The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-11-27
Pepper EXPLAINS INITIATION

Don't bother me now, son, m
too busy"
"How long will you be busy, pop
peri"
"I'll always be too busy when any
body wants me to explain imitation"
Voice from Mother-"Aw, go
on and help Junior out! He's
got to write a school essay.~
"Well, ahem, sonny, it's like this,
ahem initiation means condi-
ton under which the dollar will be
worth less.
"But it will still be dollar, WOMB
it,"
eyes. A dollar bill will still be
dollar bill, but it won't be the dol
lar that we used to know. What I
mean is that while a dollar may
still be a dollar, strictly speaking,
it's value as dollar will not be the
same value as it would have been if
there had been no change in values
ahem Is that quite clear
to your"
"Ne. Is it to your"
"No. Let's try it a different way.
Let us take meat for example. Take
a $100 bill. Now let us assume that
this $500 will buy stack of steaks
piled up As feet in the air. Got
that?"
"Forty-five dollars will buy
100 steaks piled up how high,
popper?"
'No. Now, take your time.
We've got our steaks piled up
as feet. And right now we can
buy them for the 500 BILL"
''What hundred dollar bill,
popper?"
"Shush! Now, then, comes in
fation What happens?"
"That's what I'm asking, pop
PERI"
"Well, we suddenly look around
and find that while the steak pile is
still As feet high the 500 bill has
shrunk down to $32.79."
"Huh?"
"No, that's wrong. Let's make
it easier. The 500 bill is still o. K.
but the steaks have changed. In
fact, the pile is now only 20 feet
high. See?"
SIS that in regular steak or ham,
burger, popper?"
"Omigosh! Any steak. don't
even have to use steak in this story.
I could use eggs or liver or even
Goldfish, cakes. I could make it just
as clear if / used suit of clothes,
a new tie, pair of shoes or a BIZ
cycle"
"Let's do it with Goldfish cakes
and bicycles, pepper"
"Why!!!"
''It'n be more fun"
Voice from Mother-"Gee, Clin-
ton, I don't think you're explaining
it to Junior very simply.")
every well. Now lssen, son. Let
us take house paint. Today SIS will
get me enough paint to paint our
garage two coats"
1--WE haven't any garage"
'tDon't interrupt. Let's paint 1t,
anyhow. Comes imitation, and what
happens if we want to paint it a
year from now? Twenty-Five dollars
will only buy enough to paint three
sides, and only one coat. Do you
see what happens?"
eyes. We write Mr.. Roosevelt
and he paints the other side at
government expense, pepper.
But what CAUSES infation?"
''Awah-h-h!"
THE Swiftly
Beside the empty used car mart
The viLlage smithy stands;
The smith is mighty glad of heart,
For business still expands.
The busy forge he engineers
Is, like his heart. agLoso--
This man has matted ffty years
To say, II told you SOL"
Gerald Raftery in the N. Y. Times.
He hears a motor, and its noise
Comes to him from afar;
lit passes and he says, 'Look, boys,
| It is a motorcar!"
Then once again his sledge he
swings
And says, as well he may,
81 knew when / first saw them
things
They wasn't here to stay!"
"High-heeled shoes are to be dis
continued for the duration to save
leather News item.
Wanna bet?
Merrill Chilcote says there can't be
any manpo,Der shortage. "Au those
fellows sUh0 haze been standing around
excavations matching foundations for
nesO buildings laid can't be icorkins
indoors" he says.
THE HOARDER AT HOME
Our tables getting bare, you bet,
Rsx.c,.~h rood food dem MD