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...crawled to the hearth. She sat on her haunches before the blazing pine-knots, shivering and whining. After a while the girl spoke to the dog and the animal slunk away from the warmth of the fire and lay down again beside the two babies. The infants cuddled against the warmth of the dog's flanks, searching tearfully for the dry teats...
...last week a vast stretch of the South was the scene of humanity hit bottom. No statistics could picture the pallid acres from Georgia to Arkansas, pocked with the burnt stumps of slash pine, gully-gutted, unfertilized; where the whitewash peeled from treeless shacks; where hatchet-faced tenants were not even able to get the three M's-Meal, Molasses and Meat-a diet that nourishes pellagra...
...crushing tyranny of the capitalist system. Grandfather Berger, an old Marxist, would not be compelled to jump off the roof in despair. Daughter Hennie would not have to marry a simpleton after Moe Axelrod, the embittered disabled veteran, gives her a baby. Son Ralph would not have to pine for the sweetheart and sport shoes he cannot possess on his $16-a-week salary...
...JOHN J. CROWLEY Santa Rosa Church Lone Pine. Calif...
...before Lincoln was assassinated, he first worked in his Norwegian father's planing mill. Learning the carpenter's trade, Son Carl in his early 20's took to the road, drifted to Omaha, San Francisco, Seattle, where he worked until the 1889 fire nearly erased that pine-built town...