The producers news., 1927-03-04
By UPTON SINCLAIR

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vote for Him and after that He has
got to find something for them to
do"
Well / had thought | must be care
ful not to leave Mrs. Edgerton out
of this conversation so | says, "a lit
tie while ago, Mrs Edgerton / thot
] understood about this here econo-
my business but now / find it is com
plicated and there is something that
Mr.. Edgerton or maybe yourself
might explain"
"And what is that" she says.
"Well it is this business that you
can never economize in nothing with
out turning somebody out of work.
But it is a terrible thing for working
people to be out of jobs" / says,
right now my Pop is scared that he
he may lose his job at the gas-works
and him with a half dozen kids
growing up and why should them
kids have to starve just because some
people is took it into their heads to
cconomize on gas bills?"
perhaps we had better go in to
the table," says Mrs. Edgerton and
so there is the dining room and gee
Nom if you could see how them peo-
pie live they are surely making jobs
for the poor. The table is all got
solid piece of glass over the whole
top and there is a centre-piece that is
hand-embroidered lace and you have
got a hand-embroidered dolly in
front of your place and there is real
silver and what | guess is cut-glass
and there is little electric candles at
each place and there is two sorts of
wine glasses we'll Nom all | can say
is that | am glad l have took your
advice and studied the etiquette books
and practiced them so that now | do
not have to be ratified but can give
my thoughts to being intellectual.
Well we have got started on some
oyster cocktails and | says, "Have
/ you thought up any way to undo
| them blunders of ours and get the
| people to liking the Spokesman
again? And he says, "No | have
not"
Ard so | says, 81 have been think
/
looking at the pictures of the Spokes-
man that | see in the papers and it
seems to me they are wrong. Have
you ever thought about them 2" "No. /"
he says, 81 can't say that have
what is it,"
And so ! tell him, "They are all
pictures that is took in regular
clothes like a business Man with a
white collar and one of them hundred
and twenty-five dollar suits on. But
the most of the people in this coun-
try don't look like a fashion model"
! says, land they don't wear white
collars except on Sunday and the
Fourth of July. 1t seems to me
they would be a lot more interested
in listening to the Spokesman's adj
vice about how to live their lives il
they thought He lived the same
kind of lives that they do"
So he sits very thoughtful and hC
, says, THAT might be a worthwhile
idea" he says. "What would yol
suggest Miss Riggs"
WELL" | says, what was it tha
, the Spokesman done when He wa
young back there in the State o
North Carolina?"
, North Carolina?" says he. "Yol
mean Vermont, don't you?"
"Well | can never keep then
states straight" says. 81 knew
was up in the North somewhere, bu
what was it He done?"
"Well He was raised on a farm. Z"
"All right then that is fine ther
is still lots of farmers in this coun
{ try | guess. So why don't He got u
, there to the old homestead and ge
. some pictures took while He is pitch
=. ing the hay?"
= "You are a little ahead of time,
says Mr.. Edgerton 81 am afrai
o they have still got snow on tina
Y homestead up there"
G 'Well then let Him go shovel tn
l. snow it will do just as good"
0 "He is hardly husky enough Ma
1 for snow-shovelling," says Mr.. EC
q gerton.
"Ihat is al right" / says, "
don't take long to get a picture M
l. even a movie" | says. "The poir
It is that the plain people can see I'll
= Spokesman with His coat and coli;
off and looking like them. | lno
is how it is with my own Pop if he W;
n to see a picture Of the Spokesman
l. pair of blue overalls and a b
it wrench in His hand and it was hea
lie ed the Spokesman mends His ov
he gas pipe up there at the big whi