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mmmmmmmmmmmm i districts of the country is not only a moral measure,- but good business, and the only sane thing for a com' munity to do. The best abatement law in the country is the one in force m California. ' I take pride in the fact that I voted for it, being a citien of Lbs Angeles in 1914. If you wish to know how it works, go to the public library and get the Sunset magazine for August, 1916, No. 2 of voL 38, page 38. So ciety should be relieved of the burden of the red light and soon will. With it should go men with such unspeak- auiy unnumanitanan religions as tnis Myers. "The old frontier order changeth. It is the red light's last fucker. Jehiel S. Davis. WALSH AND VINCENT. Even I who have always been a majority rule Socialist can see that Walsh takes up Vincent wrongly. Walsh uses the word "free" as if it meant "freedom to invade." Vincent never' has con tended for "absolute liberty," but al ways for "equal liberty." A leper has some rights. Restraining a leper by force in the interest of equal free dom would not be "rule" at all as. I Vincent defined it. To leave a leper at large if leprosy is contagious (of which I have very grave doubts) would be to be ruled or invaded by the leper. Full freedom foj non-lep-erous or non-invasive individuals could not be objected too despite Walsh's faulty logic The same mistake in logic is made by Walsh in his failure to recognize the difference between co-operation that is" subject only to the compul sion of natural laws, which Vincent very properly calls "voluntary"f or "free" co-operation, as compared with that type of co-operation which is the result of artificial invasive compulsion. I am interested in learning if Mr. Vincent accepts economic determin ism as the dominant factor in his sys tem of Voluntary Socialism. , There are many other questions he could better concern himself with than with Walsh's twisting of his words. , Mr. Vincent and not Noah Webster is writing for The Day Book, and I am very pleased to have such clear-cut definitions given, so that a student can know exactly when he means. There are worse things than slovenly thinking. Twist ing words is one of them. I.. Perry. SOCIALISM AND PROHIBITION. A. H. Simons' reason for the loss of so many votes to the Socialist party are to my mind just opposite to the reasons. A great part of the Socialist party are Germans; they are also a liberal people, and no one could expect them to want their rel atives and countrymen defeated in the great war. They prefer Prussian militarism to English, French or Russian militarism natu rally. And about the Socialist party not teking part in the prohibition cause, Simons should not worry, as many of the Socialists do take an active part against liquor. One of thevfew So cialist aldermen that the party has elected had to be instructed by- the party in convention not to take sides, and he has obeyed. But, privately, he has debated with other Socialists and is about to debate the question with a tfDn-Socialist, taking the af firmative on prohibition. He is en titled to his opinion and justified in expressing it, but there is no doubt in my mind that taking the conserva tive stand that so many Socialists take at this time has driven a great number out of the party. Haywood, Jack London and many other less notable members left the party for the I. W. W. and other revolutionary bodies. ' . A government should be organized for the happiness of its members. A majority should not rule unless for the well-being of its members. A majority should rule only on things that affect them. Selfishness is the only justification for majority rule. A V