Show I LETTE LETTERS S TO THE EDITOR i The Telegram welcomes letters for far thi this department Owing to I limitations they must be to words and mu must t be on subjects I of general of-general Communications unaccompanied by writers writer's name namo and anc I address will wiil not he 10 o considered This is to show good faith will not be ed if lf f the tho writer IH CL requests The Telegram The Tha n-m. n I do does not noi t assume responsibility f for fop r any opinion expressed in m this department f nor for foi the accuracy of an any 6 L nor or for th the tho of V return m K manuscripts sub cub Address all communications to Tn Th to Editor r. r Letter Letters Lotters must bo bi written only on one ono side aids of cf- the paper Three Cent Meals 1 I Arouses Arouses' Ire Editor Telegram The following from the Wednesday edition of ot your worthy paper is 15 I believe descrying of ot some comment County prisoners can be fed red for 3 cents a meal Commissioner W Yo I H. H said today Now that sounds so much Hk a Joke that one one is tempted to answer Alright Alright Al AI right light Ill I'll bite how can he feed em on 3 cents a meal The monstrous thing about the statement is however that the tho estimable gentleman appears to tobe tobe tobe be ly sincere and has already taken steps to put his laudable plan into operation J Three cents a meal What r vIsions of ot delicious dinners and suppers suppers suppers sup sup- pers those these simple words must conjure conjure conjure con con- jure forth in Jn the minds of ot the enraptured enraptured enraptured prisoners prisoners' It almost staggers the mind of ot man to even comprehend such munificence In Imagination I Ican Ican can see those fortunate men whoso whose good fairy has baa perhaps secured them thema a place at the crowded but festive board as they rise from surfeiting themselves on the tho untold gastronomic delights which a a. princely 3 cents will provide And then sir sir think what a terrific blow this will wUl be to the already overburdened over over- burdened taxpayer especially when he he I realizes that ho will have ha to foot toot the I bills to build new Jails to I date the rush when the glorious I news I reaches the outside world Can an j you ou not I see the long lines of ot applicants for tor or admission admission admission ad ad- mission to the sacred precincts when I learn that such they stupendous sums I Iare are to be lavished on the inmates Inmate fox for mere food tood alone Soup SouP from from the bone of ot contention doubtless Fish Fish tho tho t I I I suckers that got caught Garbage au natural Roast Roast lame lame crutches duck with p po po- 0 cabbage heads Poor prunes pie can cards Is etc corn cobs on the ho hoot hoof of I am sure that th St. St DevIne beneficent and I his is ba bard band d of I who vho haVe their ministering ang angels sis state bright abodes at t the he prison and who have cus d Of or been s ac ac- ac pampering their guests will nh weep stead tears of ot bitter anguish that I In n- n of their crude efforts toward alleviating al al- al the lot of the tho unfortunate tto victims of our social been their system it had not tot more blessed privilege to be the first to put into effect the Inde inde- In Ic- Ic charms of cen 3 meals Mr cr said tho that he was of ot same frame of ot mind and that had he been two years a ago go commissioner let then he would have moved for tor the identical change His is not of ot a frame mind but I low mind with a modern hardwood concrete bungalow bungalow bunga bunga- floors open plumbing and everything I r am quite sure though that in spite of ot such seeming extravagance Mr main m thought was econom economy He lIe probably pro pro- 1 bably thought that the prisoners would I get so BO thin from eating cent 3 meals that they would become invisible and nish then It would not be necessary to furI fur fur- furnish I I. I I think them of the with any clothing Just tremendous dear saving to the I i taxpayer from this source Let j I us thank our stars that we have a a. I I sight commissioner blessed with such fore fore- In grateful acknowledgement of ot tho the inestimable services rendered by Mr to a a. suffering long I T public therefore propose that he be given a a. double allowance and be required d to spend pend the entire C cents for food tood Yours for economy econom M M. P P. BALES 63 Third avenue |