Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 306, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1911 — The Plumber Worms Turn [ARTICLE]

The Plumber Worms Turn

Propose to Bring Suit Owing to Assertions in Begbie’s New Book. London. —At a meeting of the Institute of Plumbers held the other day exception was taken to the statements regarding plumbers made by Harold Begbte Iff his latest book. In a chapter headed “The Plumber.” according to a delegate at the meeting. Mr. Begble said that the plumbing trade was the worst from the moral point of view, that there was no bigger set of thieves than those of the plumbing trade, that he did not know why it was. but plumbers appeared not to be able to help It-

He would sooner have a burglar ta the house than a plumber. Farther, if these were, “rum” things to say about the whole trade, they were nevertheless true. The meeting, ta solemn conclave, decided that plumber* were tired oi being the butt of comic papers, and a resolution was passed ordering legal opinion be obtained as to the chance of winning a libel suit against Mr. Begbie as a warning to others. In real life we don’t get the chance to rehearse the big sttuatioas —hot the rules of the game permit ns to fate the lines!—Chicago Journal.