The town council and the newspapers have opened elections in behalf of last week’s slaughter. The municipality headed the list with $125,000 and has established temporary refugees and food kitchens. The losses total many millions and no less than 800 families are ruined. Some wealthy merchants have been reduced to poverty. Railroad traffic is now entirely restored. The details of last week’s massacre at Odessa are gradually leaking and only serve to add to the horrors. It appears that the soldiers ruthlessly slaughtered the defenders of the Jewish houses. In one case 46 railway workmen who were defending Jews on Frokhorovskaia street were shot.

50 Years Ago, 1955

This is the month for loyal citizens to celebrate (a) National Cheese Shopper’s Month and (b) National Baked-in-Butter Turkey Time. The gastronomic doubleheader has a single purpose:

To tease us into using more dairy products, and incidentally whittle away at this nation’s vexing dairy surpluses. A fellow over at the Agriculture Department dropped by to make an additional point.

“Did you know,” he asked, “that if each of us would drink three extra glasses of milk each week we’d have the dairy surplus problem pretty well licked?”

Without waiting for an answer, he had another question:

“What country leads the world in the consumption of milk products?” That turned out to be a tough one. For it’s a country renowned, in fiction at least, for its pubs and its whiskey. Good old Ireland is in first place.

25 Years ago, 1980

The nation’s banks Thursday raised their prime lending rates by one full percentage point to 15.5 percent in the biggest one-day increase in more than a year. The jump came as no surprise to Wall Street, where analysts attributed the increase to the banks’ rising cost of funds.

Maine residents legally can hunt for deer statewide. The same privilege will extend to all licensed hunters next Monday.