Evening star., 1935-07-27
Depressions Of 1865
And 1885 Compared

The depression following the big war
between the States was as to the depres-
sion we are now suffering as the WASH
4ngton Monument Is to a match. At
that time we had no glorifled dole to
help us over. The woods in Iowa were
full OF wxld plums and very sour crab
apples. These guarded as precious
jewels. At breakfast If there wasn't
milk enough for every one TO have .
full glass my mother added water, and
never in Washington, where have lived
for some so years, have I ever tasted
champagne that tasted as good as that
watered milk. Everything was salvaged
and some use made of 1t. In Summer
we hung our butter and cream in the
we'll to keep it cool and sweet and in
the Winter we hung our eggs and other
things there to keep them from freezing.
We had an old oaken bucket and we
didn't know anything about the germs
that might have been in 1t and we prob
ably ate and digested millions Of them.
This was really the horse and wagon
age.
Now, some men on relief 60 to get 1t
In q car that looks like it just came out
of the varniSh pot. The depression OF
depression now is making beggars and
parasites of the American people. I go
downtown so seldom that there seem to
be new laws and regulations every time
I 60 down, so I take a taxi because Of
the cursed left hand turns, and because
no one cares for the one on foot. | call
the driver of the taxi Mr.. Operator"
and I tell him 1 am writing a taxi cate
4.ll l.; 30 tAn
thing he does not want TO see In print.
l start out with, Where were you born?"
The last one said. Virginia" Are you
a Democrat" Yes" Are you Glass
or Roosevelt Democrat He said. Il
am not for Roosevelt" I asked, Why
not?" He said, Il have just been home
to my rooming house TO get my mail and
there were seven relief checks and each
one can work as well as I. The Presi-
dent is making beggars of the American
people" One might add with truth,
also parasites.
People make such merit of doing with
out things their mothers never had, A
man had been out OF work for some
months and his rent was long overdue.
He finally got job at $500 a day and
his wife took the first money he received
and bought new dress at the best shop
in Washington. She said the wife Of
her husbands boss had a dress from that
shop and she was as good as she. One
wonders what our grandchildren will say
OF this spree OF spending and we make
such time about few little hardships.
What would Lincoln have thought about
our want of courage and our inability
to do without? I heard a woman say
the other day that she had to have what
she wanted, but she could do without
what she needed. The more one studies
about Lincoln the more one thinks that
Washington could not have done what
Lincoln did. Some time, ] believe, when
we have enought information we will
decide that Lincoln was the greatest man
the Republic has ever produced. WASH
ington lived to enjoy the glory of his
victories. Lincoln was shot down in the
middle of the greatest tragedy the Re-
public has yet known. II one will only
take into account what the people of
this country suffered at the time of Lin
coin we shall feel very small making
such time about the present depres-
sion. There is plenty for our needs It's
our wants that bring devastation. There
is enough food thrown in the garbage
cans of Brookland to feed all that need
it. If it could be salvaged while it were
fresh and good. 1t is this deplorable
waste that is mortgaging our future for
about 500 years.
CAROLINE HARRISON.