The Evening Independent from Massillon, Ohio • Page 11

THURSDAY, AUG. 12, 1948 EVENING INDEPENDENT. MASSILLON. OHIO ELEVEN FATE'S HEAVY THUMB WEIGHTS BUTCHER'S SCALE FemalesStageMeat Price Rebellion By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK, butcher is at bay. This is a new spectacle in our civilization, and well may be the first vindication of Oswald Spengler's prediction of the collapse of the western world.

Harried by high prices and protesting housewives, the man at the meat block no longer can be sure on which side his pork chop is buttered. The lone man with the cleaver doesn't know whom to cleave his irate' female customers or the item wholesaler who has forced bis costs up above the usual pattern that brings in a profit. If) THEY CAN talk all they want to about the normal law of, supply demand, but gal who fixes the family getting mad. And lor the first time in our lifetime the man in ihe white apron, behind the meat jounler is on the defensive. Supply or no supply, the lady of ihe house is demanding lower prices.

She wants to bring home the bacon, but she wants it on her terms. And more and more she is raising that buyers' get what she wants for the money she has to spend. The neighborhood butcher, long the arbiter of customer menus, nov. finds he has no friend at all. House wives who courted his favor anc brought him presents in wartime have finally reached the point 01 rebellion.

The butcher would like to rebe there is no way he can Worn out with the beefing ovei inflation, he would like to take i on the lano. but all he can do is stand there patiently and live" and and loin. IT ISN'T MEET that this once proud figure should bear all the onus of family budgetary problems. It's a rough situation for him. inyway you slice it.

And he veals it as much as you do. Henry Reed. The next meeting Nobody really loves a butcher. He lives always in an arena of tlnubt. I learned this years ago in my golden I served us an apprentice meat cutter.

It ivas a period of depression and we Today's Needlecraft ormulated a rare hamburger at hree pounds for a quarter. Then he clientele accepted the price )ut questioned the hamburger. To day they accept the hamburger but question the price. Having in my lifetime been on join sides the counter, 1 realize there is no permanent answei the problem of buying and sell ing meat. In bad times, when rounc steak goes begging at 29 cents a pound, the butcher yearns to throw a slab in the faces of his finicky customers.

In good times he can' afford to. Meat is money then. FORLORN and forsaken behind his well-slocked display case, th butcher now faces a dubious future His usual careful camaradieri with the housewife is dissipating in a fog of ill will and soarin rices. In a court fuss here Ihe other day a customer accused a butcher belaboring him with an iron hair. The butcher said, well, the Customer had grabbed up at 30- pound bus after all.

Much is at civil-, zation as we have known it. Maybe he solution is for everyone to turn vegetarian. Then who would carrot all? to serve the rest of the year for at least two weeks. Judge Birrell is on vacation. Assistant Prosecutor William M.

McLaid will act as prosecutor until a successor is named. The democratic central committee will pick a candidate for Reagen's place on the ballot at a meeting Friday night. Reagen died of a heart attack Saturday. Indicted For Murder COLUMBUS. Mrs.

Virginia Pearson, a 29-year-old divorcee, was under a second-degree murder indictment Wednesday, charged with slaying a former deputy sheriff. Mrs. Pearson, a mother two children, told police that Frank V. Martin, 48, an automobile salesman, was shot accidentally last June they struggled for possession of a gun in her home. DUCK-KILLING DOGS SOUGHT Warden Carl Brugger is seeking dogs which killed more than 80 ducks and injured many more at Lyle Sawyer duck farm near here.

To Name Successor WARREN. Common Pleas Judges Lynn B. Griffith and G. H. Birrell will not name a successor to Prosecutor Paul J.

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