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r-r 'hm "m DAILY COMMENT ON PEOPLE AND THINGS Probably the department stores laugh at the 10-hour day for women because they think the newspapers that accept their Advertising won't tell on them. However, in Oscar Nelson the peo ple appear to have a state factory in spector who isn't running to the newspaper offices for orders. Co to it, Oscar; make the big fel lows obey the law as well as the little ones. The law wouldn't amount to a tin ker's dam if we didn't have officers with determination to enforce it. The offer of ihe 'phone trust to dis solve itself doesn't alter the argu ment in favor of government owner ship of 'phones. The chances are the trust would have gone on creating an absolute monopoly if its owners hadn't con cluded that Woodrow's jaw was set and he meant business. Some jaw that man Wilson wears on the lower end of his face all right. He gave the Wall street bankers the licking of their lives when he rammed the currency bill through the senate, without turning control of the nation's money over to Wall street. Judge Scully says the light way in which girls and men regard marriage has much to do with the appearance of women in courts. Gee whiz, judge, the trouble goes deeper than that. Our industrial system keeps wages so low that too many young men fteel they can't afford to get married. Then the girls have to go to work in stores, factories and offices to sup port themselves, because fathers don't get enough to support them at home. Human instinct and impulse does the rest. Preachers can preach morality un til they are red in the face and their suspenders burst, but it doesn't sink very xleep into minds that are -wor ried sick with the breat-and-butter problem. Spiritual consolation is a great thing, but it doesn't rest as well on an empty stomach as something to eat. Many of our social problems would work out all right if it were easier for the average man to support a family decently. Mrs. Josephine T. Bowen hit it off right when she said: "When you scratch the social question, you uncover the question of industrial conditions and wages." According to her figures 29 per cent of the girls in the clothing trade, 13 per cent in the department stores, 17 per cent in box factories, 27 per cent in candy factories and 29 per cent at the stockyards receive less than $5 a week. And it has been said the lowest a girl can live on in Chicago is $8 a week. Very likely many of the men who get rich paying such wages and de stroying human souls are liberal con tributors to their churches. Maybe some day we will have Christianity in all the churches that will make it consistent for employers and employes to worship side by side. o o . NO TEETOTALLER A keen temperance advocate was one night addressing a public meet ing on his pet subject. "I should like," he declared, "to take every bottle of wine and every bottle of beer and every bottle of spirits and sink them all to the bot tom of the sea." A man at the back of the hall jumped up excitedly, shouting, "Hear, hear! Hear, hear! Hear, hear!" The lecturer paused in his remarks to beam delighted approval on the in terrupter. "Ah, my friend," he said, "I can see you are a good teetotaller." No, sir; I'm a diver," said the man.