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'V'VfWf V"T 'I II M ') J .1 THE DAY BOOK! N. D. COCHRAN EDITOR A!ND PUBLISHER. sea s. PEonix st. ciiicaco, ili. Telenhanet Editorial. Monroe 363 J KlKfJUUIlKH drcutlon, Monroe 3&W SUBSCRIPTION By Carrier in Chi cago, 30 cents a Month. By Mall. United States and Canada, $3.00 a Yoar. Entered as second-class matter April 21, 1914, at the postofflce at Chicago. 111., under the Act of March 3, 187?. POOR TRIB. It's mighty tough on the poor old Tnb having the kaiser interne the Trib's star photog rapher, Weigle. Why don't Maje McCormick put on his war paint and uniform ana dictate an ultimatum to Germany? Wouldn't that scare the kaiser to death, though? THE PREPAREDNESS PARADE. In the Manufacturer's News, John M. Glenn says the preparedness .pafi rade should be general, manufac turers and their employes, merchants and their salesmen and women, pro fessional men and their clerks all should march. We all believe in pre paredness preparedness for war, for peace, for old age and the hereafter. Let us all boost for the parade." . If that's what the bosses want they went about it in the wrong way. A general committee was selected to boss the job, and not a single repre sentative of the employes, salesmen and clerks was asked to act upon it The bankers, manufacturers and other big business men just natural ly concluded that they were the whole works and would run the whole, show. But if preparedness finally re sulted in war the jrierks, salesmen and other employes would have to shoulder the guns and do -the fight ing. If the working class is to be interested-in the preparedness propagan-, da the plan will have to be democrat ic enough to give some voice in the proceedings to the cannon fodder, instead of turning all the manage ment over to the men who will send substitutes if ;war breaks but RUBLEE AND BRANDEIS. Spe cial Privilege appears to have a strangle-hold on both old parties in the senate. It defeated the only live one on Federal Trade commission, and managed to make 13 standpat, reactionary Democrats vote against the confirmation of George Rublee. The same influence may be able to keep Louis Brandeis off the supreme court bench. Pending confirmation Rublee Tias beeni an acting member of the com mission and has tried to carry out the original purpose of the law, which was to curtail brutalities of the competitive system and make trade freer for the weaker man. Commissioners Hurley and Daviee, as Gilson Gardner puts it, "are more interested in using the commission to secure-in the U. S. the German cartel plan for co-operation among manu facturers seeking foreign markets than they are in protecting the con sumer from impositions like the Standard Oil price of gasoline. The commission, under Hurley's direc tion, has devoted most of its time to the subject and to trying to find a way in which the lumber business could add to its profits without en tailing the penalties of the Sherman anti-trust law." The Republicans who wouldn't be bound by party politics and who vot ed to confirm Rublee were Clapp, Kenyon, LaFollette, Norris and Poin- dexter. The Democrats who double-crossed Wilson and bent the knee to Special Privilege were: Bankhead, Brous sard, Chamberlain, Clarke, Hard wick, Marten, Martine, O'Gorman, Reed, Smith, Ga.; Smith, S. C; Un derwood and Vardaman all south ern reactionaries except Chamber-