The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-05-08
THE UNIONIZED MILK
INDUSTRY

THE UNlUNAZED MALA
INDUSTRY
John l.. Lewis is now trying to
unionize the milk industry through
out the country. If he succeeds
every bottle of milk delivered will
have union label certifying that
there has been no non-union contact
from the COW pasture to the door
step.
The idea is to have milk from
union farms handled by union dairy
hands and delivered by union milk
men. The new slogan may be milk
From Union Cows, Contented or
Not!"
We can imagine a union cosu, chewing
It's uniols- cud IN a union meadow, stUisii-
ing a unionized tail and LOWING in tones
approved by the Musicians Union.
We can picture union clover, union
brooks, union hillsides and union
hay.
The curfew tolls the knell OF parting
day,
The lowing herd winds slowly Ger
the lea,
The plowman homeward plods his
weary way
All unionized and happy as can be.
Whoever thought the cowbarn
would some day become a closed
shop.
What would grandpa have thought
If somebody had predicted that the
walking delegate would wind slowly
DER the lea, that the COW would
Jump over the moon only if it had
union permit and that the milk
maids answer to MAY ! 60 with
YOU would have been "Not unless
you are member of the union in
good standing, mister"
Somehow we find it hard to gaze
over the rolling country these spring
days and take in the bucolic scene
without feeling that, although he is
not there in person, the spirit-form
of John L. Lewis fits through the
meadows, looks disapprovingly on
the gusto of the rushing brook and,
welding an invisible rubber stamp,
puts an "Okay j. L. L." on the flank
of every moody.
Whispering into the ear OF every
COW the wonders of the five-day week
and warning the bull to take orders
only from its local board.
To revise Anne Emile Poulsson's
old verse:
At five o'clock he milks the COW,
The busy farmers man.
At six o'clock the strains the milk
And pours it in the can.
At seven there's clamor and
A merry little row,
It's found the cow that gave the
milk
Was not union COW.
The busy farmers man is called
With him it goes quite hard;
It's charged that when he strained
the milk
He lacked a union card.
At eight o'clock John L. appears,
A frown upon his pan
And there will be no milk today
TWAS NOT A UNION CAN!
"I'm short of food but long on
stair carpet and paper treads,
wheelbarrow, snath, flag s by So, IL
foot staff, hose, iron washtub, van
ner, crowbar, jigsaw puzzles, dust
mop and kitchen utensils. A609. p
Yankee Magazine.
And man must live.
YOU'LL FIND OUT
Little grains Of sugar,
Little ration books
Tend to cramp the style Of
Many pastry cooks.
One-half pound of sugar per per-
son per week will be the new fed
eral sugar ration. "But can't
wait a week! / use it every day."
complains Ina Dodo.
The race tracks OF america sOiu donate
TOO million dollars to army and navy re-
lief funds this year. The chart scriser
sCould perhaps describe the beIased deci.
sion husly: sSlow TO get of, appeared
out of il at first turn, responded 70 urging
in stretch and came through under hard
driUe."
Mahatma Gandhi must be one
man who is moved somewhat un-
usually by the prospect Of losing his
shirt.
Elmer Twitchell, the old horseshoe
pitcher and chess champion, is
quite sore. He says Mr.. McNutt
abolished those bureaus before he
got his games co-ordinated.