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TTTWTWTT'TWFTTfW'lWW'PPPPPPPPPip THE PUBLIC FORUM WOULD KILL ODOR. The city health authorities would greatly ben efit the public by furnished the gar bage removers with some sort of dis infectant to place in the garbage cans when empty. Frequently there remain maggots and various kinds of bugs in great profusion, greatly to the detriment of the public. Especially is this true in congested districts, where swill is not removed as promptly as it should be in proportion to its accumulation. M. Rasmussen. SQUARE MEALS NEEDED, While there is such great examina tion going on among school children it would be well for the doctors to take a peep into their stomachs and find out when they had a square meal. Then a crusade should be started against the system that does not al low those little children to be prop riy nourished. The infantile paralysis may be warded off in most cases if the little stomachs were given a treat and given the taste of plenty of milk. Also if they were given fresh egg parties, fresh air and so forth. It's the germs of starvation instead of infantile paralysis that should be looked into. If a child is found af flicted, then what? Sent home to starve some more? The contagion is all around and no more danger to those standing in line any more than to those at home. Away with the system. A Mother. TWASNT U. C. COALw In a let ter to The Forum a lady say that she is thankful for coal given to her by the charity society. She is mistaken. -The charity peo ple give no coal to any one. The coal this lady received came from the county agent But the charity people are inclined to let poverty stricken people labor under the error fnat they, the charity people, give the coal. If this lady will investigate she will discover that the coal she needed was paid for by the taxpay ers. Otto McFeely. THE SCUM OF THE EARTH. You know what kind of prepared ness the Trib and the loop press are $f yelping, for -"prepare a big standing army to keep the workingman down. Seaman Higgins, in spurning the present of the rookettes, voiced the feeling of all the enlisted men in the army and navy on these rookette and student camp farces. What incentive has a man to en list in the army or navy? None. If we want men to enlist give them something to enlist for. 'Why not cut out all these social lions .from commissions by making it a law that no man shall receive a commission unless he has served two years as an enlisted man? Have schools in every ship and army port and give men vocational training or educate them for v com missions. We have over 1,000 enlisted men at West .Point who do all the dirty work for the cadets. Why not give enlisted men prefer ence on all civil service lists when they are discharged from service? Teddy Roosevelt and the Trib are yelping for compulsory service. But their idea is oonscription for the masses and commissions for the classes. Where would Maje McCor mick be if he got his commission on his merits? , The Appeal to Reason has repeat edly stated that Wm. H. Taft, when he arrived as the governor general w in the Philippine islands (remember - that junket de luxe with Nick long worth and Pricess Alice), said that our little brown, brothers should not judge the American people by the American soldiers, as jour soldiers were the scum of the earth. Prof. Taft has never tried to deny mmmmtm