The Washington Herald, Washington DC, January 31, 1918

Although I agree with the premise, I honestly think that just a little coal won't do harm. But as I said. I do agree with having her work for it.

I read a story 20 years or so ago, I think it was New York or Phillidelphia, may be a bit off in the memory. It was about a lady during the great depression that was arrested for stealing a loaf of bread to feed her children. The judge told the other defendants , that were in the court on misdemeanor charges, that their cases would be dropped if they gave the woman a dollar each. The baker that she had taken the bread from had pitch in to. If I remember correctly , she got around 37 bucks. A fairly large sum of money in the 1930s. Wish I remembered the story better, hope it was true. It might have been in Readers Diegst magazine.

Since I was called out the other day: this meme isn’t level