The Ely miner., 1941-05-29

eggs. try goes tn
call
The barnyards hear it, one and all;
The message sweeps from east to
west:
mo longer, hen, your second best!''
A buzzer buzzes and it's done
A papers signed in Washington
Stenographers rush here and there
There's action in the very air;
Officials leap to telephones
The orders ring In solemn tones
The message flows from silver pens
A Proclamation to The Hens.
! In headlines big the news is played
"ALL POULTRY CALLED FOR
ALL-OUT AID"
The wires cross the nation sing,
| An ultimatum's on the wing
By horseback and by auto, too,
By radio and by canoe,
By every telegraphic loop
To every hennery and coop,
"Come, hen, your country calls to
| you
One egg is not enough! Give twoI"
The message whistles through the
trees
| To startle birds and busy bees;
It leaps across from farm to farm
And spreads Hen" Revere alarm,
Awake! Get up! The COINS toughl
| Get up there, hen, and do your
stuff"
The chicken houses rock and sway
To this one order, Lay, hen, layl"
The roosts vibrate to one word
'tScramI"
As they're abandoned on the lam
The nests they seem to snap and
creak
As orders reach an al-time peak!
The hens outside now scamper in,
| Their faces drawn a little thin;
We've laid one egg" say three or
four; ...-
The others answer War is war!"
Mayhap one suIks; she hears a
''Boo!"
And yell of "You appeaser you!"
Then looms some organizing hen
(From Layers Union Number 10) /;
"Arise!' !'-her cry is loud and clear,
Demand the right to bargain herel
Production speed is very nice,
But are we hens or are we mice?''
|
Then Washington by hens is stormed
And hencoop picket lines are
formed;
Hark! Overhead the transports dive,
The mediation boards arrive!
But lest this tale be far too long
| The hens are saved; they amt done
wrong;
They sign to do the best they can
But scrap the big production plan.
Then to their nests they quickly
scram
And give three cheers for Uncle
Sam,
Three lusty cheers (and shake a
leg)-
Three cheers, ah yes, but just one
egg!
ADOLFS PREROGATIVE
The Nazis emphasize that their
| terrible raids on London are in re-
prisal to teach London a lesson for
bombing Berlin. Hitler, you under
stand, alone has the right to bomb
big cities.
SPRING LURE
Now I HE me from war talk
To my garden In Norwalk;
Where the purple of crocus en-.
chants;
I'm obsessed with longing
| For my choicest belonging
Them mud-covered dungaree pants
my WIFE'S CHAPEAU'
I'd like to laugh at her new hat.
Instead, l tell her I adore it.
Because I just remembered that
I am the sucker paying for i'll
Lee A. Cavalier.
A waiter in Long Island cafe
has been arrested as a Gestapo
agent. He must be the one who al
ways growled when asked for Eng
ish mutton chops.
MOTORISTS DREAM
III buy an army tank some day
And caterpillar up Broadway
And then III snicker and III scofi
And dare some cab to cut me offl
Lee A Cavalier.
CAN YOU REMEMBER
Away back when a man who had
only had two years In college could
| figure his income tax?
We expect any day now that Hit
ler viii move Mt. Olympus to Berlin
and claim he is really Homer.
THE SURRENDER INEVITABLE
I watch my diet faithfully
And weigh each blessed calory;
Each week I visit my physician,
And confer with my dietician;
The system always works until
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