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Show The Poor White. A congressman, praising America's marvelous war production, said the other day: "Our war work is going to be so splendid that it will make other countries coun-tries seem like poor whites beside us. "You know the poor white story'.' It's a story about a man in a Mississippi Missis-sippi village who squatted down on his porch at seven o'clock in the morning and sat hour aftr hour motionless except for the steady movement of his ; jaws chewing niggerhead. "Finally his wife came to t lie door ! and said, in a despairing-kind of voice: "'Ain't ye goin' to work today?' " 'Nope,' said the man. " 'Why not?' she whined. " 'Ain't got time.' " |