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mmmammmmmmmmmmm ll l M Ml I II H II Ill l I II II I I II . -TTyrr.-r-i-w-w -t y-rm r-i.' r.r T '.T-'M'w,r r ay" "" fm'twZ:- -h - T-rm-TK-iw- - T - -,? ;-s t -- i"m- - '- we band together as, a nation and cry: "Death from preventable dis eases must be stopped!" THE DAY BOOK "N. D. COCHRAN EDITOR AND PUBLISHER, BOO SO. PEORIA ST. CHICAGO, ILL. Telephones Clrcnlatlom, Htare 3838 SUBSCRIPTION By Carrier In Chicago. 30 centi a Month. By Man, United Statei and Canada. JJ.oe a Year. Entered as sccond-clasi matter April XI, 1914, at the postoltic at Chicago, 111, under the Act of March 3, U7I. SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND VIC TIMS OF PEACE. We are stunned with grief and horror when we stop to think of the millions who are dy ing on the battlefields in Europe. It is so cruelly and wantonly need less we cry out It is tragic also that of a million and a half men, women and children who die yearly in the United States 600,000 die needlessly. First of all, a quarter of a million-, infants are taken J)y death before they round out the first year of life. Carried off without even the fighting chance for life that the babes and war orphans of Europe have. Next, the children who escaped the perils of infancy are exposed to the attack of such communicable and preventable diseases as diphthe ria, scarlet fever, measles and whooping cough.' They, too, die be cause they are not given a fighting chance. Then an army of adults meet the enemies, typhoid ever and tubercu losis, and thousands of them die, right here in our own "enlightened" country through carelessness and Ig norance. Isn't it time we of America mobil ized effectively for Public Health? We cry: "War must be stopped in tne name 01 Humanity. HOW WE SPEND OUR MONEY. Some kind of an inquiry Is bound to be started in congress this win ter, the purpose being to find out how the government came to be sad dled with a postoffice site under six feet of water in the city of Seattle. The central figure of the inquiry is likely to be Congressman Wm. E. Humphrey of that city. The sec'y of the treasury on his western trip did some viewing of postoffice sites, but when he came to view the one in Seattle, not having a boat he had to take a long distance view of it. The site was under, six feet of water, the overflow of Elliott bay, and it was surrounded by a lovely growth of cattails. The United States bought this site during the Taf t administra tion, while Humphrey was congress man for this particular postal dis trict, and it was presumably on Con gressman Humphrey's recommenda tion as well as that of a site inspector (who is now separated from the service) that the site was purchased for $169,500. Anybody who will give Uncle Sam half this sum for the bog now will get a warm hand at Ass't Sec'y Newton's office. SHORT ONES If every individual were taken at his own valuation, hat concerns would have to be remodeled into halo factories. The man who remains a bachelor sooner or later realizes he has made a mistake. So does the felow who marries. Laugh and the world, laughs with you; sulk, and the world laughs at you. Sarah Bernhardt sends word from Prance that she sails for America in Tfconofnliot "nnufprnlrloH o-nrl -ii-ti .kV,,AUl, UUTA4U1.XVU l daunted." Although Sarah has lost In the name of humanity why don't 1-a leg, you can't stump her. jjfelfrfl! faJuhfefc