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if she is diseased, and if not she takes no further interest If she is diseased and is locked up for treatment, does she get the right kind? No! Usually the cheapest, and the money she has paid in fines goes to pay the judge and those hard-working bailiffs. And where is the man who is re sponsible for her being diseased? At liberty, looking for aflother victim. The licensed doctors rob him, too, and the city advertises no place where he cduld get the right kind of treatment at a fair cost. Yes, there is a solution of this, one of the big problems of today, and it isn't the Kate Adams -law. One of Them. WORKERS' INSTITUTE LEAGUE. For many years the radicals of Chi cago have been trying to organize different clubs and organizations, to develop social centers where a radi . cal persons should be able to come and feel at home. Many attempts were made, but it seems that through lack of coherence and business abil ity they have failed. Over a year ago a number of rad icals organized into what is well known to the radicals not only of this city, but of the entire country, "The Workers' Institute." Is it still in existence? Has it justified the hopes and aspirations of its found ers? Those who watch its growth, development and the educational work it is doing have only one an swer to those questions. The Work ers' institute is a tremendous suc cess, morally. The constant increase of the stu dent body has necessitated the open ing of another building, southwest corner of Ashland blvd. and 12th St., and A. S. Tobinson, sup't, has started . a fund for a new building, which bids fair, with the help of all the radr ical element of Chicago, to create a real ho,nie for all the radical elements in this city. It will be the greatest movement , to the self-reliant spirit of the work ers, the first institution owned and maintained by the workers and for the workers. But in order to real-, ize this hope we must unite, co-operate and assist the few active work ers who no"w carry the burden of maintaining the institution. Last Sunday the friends and' stu dents of the 'Workers' institute or ganized hemselves into the Workers' Institute league1, a body to be affili ated with the institute for the pur pose of educational and social serv ice. ( The league will supervise and co-operate with the management of the institute, the arranging of series of lectures by such speakers as Dr. Blount, Percy Ward, Scott Nearing, Emma Goldman, Dr. Cohen and many others. All the lectures will be free to members of the league. But all this educational work will not make us forget that we are young and want to enjoy life. Be sides the Russian performance and the masquerade ball, plans have been laid for Saturday night dances, win ter outings, skating and toboggan parties. We earnestly hope that all radicals of Chicago, regardless of na tionality, social philosophy or party, will join us in our endeavor to get togetherand create a real social cen-r ter. If the tY. M. C. A. did it, why cannot we? Write, phone or file applications at the Workers' i .stitute, 920 Ashland blvd. All live radicals are welcome to help us to revive the dead ones. James E. Tobinson, Chairman Work ers' Institute League. ' o o "In Persia the wedding service is read in front of a fire. In Nicaragua the priest, taking the couple each by the little fingers, leads them to an apartment where a fire Is lighted, and there instructs the bride in her du ties, extinguishes the fQre by way of conclusion. In Japan the woman kin- dies a torch and bridegroom lights one from it, the playthings of the wife then being burned..