Evening star., 1923-07-20

tortal CHOIR or quartet, all the rest of
the senators may take to tenor and
baritone; Magnu3 Johnson will be the
bass, provided the amplifiers are trained
exclusively on them other fellers.'
The wish OF the poet will then Ger
refrain: "Oh. for a lodge In some vast
wilderness" II is inconceivable, in ad-
vance, what will be the roar that will
succeed the erstwhile calmness of the
stately halls OF legislation, when Mag
nus Will "volley and thunder"
Il Il II
A funeral notice became famous be-
cause in it was included the announce
ment that business continues at the
old stand" 1t has remained for the
gentleman from the Ozarks OF Missouri,
Representative Manlove. newly elected.
to display upon his fine office door, a
huge poster: PLAY in the Ozarks-the
land OF million smiles"
This puzzled a tourist who shifted :
The Ozarks amt much-can't be: too
far from Arizona"
Them old conservatives-'them fell
| lers who wear swallow tails and go out
in that there Washington high sassiety"
protest that such advertising lacks
congressional dignity. But the senator
from Iowa and the new senator from
Minnesota are yet to be heard from.
How about the pigs and corn Of Iowa?
How about the bread basket of the
world? VIII they be advertised or will
they not? Just asking for information.
Whose funeral" is this?
The Department of the Interior is re-
ported to be planning TO give accelera-
ton to it's coal mining operations Oh
government owned coal lands. IT con-
trols nearly 10000. 900 acres of coal, To-
Gated in fifteen states, and there are
100 government mines, located in eight
states. The number Of such mines
could be augmented very easily, say the
officials. SO that il would not be neceS-
sary that the government contiscate
private coal mines. in order to produce
coal to supply It's own needs. If the
government mines supplied all coal that
the government needed for its own use.
that would so decrease the demand on
private mines. that the operators would
be glad to deliver to the public at rea-
sonable cost.
1t is astonishing how much is thought
possible If only the human stomach Will
come to the aid of the party. A few
days ago. propaganda originating with
the Minneapolis flour millers told Ameri-
cans that if each would eat an extra
slice of bread a day. that would con-
sumo 150.000.000 extra bushels OF
wheat, and thereby save the farmers
from the dumps Evidently. the eating
has not yet begun. for wheat ralsers
are losing money on their crop now
ripening TO an August harvest.
Next comes a similar appeal, but THIS
is in the English parliament, where a
member tells his colleagues that If Eng
land twould produce even one-third OF
the bacon and eggs she consumes. that
would soon get her out of her war debts.
England now eats s765.oOO,OU0 worth
of bacon and eggs in a year. The pro-
posal was received in parliament with
merry laughter. The great estates. with
their thousands of idle acres, cannot
easily be turned into piggeries and hen
neries.
Similar conditions do not hold in this
country, for farmers who are producing
pork are not making money out or IL,
and city wage earners say they cannot
afford the time 70 bother with hens,
! when their time brings from 81 TO 50
an hour. A hod-carrier is reported 10
be earning 500 week in New York
because he works long hours daily, at
So an hour Only where there are
members of the family. otherwise unen-
ployed. can home gardening or poultry
raising be made profitable i'll competi-
tion with current wages.
Copyright. 1898. by p. Y. Collins.)