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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, September 01, 1916, LAST EDITION, Image 22

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THE PUBLIC FORUM
REGISTERS A KICK. Knowing
that your paper reaches the union
men I want to ask them if they con
sider the brotherhoods of railroad
employes a union organization?
I am one of the many railroad em
ployes who have a bone to pick with
the brotherhoods. Seven years ago
when the freight handlers and the
railroad clerks went out on a strike,
did they help us when they pulled
from the freight houses the cars
which had been loaded and billed by
the scabs, and when they put the
empty cars in the freight houses did
they help our cause? And what are
they doing today (when they are tell
ing the public how much they are
abused) to help the freight handlers
that are out at the C. B. & Q. and
the several other railroads? Are they
refusing to pull the cars loaded by
scabs from the freight houses? .
When you ask them why they do
these things they tell you: "Why,
we don't need any help from you.
Why should we help you?" Well,
now is the time to show these aris
tocrats among the railroad employes
that they do need the help of organ
ized labor. Let us instill some union
spirit in them. J. E. Purcell.
GIRLS DEMAND RESPECT.
Nearly all girls are treated alike by
young men whom they meet for the
first time in any of the various places
of public resort. The majority want
to joke and fool around, but it does
not take long for a serious-minded
girl to show them that she will not
stand for such nonsense. She art
fully tries to lead him into a conver
sation either on current events,
science or art, and if the young man
understands they interchange
thoughts and so derive more pleas
ure than had they been spooning and
flattering.
Modern girls demand respect and
they get it, for if they see that they
can not speak intelligently on any
subject wih him they withdraw from
his company.
I rejoiced to see Constant Reader's
article to that effect, for I, too, am a
girl of 17, planned a career, and
heartily enjoy the company of sensi
ble young men and women, and am
proud to say that such girls are on
the increase, no longer being "the
clinging vines, but growing into the
stately hollyhocks or the salvia to
which Margie Waverly is likened to
in the "Confessions of a Wife."
Marie Venus.
WAR, RAVING, ETC. Mr. Schil
ling objects to efforts to find out the
cause of drink and poverty. Very
well, let's practice non-resistance and
resign ourselves to the powers that
be. If they're satisfied, no doubt we
should be.
He says: "Why rave about social
ism when we have other philosophies
more up to date?" We're not look
ing for a philosophy. We're looking
for the full equivalent of our pro
duct If you can find a better means
of getting it than through socialism
I'd like to hear it
My critic adds: "Why rave about
the working class in their sleep and
neglect yourself?" Why, simply be-"
cause in union there is strength. In
dividual advantage of the worker is
impossible without collective gain of
the working class.
"Why rave against war when it
rids the world of the unfit?" Where
does my friend get that noise? I'll
tell you what war does. It takes the
flower of the manhood of a nation,
the strong and healthy, to be killed
and mangled for the benefit of an
exploiting classand leavessthe unfit
at home to perpetuate the race. Is
that ridding the world of the unfit?
Even a single taxer t)ught to know
better than that
"Why rave of the distant millen
ium?" The' more you strive for it
the less distant it will be. Have you
no ideals, M. Schilling?
"Why rave of right and wrong

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