The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-07-27
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hutchet Out
The Truth
Q "LET THEM EAT CAKE"
. BLOOD AND REVOLUTION
. ON THE SHORT END
. PICTURESQUE MILL
VILLAGES"

'Let them eat cake" prologued the
style in blood and revolution.
To this day Louis can't figure out
why the populace bristled at so noble
an allowance.
After all Louis knew the people
were stupid. Knew it from intro
| spection.
They couldn't write. So he did not
have to be careful of the handwriting
on the wall. That's where the long
departed Nebuchadnezzar slipped up.
King Louis was no poking medico.
How should he know that the scum
of France was allergic to cake?
And why should that start natl
onal wave of neck shaves-much too
short and close. And when they spill
ed blue blood-that was drawing the
color line too close.
x X X
Rolling heads and receding decades
haven't changed Louis bit. Louis has
just multiplied and become internati-
onal. International in a sense. He
shows strong preference for our own
country, likes the climate on Capitol
Hill at Washington.
Not even doubters of transmigration
would suffer eyestrain spotting Louis
on the Hill.
Louis has gone little democratic.
You would never know that he was a
Frenchman what with sporting the
names OF Cox and Barden and scores
of others.
He is still a little leary of the
"cake" allowance. Memories connect
ed with that word still linger on. Sub
stituting instead "fat back" and
"pone." Sly rascal Louis. He knows
the real southerner will fight in de-
Tense Of those words.
X X X
Cox of Georgia, Barden of North
Carolina, ct alteri, alias Louis, are on
their toes this year.
They were on the short end of
fast one last year. That wage-foor
and hour-ceiling business.
They warned Congress. 25 cents an
hour was too much. People were not
used to that. Would not know what
to do with it if they had it. And the
hours-44 work hours. That's paving
the road to damnation with 124 leisure
hours week.
Give people 25 cents or more an
hour and they might then go out and
buy real meat instead of fat back.
If they start buying and eating real
food, what is going to happen to the
snuff industry?
Who knows, they might even put
real wallpaper on the walls and tear
down the quaint advertisements that
have been pasted up in their homes to
keep out the southern zephyrs.
Why they might even want better
homes. Then, what will happen to the
picturesque mill villages" of the
south?
If they got enough money they
might even get radios. That must
never be the wholesale infection of the
new Deal on the airways.
25 cents an hour! A Yankee plot to
destroy the South!
X X X
Representative Cox showed surprise
that the President might veto the
weakening Barden amendments to the
wage-hour act.
Sad blows to our knights of south
ern chivalry who is giving his all to
stabilize corn pone and ricketts,.
There is always the chance of a
compromise.
Cox has got that all worked out.
| Agree with the President. There is al
ways the danger Of that Internal fire.
side chat.
Agree that maybe wholesale pro-
cessing of agricultural products should
fall within the reach of the act-but
in the interests of economy "no more
appropriations for the enforcement of
the act"
That would set everything right.
That the act would be enforced, there
is the solemn word of promise-Cox
and the employers promise.
NN7T GECTHDN TENPCEn