Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 241, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1918 — WON’T MIX WITH SLACKERS [ARTICLE]

WON’T MIX WITH SLACKERS

Their Presence in Prison Arouses Patriotic Wrath of Burglars and Felons. New York. —Two hundred suspected slackers, caught in the greatest man bunt tn the history of Gotham, rolled, tossed, groaned and cursed during the first night of their incarceration in the Tombs. They also aroused the patriotic wrath of other prisoners, such as burglars and felons, drunks and dope fiends. •‘Can you beat it?" whined one oldtimer, up for cracking a safe. “How do them guys get that way? Take it from me, I don’t want to be mixed up with that slacker bunch.” And then, as though drawing the final line of classification, the oldtimer shouted to a husky “conscientious objector”: “They haln’t no cooties in here, bo. If yuh can’t face dese bars and tha music, how yuh goin’ to face tha Huns?”