every way. They point the fact that number of
ratings with Mr. Bradstree keeping number promising
normal graduates from being appointed and that hence their
parents prevented receiving portion their
reimbursement for the of expense toll
invested in educating their daughters
The married teachers have the cross suit that
EFFICIENCY is the MAIN OBJECTIVE, and that it is an
ndsputab presumption that they efficient mpartng
knowledge to the kdes than their youthful rivals know
nothing of the lessons learned through experience and mother
hood
Well Mr.. Houston surely started things agoing I'm Wash
ineon and will that you'll your moneys
WORTH before this momentous question finally settled