The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-12
BIGGER AND BETTER SLICES
OF BACON


A bill has been introduced in the Ten
neSsee Legislature to fix the size of slices
of bacon served to patrons of hotels, res
taurants, boarding houses and all places
where food is served to the public.
That is great stuff. 1t is certainly re-
form movement that is moving in the right
direction and is calculated to reform in a
big way. This scheme will exactly fit into
the nationwide program for economic
planning" Enthusiasm for control must
be running at nigh tide among Tennessee
legislators.
This scheme measures up right along
with the cOuntry'S security program,
also. If this law is enacted it is certain
that bacon eaters in public places in the
Volunteer State will be made Secure" in
their right to order bacon and to have 1t
served in slices that meet legal require
ments And, of course, it is clear that Ten
nesseeans alone are not the only Ameri-
cans entitled to the benefits of hog plan
ming and bacon security. If this law is Ell
acted in Tennessee and held by the courts
to be constitutional, its vast benefits must
be extended to all the States.
In fact, it is hard to understand how the
regulators in Washington overlooked bet
equal to this Tennessee proposal. 1t should
have been cooked up in the first place by
federal experts - Lawyers COrcoran and
Cohen, for eXample-and its widespread
benefits made available at once for the en-
tire nation.
Perhaps Washington'S lack of interest IN
the proposal however, is due to the fact
that so far no citizen has figured out a
plan for attaching good, stiff federal tax
10 a scheme for bacon slice control. 1t
would take that to make it attractive and
acceptable to new dealers everywhere.
If a plan can be devised, and law en-
acted, which will control the size OF bacon
slices and at the same time make possible
the levying of heavy tax to pay the saIa-
ries of thousands of bacon measuring eX-
perts. shoppers to watch places where hog
meat is sold and served by the slice, and
enforce Control" regulations, it is at once
evident that the scheme has strong APP
peal. If in addition to dealing blow to
unemployment by placing additional thou
sands on government payrolls, some plan
can be devised for placing several strong
voting groups of citizens on hog "relle1
or for the introduction of a system OF bacon
slice boondoggling, the appeal OF the plan
will be greatly strengthened-ln fact II
will become practically irresistible.
However, it will never do to contine the
benefits of the bacon slice economy to one
State. The vast benefits of this social plan
ming must be made available to everyone
Of the 4S States and the gospel OF bigger
and better slices of bacon must be preached
in every backward and unenlightened COM
munity in the nation.
Therefore, steps should be taken at once
70 have the bacon slice movement taken
over by the Washington administration No
Good Tennessee new dealer would OBJECT
70 having the blessings of this great dis,
covery in political economy transferred
from the Volunteer State and made par'
of orr interminable scheme of national
Manning for porkers, not to mention the
custodians of the national pork barrels
Put If This idea originated with some be-
,,;obted Tennessee Republican. that party
NAV undertake to have it copyrighted and
confined to the land of T. V. A, thus de
nriying the nation of one of the creates
discoveries of the ages - to-wit, the fac
that bacon slices can be made thick ane
iuicy. instead of anemic and tough, by Ell,