Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-04-20
REFLECTIONS
By Sadie Mcclure.

Piggly-wiggly went to market, all
right, on the New York stock Tx
change. and drove all the other big
and little piggies home.
The American workmen are GER
tainly some 'cut-ups." Forty per
cent Of the cutlery used in the whole
world is manufactured IN the United
States.
John d. Rockefeller's income Is a
million a month. Oh, well. John Bar
leycorn had an income of several
times that amount and he finally
went to the mat without taking any
OF 1t with him.
There isn't enough lumber pro-
duced on Grays Harbor to make
planks strong enough in the platform
Of either the Democratic or Republi-
can party that organized labor will
collectively support in 1924.
The downfall of ex-Kaiser Bill Ho-
henzollern seems to be complete. The
former princess has left his bed and
board. probably because William in.
sisted on frequently reminding her
what a good woman his first wife
really was.
There soon VIII be hundreds OF sick
grandmOthers on the Harbor The
baseball season Is about to open, and
the office boy (and the office boys
boss. for that matter), will come to
the front with the stereotyped, aged
and legitimate excuse.
o
General Leonard Wood. who was a
candidate for the presidential nomi-
nation four years ago, has decided
that he will not run again in 1924
Welcome news. There are enough
blockheads in Congress now without
the possibility Of adding more timber.
President Harding, during his west
ern tour. has informed the press that
the speeches from the rear platform
of his private car will all be on the
achievements OF the last Congress.
The engine attached to his train viii
also assist him by belching forth huge
rings OF smoke-made ciphers.
o.
II Mrs Wally Reid is as good a
workman at her trade as she is q del
egate from the Lady BARRIERS to the
Central Labor Council, am sorry Pm
not a mere man. I'll bet no one would
take me for poet from the length Of
my hair, and I'd get shaved ever day.
No doubt she can dye hair also, but
don't want to let her know mine isn't
natural"
Henry Ford has nailed an American
Legion plank into his political plat
form by opening the immense Henry
Ford hospital in Detroit to all Michi-
gan disabled war veterans, who have
been denied treatment by the United
States government on account ofithe
formality and red tape necessary be-
fore they could be admitted to gov.
ernment-controlled institution.
O.
Isn't 1t just perfectly lovely to 20 to
picture show and have some one
park alongside Of you who reads the
titles aloud presumably on the theory
that you are unable to read them
yourself? enjoy a good film, but
when one of these "selfservice sys-
TENS" disturbs my evenings enter
tainment, become so exasperated
that threaten to marry book agent.
o.
The writer Of the Small Change"
column In the Portland Journal the
other day said that the heading
speaking Of a boat, "'Norma Is Get.
ting Her Bottom Scraped at Termi-
nal No. A." was appropriate and ali
right, as it appeared on the marine
page, but had 1t become mixed up
with the motion picture news, as Il
often the case in making up big daily
newspapers, the result would have
been disastrous.
The Aberdeen city council is Ger.
tainly saving money on its electric
light bills. ! was on Heron street at
2 O'Clock on recent morning (n0, !
won't tell you why was out SO late),
and the surroundings carried my
think-tank back to Biblical times
about Moses when the light went
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