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Show MORE MEAT FOR THE AMATEUR FISHERMAN! The recent battle of deep sea fishermen fish-ermen for more ration points for meat found wide public sympathy. Nothing makes a man hungrier than fishing. And that goes for ordinary fishermen, fisher-men, too. Which prompted Elmer Twitchell, the famous river, inlet and lake angler, to come out strongly strong-ly today in favor of more grub for the amateur and semi-pro boys. "Have yon seen those lunches that are being put up these days for the individual small-time fisherman?" demanded Mr. Twitchell. "Not a calory in a carload!" "It's reached a 'point where it's almost impossible for a fisherman to get his bait into the water. It's snapped up in midair, not by a fish but by fellow fishermen!" he added. "Late last autumn," Elmer continued, con-tinued, "the box lunches provided anglers was so lacking in nourishment nourish-ment that some fishermen would leap out of a boat and take any bait a fish would take. In fact, when the season ended they were taking artificial arti-ficial lures. "I was on a fairly crowded lake casting for bass in October. 1 was using a big wooden plug with a red head and white stripes. On my first cast two fishermen dove for it!" Elmer insisted that in another instance in-stance he was using a metal spinner, spin-ner, and as it went by the end of a dock a fellow angler made two strikes at it. "Amateur anglers, arisel" demanded de-manded Mr. Twitchell. "The professional pro-fessional fisherman ain getting a much tougher break than we are. What does the wife put in her husband's hus-band's lunch when he goes fishing these days? A jelly sandwich, six animal crackers, a stale doughnut and a little cold coffee! . "You can't fish an hour anywhere without getting hungry enough to eat a horse. That's why farmers never pasture a horse near a trout stream or bass lake. "In normal times a man setting out for, a day's fishing toted along enough grub to sustain life in a normal nor-mal adult for six weeks. Boy, what sandwiches! Roast beef, lamb, corned beef, pork and what have you! That's what made fishing enjoyable. en-joyable. The average fisherman didn't care half as much for fishing as he did for enjoying a heavy meal or two without bothering about table manners." Elmer began getting up a petition peti-tion to OPA at once. "Spring is here and the amateur angler is in a bad way," he said. "Unless he gets a little substantial food in that lunch-box lunch-box he will be grabbing feather lures!" PRIVATE PURKEY WANTS A G.I. AT THE PEACE TABLE Dear Harriet: Like I told you some time ago I am working with my pals on a sort of League of G.I. Peace Kibitzers and the thing is getting into shape fast. Of course Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin is handling things okay now at places like Yalta, but is all just expressing intensions and ideas. When the war ends and the peace delegates begin to huddle the real fighting will start and nothing will help to make them stick to their ob-jecktives ob-jecktives like maybe some G.I.s at the peace tables. I don't see why there should be any opposition to G.I. representation in the peace. If there had been a free for all battle with gangsters in your street and you had to put up a tough fight would anybody tell you to scram under the bed and keep your big mouth shut while the whole question of further trouble was handled han-dled by a group of well-dressed strangers who had cleaner collars and better table manners? So when a war ends what Is about Insisting that the G.I.s who has been getting their noggins knocked off all through it just drop everything, put a gag in their mouths and never speak above a whisper while the whole question whether they will have to do it over again is decided by professional peacemakers who never slept in a hole full of ice-water, ice-water, et their meals in a snowdrift or swum every river in Africa and Europe? Optimism ("All eating and drinking places will be forced by OPA to display posters giving the ceiling price on beers and liquors." News item.) i i i Little posters on the wall ; You'll quote prices per highball i So a man will get a feeling Bar-rooms know about a ceiling. J ' They will quote the price of beers, ' Ales and cocktails, it appears, j So a man fair play will get When he's drinking wanna bet? |