Show I To Stick a Feather in Y Your our C CI CaBy Ca I 1 By Herbert Kaufman aufman I HOW OW you hate a profiteer No epithet is too o i unclean greed which plunders the fateful hours o of public j I Money could never tempt you to compound th th di o olof lof of women and children stinting and scraping on allowan allowance e admit that and feather bolster would be the leas lea o 0 serving if you sophisticated or skimped any article needed a 3 I front And And as for or impeding th the conduct of the war that y u benefit your own own own concern concern perish perish the thought But you are a grafter none the less Perhaps your o 0 thousands seeking a place that belongs to o an abler bler man man- mana afar a far more fitted to render the particular service to wh which aspire ft You'd rob the country of superior judgment and skill I t I Ivance vance y your ur po A patriots patriot's sole interest would be i ithe s the work done Hed He'd Hed look for his bet better er and suggest his ap men ment t. t jb There'd be less waste and fewer bungles in our if a host of inexperienced and inept slickers had the ho honest hones s confess s temperamental and practical unsuitability for I dons theirs II m mOr Or maybe you belong to another pernicious group e empl pl with able bodied eager youngsters bent upon volunteering tempted to hold back by increased wages or promotion J L Lyou you tell a certain branch manager to wait his turn claiming the war would probably end in a few months and that he he I be wasting his chances and his time Didn't you ask another boy to defer enlistment un until n it iI were in better shape to let him go and then fatten that e week Ki envelope envelope envelope-a a rank bribe against the performance of duty duty- j I Youre You're the meanest of profiteers your profiteers your sort sort all all th I f dangerous and subtle because the law cant can't reach you M t u count tb the situation dampen enthusiasm deprive the na I 1 precious precious- intelligence and strength strength to to stick little feathery feathers n I caps and little tittle dollars in your tills i How about the epithets and tar and feathers i now now 1 1 does conscience say ab about ut them I Copyright 1918 by Herbert Kaufman Gr Great at Britain and all other rig |