New Britain herald., 1929-04-27

at the Stanley hotel for many years. Shame on Chicax0 for Trying to Upset the Dietary laws
 Rally. New Englanders, rally!
 There's treason afoot in the land
 Out in Chicago where the young idea is taught to shoot straight. they're banishing pie from the menu served at high school cafe terias
 Shades Of the Pilgrims who land ed on that rock bound coast and. stopping at the first hot dog stand, inquired What kind of pie have you got?"
 Through storm and stress these glorious United States have strug- gled forward with pie on the table or in the pantry. Think hard and try to recall any great general or admiral who ever uttered word against pie. It can't be done. There never was such an animal.
 Pie has been the staff of life for generations. It is something from which we have never been weaned. Imagine a Thanksgiving table with out several kinds of pie. The imag- ination staggcrs at the very sugges- tion
 What did those hardy pioneers who rolled over the prairies in and with their schooners have for des- sert to bolster up their wavering spiritso Pie. Of course. Tn the thick of battle with Indians, many a tired invader of the golden west ate his fill of pie and went back to the fight with renewed vigor which made the Redskins flee.
 IL wasn't so long ago you would step into any we'll managed res ia aurant in Boston and get plate Of beans. cup of coffee and a wedge of pie for fifteen cents.
 History tells us that King George shipped over an assortment of pies and demanded that the colonisfs pay taxes on them and that the col onists dumped them into the water and 'humbed their noses at George anu tit I'SI oi HIN 'ie w. 'Nhe ''>t since then children's spirits have been stirred by the story of the "Poston Pie Party
 When the common people Of France complained to their queen that they had no bread to eat, she tar,ly replied Well. then. eat pie
 Everyone remembers Xii ling 8 poem about "Gunga Dihn." the regi- mental pie carrier who stumbled over dead bodies and reached the side of dying master and fed him pie.
 Where. we ask in all seriousness. would this nation be today if it wasn't for pie7 No nation could live on cream puffs, for example. And while pigs knuckles and fruit cake make delicious eating, they can't take the place of pie? Even whipped cream don't claim that their lavorite dish is a substitute for pie.
 Pie is the ne plus ultra Of the New England breakfast table. II is the staple sweet in every New Eng land home. IL is the crowning glory of the kitchen. And yet Chicago. de generate Chicago. flannts its de- gcneracy in the face of the ghosts Of the fathers of this country and declares that pie will not be served at high school lunch counters. The very effrontery of the city is in keeping with its character. Soon. for all We know, Chicago will fail to enforce prohibition. One downward step such as the educators sug2es, and the rest will be plunge into sin and wickedness. A child who , lies is in danger of ending his days
 in prison because lying leads to awful crimes. Thus il is with Chi , cago. One step away from the path Of civic virtue and Satan will do the rest IL wouldn't be surprising to hear in a few years that Chicago is a town in which there is general contempt for Jaw and order.
 Danish pie. Tear down the Statue of Liberty. bio" up the national 1 capital. dry up the Mississippi. l., inc elements eat away the Washing ton monument. rip our national cul- ture out by the roots and fling it to the winds. but don't let them spread that horrible ldea about Die not be. ing good for person.
 | Shall We ha E a twentieth amend in"n' Thou shall not eat pie % 1 No. by all the heroes who eye, fought and bied for their country, ' by all that We nod dear in our his ! tory and in our homes. we shall op- i pose such & course with our last ! breath
 1 Give us pie or give us death.