Evening star., 1946-05-07
Letters to The Star
Argues Both Sides Are at Fault
In Coal Mining Business


Argues Both Sides Are at Fault
In Coal Mining Business
To the Editor of The Star;
From the information recently pub
lished about miners living conditions 1t
is easy to see that the Federal and
State governments have not done their
duty by their citizens of the mining
districts-or are likely to.
For over so years the voters of Amer
lea have done little to ameliorate con-
ditions by making and enforcing laws
through their elected officials. Now the
country is going to pay for its indiffer-
ence by going without comfort until
the mining industry settles its peren-
nial squabble.
Overindulgence in liquor appears to
be the main reason why q miner who
earns over $50 week and pays but IS
a week for housing, lives in squalor on
company property. When such men,
who earn more than did during most
Of my working life, do not do as well as
I, who contribute to charity instead of
asking it, they have themselves to
blame
While miners live in novels salesmen
build mansions out of profits, despite
their poor -mouthing. Some of the profits
could be used at the mines for bettering
conditions. don't like arbitrary Lew
ises, drunken miners or gouging opera
tors, and they don't like each other
but, Government agencies having failed
the miners and operators should get
together and make efforts for improve
ment instead of mutual destruction.
In wages the miners are comparable
to motormen and better paid than most
engineers, despite lack of book educa-
ton. Mines could and should be made
safer and cleaner, housing better,
drunkenness abolished through nonem-
ployment of the persistently ineficient
and reckless employees and q scale of
living set up comparable with the
money earned.
This, evidently, can come only by
worker and employer cooperation.
What If all other business behaved
like the mining business! Where would
this country be? And where will 1t soon
be, with England and Russia forging
ahead while We talk OF liberating and
feeding the world, and are estopped
from regular routines OF living for lack
of fuel? w. E. ALLEN.
More About Southern COOKING
To the Editor OF The Star:
with apologies to Ray H. Everett)
Uncle Zeke, old sour-looking, just don't
know our Southern cooking. All blowed
up with 'east-cake bread, only baked
beans In his head. Never heard of
cornbread sticks, lives on gastronomic
tricks; eats his pie for breakfast, WOW!
Needs seven stomachs like a COW.
Never saw a juicy yam. never ate a
Smithfield ham, Never tasted shad
delicious, greens and bacon, most nu-
tritious. When he's full of bony cod,
cannot even smile at God.
Beans may build long lean Yankee,
maybe Goldfish makes 'em cranky.
Way down South Is where the girls
wear the dimples, curves and curls;
queenly ways. so charming looking
all because Of Southern cooking!
ROSSEL EDW. MITCHELL.
To the Editor Of The Star:
We harken to dispeptic Zeke while
pannin, with his rusty squeak, fine
Southern grub-none better than! And
good for what ails any man. Then pity in
our bosom leaps for any one whose soul
so sleeps that he can't SAVIOR chicken
fried with grits and gravy on the side.
Or turnip green's and good corn pone
well seasoned with hawg jawbone, or
fapjacks doused with sorghum grand
"a luscious treat in any land.
Trouble is Zeke's never ct good grub
cooked right-well make a bet! For
If he did he'd yelp for more and chuck
his thinkers out the door. Now, II he'd
spend some time down South we'd have
him watering at the mouth, and then
return him, not so cranky, a sweeter,
South conditioned Yankee!
'Tis whispered, with authority Though
there be some who won't agree) that
one who eats such vittles prime can
whop three Yankees-any time!
HITCH o rASrY