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THE PUBLIC FORUM
LIVING ON $7.50. Of the table
given by New York health board to
keep family of five on $7.50 a week,
would say it might be done for a few
days, or even weeks, but by that time
you would be so tired of beans arid
"mush" that it would be impossible
to eat it any longer. '
Wonder if the board likes beans
so well it couldn't resist printing that
bulletin. In list given there are six
articles given that I could not eat
or use in any form on my table, and
there are other housewives just the
same. It cannot be done and keep
a family of five healthy on such diet
as the bulletin gives. Mrs. W. E. D.
MEETING GIRLS. Erik Hansen's
question, "Is it too idealistic to de
mand that a young woman must be a
lady, etc.," must be answered with.
"Yes" if your friend's assertion,
"Never to tell them the truth," is cor
rect Your and my ideals of girls are
stay-at-homes and therefore not
within reach of strangers. They go
to concerts, theaters, lectures and
parks; and, if you ever have ob
served it, in bunches. Now, except
for the parks, they attend those
things for the purpose that they are
and seek no acquaintance there be
cause nobody is there to introduce
them to us and etiquette prohibits us
men to approach the girls.
In the parks you may run the
chance to get arrested for flirting
and the girl surely for approaching
you. Thus it stands. I am at a loss
to find a way out of this predicament,
and I bet there are a thousand fel
lows of our type right here in Chi
cago who would be thankful if some
body would help them meet our
ideals; and, believe me, there are
plenty girls who do care for an up
right man.
Now, Erik Hansen, if you care to
communicate with me, have The Day
Book forward my address to you.
The Forum is interested in its read
ers and, as we have been given so
much philosophy in the past, let us
be practical for once. Advice and
golden rule talk from Wells and
Allen Steven, and religion from dif
ferent sources do not solve our mun
dane problems if we are not prac
tical. Sympathy.
SEARS-ROEBUCK. Sears-Roebuck
can easily prove that its em
ployes were not asked to parade on
June 3.
The reason we were given three
days free was because the firm did
not get in enough orders to keep up
busy Monday, the day before Decor
ation day, while those three days
were holidays. We were forced to
work all day Saturday, May 27, to
fill out the orders which were sup
posed to be filled Monday, May 29.
The idea of paying employes for
the non-working days, the baseball
ground for their employes and many
other things fixed up by the Sears
Roebuck Co. are only business prop
ositions and are not for the favor of
employes. It enables them to hire
help for as low as $7 a week. Em
ploye of S.t R. & Co.
TO HEARST. Say. Willy, you say J
a lot of things in your editorials, but
why do you hoedwink the common
people the way you do? It is a di
rect insult for the intelligent people,
for some of us know the inside work
ings of your ravings and prepared
ness, to say nothing about how you
are helping the ammunition trust
Say, Willy, we know your game j
from A to Z! We know how antag
onistic you are against organized (
labor. For instance, the pressmen's t
strike and your newsies. Such is
your patriotism.
"You cannot make a battleship out ,
of pasteboard." Right you are. hut ' i
the ammunition trust can make !
them, and make millions out of the
working people. Why should we pay
