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Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1926-11-20
3 CHEERS FOR LABOR
THE LOW COST OF z-YEAR-O iDS
COMPLETE IMMERSION -
40 YEARS YOUNG
BY Arthur Brisbane

Mr.. Green. head Of The American
Federation Of Labor, hssvsa hasas
him, declares that labor wants .
powerful navy, that Tie United
States may b properly defended
and ready fer Gvuhls.
=, Workman would b wssss than
foolish to want . lAtSou uprs-
pared, sinos thsy bear ths bTunt
when fighting comes. Big fellows
display their patriotism by max
ing q fat profit in war. Little -
lows get shot Rasssd. diseased.
etc.
' Mr.. Green and his Federation
Of Labor win no doubt advocate
the right kind Of preparedness. A
great battle AssS in the air, an
other be,0v IL water. Subma-
rines to destroy enemy ships as
they comet airplanes to beat of
airships, sink enemy merchantmen
and war vessels. Those are the
things this country needs.
To he too fat doesn't neces-
sarily mean over-eating. Often It
means defective metabo lism, Inn
perfect elimination. A Prisoner
fed on bread and water for two
weeks gained three pounds. Tho
bread and water diet put his sys-
tenn to work.
Mothers and fathers should be
interested in the fact that tuber-
sulosis is increasing among young
girls. Girls starve themselves
to keep thin and tuberculosis
germs attack a weak body with
insufficient blood supply.
The responsibility is with par
ents that lose all control of their
childen, beyond retaining the hon
or of paying their bills.
Human beings cost money to
raise and many are not worth it
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1926-11-20

Mr.. Rockefeller might reply, but
doesnt that he II building apart
nonts 70 rent ut reasonable prices
to those that can't afford high
prices. That every apartment has
It's be4h, 20 every tenant can enjoy
complete immersion three times q
day. DR.. Fosdick will tell DR..
Straton that complete immersion
was more important In old days,
when nobody had bathtub, and
somebody had to Sst the good ex-
ample. -.
Ga
Irving Fisher, Yale professor,
bets $40 to 81 that this will be q
nation Of octogenarians by the end
Of the century.
That prediction is no exaggera-
ton. Men, one day, will live
habitually to be 40 years. But
with a life average Of eighty
years only, 1t will be necessary
to revise various things, including
the age at which men marry.
Population would soon become
unweildy If a race of octogenari-
ans married at twenty or twenty
five years of age and went on
having children for half century.
Nature, however, would find
way to take care of that. She al
ways does.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1926-11-20

The Rsvsrsmd DR.. Straton, ar
dent fundamsntalist, objects to
tho Revsesnd Dr.. Fosdick, who
doesn't believe Joshua once
stopped the sun in its journey
around IL earth. possibly because
the sU Ssesat 60 around the
earth.
3o&n D. Rockefeller, Jr., sits
Yndse DR. Vosdick. So that Rev.
6txahop stacks Mr.. Rockefeller,
9ee np< believing that every Bap-
ttst should b baptised all the
WY up 70 the top Of his head and
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1926-11-20

Ill. the imperfect being all pre-
served, and children of the ablest
made worthless by their fathers
money success.
California's State Board of
Health says a two-year-old baby
costs less pr day than at AN,
Other age-less sickness than at
any time, less expense in other
ways.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1926-11-20

From two to twenty years COS.
steadily rises. After sixty it falls
oh-fewer teeth, eat less, clothes
last longer, life runs quietly and
nonsense - calming down.
All interesting, but the State
Board does not tell us why we
live ut al, or why it was neces-
sary to put Us here in the first
place.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1926-11-20

Human beings cost money to
raise and many are not worth it
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-16

strengthen and build up another.
Clearly it is not the policy of an an
thrust act to accomplish this re-
suit" %
A year following the postpone
ment of the case, April, 1925, the
court announced that the packer
consent" decree had been suspend
ed, and on May 9, that it had been
wiped out. Here ends another chap
ter of a governments fruitless, flu
tile and fraudulent efforts to "regu-
late" monopolies.
AS a testimonial to the benefits"
of government Investigations, the fol-
lowing extract from the letter of the
chairman of the federal trade COM
mission considered by the United
States president, Calvin Coolidge, in
February, 1926, is Illuminating:
From "6ig Five" to "Big Two"
Probably the most significant
change that has occurred recently in
the relative sizes of the different
packer groups has been brot about
thru the purchase of the business of
Morris and company by Armour and
company. BY this acquisition Armour
and company increased its proportion
of the total inspected slaughter of all
animals from ia per cent in 1923 to
1916 per cent in 1924, which PRACTICAL
ly equals the Swift and company pro-
portion last year of 24.2.
'The combined slaughter OF Armour
and company and Swift and company
for the fiscal year ending June 80.
1924, was AT of the total slaughter
of all animals and 1877 per cent of
the group formerly known as the Big
Five The other surviving members
of this group, Wilson and company
(inc.) and the Cudahy Packing COM
pany, last year slaughtered 1873 per-
cent of the total inspected slaughter
and only 21.3 per cent. of the Big
Five proportion Of the total.
"These differences in the two big
packer groups make it apparent that
there is no longer a Big Five or,
strictly speaking, even Big Four
With Armour and company and Swift
and company today Strengthening prac-
tically As per cent Of the total kill it
is more proper to refer to them as
lie Big Two"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-16
Packers and Bankers Fuse.

garbage OF large cities!
Packers and Bankers Fuse.
AS meat-packing is the largest in
dustry in the United States both as to
the value Of its raw material and the
value of its products, banks are espec-
tally important to the packers. And
on the other hand, because of the
quick stock turnover and the enorm-
ity Of profits, meat packing is of
tempting interest to bankers. So the
fusion Of banking capital with this in.
dustry's capital is pronounced. 1t is
estimated that the "Big Two" own
stock in or are represented on the
directorates thru relatives or person
ally of at least "A banks, with capital
aggregating almost $4,000, 900, 600
These include Wall Streets bulwark,
the National City Bank, of which J..
Ogden Armour is a director.
Besides this, some of the most pow
erful groups in the country. the Chase
National Bank, Guaranty Trust Co,
Kuhn, Loeb and company, VIM. Salo-
mon and company and Hallgarten and
company now own the Wilson pack
ing firms, warmly WELDON I'd by both
Armour and Swift, who are said to
have remarked that this arrangement
is most satisfactory"
No Limit, Says U. S. Report.
"There is virtually no limit to the
possible expense of the big packers
wholesale merchandising short Of
the complete rnonopolization of the
primary distribution of the nations
food" according to the statement of
the United States federal trade
commission in 1919.
This statement came as the result
Of the last of prolonged series of
costly, exhaustive government inves-
legations of the meat packing indus
try. The big Five" packers at that
time were judged guilty of a gigantic
conspiratorial combination in re-
straint of trade. Definite recommends
tions were made that the government
acquire the ownership of the means
of transportation, storage and market
ing held by them, leaving only the
Strengthening houses in their hands.
Added to this was the proposal that
municipal abbatoirs be opened as
soon as practical.
Six volumes of discriminating data
(under the Sherman antitrust Iaws)
were gathered by the commission, suf-
ficient to make claims of free compe-
tition" smell as bad as did the spoiled
beef the packers sold the government
for its soldiers, despite the fact that
it was given an acid bath.
U. S. Government Lends a Hand.
And the packers likewise "sold" the
government as far as the investiga-
ton was concerned. AS might readily
be imagined, the government did not
attempt to carry out the commissions
recommendations, which practically
instructed it to monopolize the meat
packing industry,-but allowed itself
to be monopolized instead. AS a re-
suit, almost every action of congress,
of the department of agriculture or
Of the supreme court since the report,
has been of such benefit to the big
packers that they couldn't have pros
pered more If they themselves had
been the government.
Furnishing the Packers.
However, certain legal motions of
spanking" the packers were pomp-
ously performed by the supreme court
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-16

The two years had scarcely begun
to pass before strenuous efforts were
made to have the decree modified,
packers bringing pressure to bear
from many sources. This move was
led by the California Cooperative
Canneries, whose contract with Arm
our and company was to have been
cancelled as the result of the decree's|
admonition that no packer engage in
the distribution of products unrelated
to his industry.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-16

The California case brot an inter-
esting turn of events. Two wholesale
grocers' associations,-the Southern
and the National, filed petitions in
which they took a positive stand
against modification of the consent"
decree to permit packers to continue
their operations in the wholesale groc-
cry business and thus subject grocers
to unfair packer competition because
of the financial power of the packers
and their superior advantages. in
transportation.
That the grocers were right In
their contentious was borne out by
the commissions report, which had
stated that the packers immense
selling organization assures them
almost certain supremacy In any
line of food stuffs that they want
to handle" and that, "at the present
rate of expansion, within a few
years the big packers would control
the wholesale distribution Of the
nations food supply"
1t seems to be a law of capitalist
economics that 1t takes trust to bust
a trust. And, of course. the mightiest
trust wins. So the allegedly budding
wholesale grocers' trust didn't stand
chance when face TO face with the
big Five" in the court of appeals.
This court declared, humorously
enuf, on June 2, 1924, that IF /. !.
the wholesale grocers are using the
decree against the packers to
strengthen and build up giant mo-
nopoly in their own rious and vari-
ed lines of business, there would
seem to be demand for a serching in
quiry as to whether or not the court
is being used as an agency to restrain
ne monopoly and thereby promote,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-16
Furnishing" the Packers.

However, certain legal motions of
spanking the packers were pomp-
ously performed by the supreme court
in order to deceive the public into the
belief that it had been saved" Feb.
"a, 1920, the u. S. attorney general
filed with the court a petition alleg-
ing unlawful combination between the
big Five" and asking "relief."
In reply, the packers entered a
consent" decree, in which they
agreed to discontinue. but STIMULATING
that their offer should be understood
as coming from persons innocent" OF
combination. "The keenest competi-
ton exists between u.s." they asserted.
Certain steps believed necessary by
the attorney general to unscramble
the packers omelete were-outlined, en-
bodying requirements supposed to be
within two years.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-16

contracting for the disposal of the
garbage of large cities!
Evening star., 1926-10-18
Are Your Children Nourished?

DO your children go to school?
How do Jimmy and Sally like school?
Are their marks good? Is their health
good?
Do you think because they get off
to school on time your responsibility
is cndod until o'clock? 4 child S
progress in school and his health dur
ing the school year is founded on his
home life.
A school child spends more tir1e at
home than ne docs il! school. People
who love ligurcS have calculated a
chi}i spends ] geo hours year in the
classroom. tTe spends 5000 hours of
normal waking time at home, count
ing saturdays, Sundays, holidays and
vacations. He sleeps at home. He
eats at home. How much he sleeps
and what he eats affect his school
work. His growth ard future health
are affected by what he eats during
these early years.
IN 1921 an expert made a summary
Of figures arrived at through exafnina-
tons OF 10000 900 American school
children. she found per cent to be
mentally defective. per cent to be
tuberculous or had been in the past,
25 per cent had defective sight, Is per
cent had diseased t0nsils or adenoids,
50 to IS per cent had defective teeth,
ard Is to % per cent were suffering
from lnalnutrition."
Tie mental detectives might pos
s.bly blame their mothers who during
pregnancy did not live and eat cor
rectly. The tubcrcuicus children
might also blame both parental food
tor not starting them off with
S r0ng bodies-and certainly wrong
feeding and wrong care after birth.
Parents should he sure their children
are not suffering with )ad eyes.
When animals are restricted to diet
lacking in vitamin A there develops
in a few weeks a diseased condition of
the eyes. Children in Japan, Den
mark, England. India, suffer with eye
affections because Of q diet lacking in
vitamin A.
THE lack CT vitamin A, present in
certain fats Gutter, egg yolk, cod
liver oiD, has caused the appearance
Of an eye disease among people in
various parts Of the world and at
various times"
Diseased tonsils and adenoids need
attention, for they are q predisposirg
cause Of maInutrition. The defective
IN the expectant mothers diets. and
to lack of enough lime in the diet of
young children before the coming of
the second teeth. Bad teeth cause
malnutrition. Aside from the poisons
the teeth might drain into the chill
dren's systems, no one can properly
Evening star., 1926-10-18
EAT AND BE HEALTHY
Dinah Days Daily Talks on Diet
The Right Food Is the Best Medicine

chew his food with aching teeth.
Foods which supply lime and exercise
the teeth are necessary to make good
teeth.
The Is to 25 per cent suffering with
plain malnutcition had their parents
to blame f0r Inadequate care and
wrong feeding. And it is not only in
the homes of the poverty-stricken that
investigators find plain malnutrition.
It is often IN the homes of supposedly
Intelligent people 1t is in the homes
Of people wcll able 10 buy good food.
The children are getting wrong food,
Tt is not alone starvation which pro-
duCcS nalnut'itior, \ child might
eat three meals q day and niblSe IN
between times and still not he provid-
ing his teeth. bones and blood with
the food required for heal,h and
strength.
Not "foodless food" but food with
real nourishment, chock-fuil Of min
eral elements for teeth, bones and
blood. Proper food will give the
youngsters q good start for health,
happiness and prosperity.
Readers desiring personal answers should
send self-addrcssed. slammed envelope 10
Dinah Day, care OF The Star.
Evening star., 1926-10-18

as some histories relate? Were there
not men whom you would CaIl ~ TN.
popular phrase good Americans" on
the British side of the issue?
Answer-There were, ana they IL
cluded some of the foremost leaders oi
their time. Others, like Or. Johnson
in ENGLAND and not a few residents
in the colonies, were honest btt mis-
taken in their antagOnism TO the
Revolutionary movement. Their at
tuda is scarcely surprising, since revu
lulionS have always divided men.
The makers and builders Of &C.
freedom ere no one lands monorol}
Lafayette. in France. Paul Jones. her"
of the high seas; Thomas Payne. VIII
wrought for us on both sides Of the
Atlantic. and Gallatin, that loyal and
eloquent Swiss immigrant. must be
listed with Chatham, Fox. Burke.
Shelburne and Barre in tho successful,
establishment of American independ
encC
In order to contribute to our demoC
racy the British statesmen sacrificed
political honOrS and emoluments. went
into the cold shades uf opposition, and
remained there for years.
These aspects OF the conflict are
clearly understood by the scholars OF
Canada, Great Britain and the United
States. The plain people Of tho ma
tions in question are also beginning to
realize them. Meanwhile, as you sug
gest III your letter. we need 10 quart
against the partisans who ende1vor 70
perpetuate i'll will by distOrting his
tory. They are the unconscious foes
of the progress ali alike desire. AMI
this applies to prejddiced and embit
tered persons wherever found.
(Ccpyright, 1926l
Evening star., 1926-10-18

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Evening star., 1926-10-18
Pattern offered Gratis.
A4ELD Il h1YEL ~ & OA2AEAC ". BURGESS

Was good. He began 10 hope that he
MIGHT find an old deserted Meadow
u Use home SOmeWGC. .. -" WOhui
Nike to stay on that meadow for i
while. He was trott:ng along with
this thought Ia mind when he came
to . sharp turn IN the path. As he
rounded il he almost bumped into an
other Meadow Mouse. Yes, sir, he did
So Right away that Meadow Mouse
drew back and showed all his teeth.
"Wh0 are you?" he demanded iercelT.
Now, Danny didn't feel like fighting
He tried to he polite. Tin n stIan-
-e.," said he. mildly. IL that suueaky
LITTLE voice Of his. | am u stranger
trying TO get across this meadow
strangers are not wanted here, "
squcaSed the stranger. You can t
cross this meadow. At least, you cant
cross it on one of my paths, and this
is my path. [ cut it myself"
"All right" replied Danny, meekly,
'if you don't want me to use your
path, III cut one Of my own"
You'll do nothing of the kind" re-
torted the stranger You'll turn
around and get back OF this meadow
as fast as your legs can take YOU, or
! III know the reason why"
1t was now Danny's turn to lose his
temper. All right, YOU IL know the
reason why" he sQueaked, and show
ed all his sharp teeth.
Now the stranger may have been
something Of a bully, bur ha was no
coward. He jumped at Danny, and
Danny met him half way. Then began
q rough ana tumble fght. MY. nv.
it was dreadful to see such q loss of
temper. They rolled over and over
1 in the grass and used their teeth and
claws, and they fought and fought
until they couldn't fight any more.
They had 10 stop 20 rest The stra n
! ger was iusl as big and just as strong
as DANNY. Danny was Just as good
/" fighter IS the stranger, So, of
course, neither one won the fight.
I v hen 1T least they stoppedd fighting
each looked at the other and CRIME /.
/ Let's nc friends said the stranger.
II guess there's room enough on this
meadow for YOU SIS well as Tor. me"
Thanks replied Danny. 'IlI stay
q day or two if you don't mind"
I The stranger orered his mouth to
say something. but instead gave Il
squeal Of fright ana took TO his heels,
! tCoDymgbt. 19o6)
Evening star., 1926-10-18
LITTLE BENNY
BY LEF p3PF.

Ma was darnine holes out OF socks
and pop was smoking behind the
sporting page and / was wishing J
tlaanr naff to 10 my homework, say
ing, Hay r!a, hay pop, watts good for
the heeCups?
Take swallows of water without
stopping. it never fales, ma sCd, and
pop sed, s nuthing, that's all sooper-
sutton the eXerciZa OF a little will
power IS sufficient TO stop eny case
OF heeCups, make up your mind to stop
ana YOU i STOP.
Coed lands, WiIlyur1, the boy is no
hipD01lst, that's sheer unadu terated
fiDn1oti2m, ma snd. swallows Of
water invaribiy makes me stop with
cut fa!e, she sed.
The water has nuthing TO do with It..
YOU nicely make up your mind that
your cured and your cured, tbs whole
thing is mental, you mite rs well
make up your mind in the ferst place
and save all that water, pop sed.
How can it be mental, people don't
heacup with their branes, do they?
ma sed.
No. hut they imagine they cant stop,
so they reely cant, I'm CRATE be-
leever in Will power. pop sed.
never knew l married hipmOdst,
hee hee, ma sed, and pop sed, Well
according to your principal If you
drank bucllirs Of water without stop
ming YOU'D never have heecupS agen
as long as you lived,
New your taWking about fZzical i'm
possibilities, ma sed, and pop sed,
Enyway, 1 don't heer eny heecups 60
ing on around haer, he cured himself
py will power. prooerly.
No sir / didemt have eny, was jest
wondering in case ! did. sed, and
pop sed, zee gods, and ma sed, 0, do
your iessins.
Wich | did.
Evening star., 1926-10-18

some papers and went right to work.
I suppose he thinks those five
brats of his are the only children in
the world.
1 dashed out to the hospital at
noon with fruit and magazines for
Joan ana pink rattle for the baby.
Joan stared at me for q minute and
then she said II was such pretty
rattle She would keep it until she and
tho baby came home: she didn't want
it to get dirty around the hospital.
And then she put her face in the
pillow and I think she was crying.
[ guess she's feeling pretty un-
strung.
[ went back this evening and she
told me to bring home our sons night
gown and shirt and band and wash
them and take them back to the
hospital tomorrow. So l brought
them home, and I was called down
by the janitors wife for using the
washing machine in the basement
after o'clock. I showed her the
laundry and explained it had to be
done. She sort of doubled up and ran
out. Women are funny.
I got them washed, anyway, and
hung them up in the drying room.
There wasn't another piece of laun-
dry on the lines, and they looked so
pathetic ali alone there, darn If
didn't bust right out crying.
Evening star., 1926-10-18

The incest thing 70 put in fine an
tique cradle would he, of course, new
baby, but, lacking a baby, 1t may still
be made useful.
This old cradle is used as a Woodbox,
and is just enc OF many Interesting de-
tails in a delightfully."- Old timey bed
room.
The room has an old-fashioned wall
paper showing bright red and blue
posies on q buff co;ored background.
The woodwork, admirably simple in
character has been painted cream
color, and the floor Of wide boards IS
apple green. The furniture of the
room is all Loney-colored antique ma
pie, while the cradle and the lining Of
the cupboard are a SOFT Chinese red.
At the NInall-paned windows are
huns Curtairs of bT.@ht blue organdy
drawn back over tie-backs OF ruby
glass.
Copyright. 1926.>