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ing performance cut down about 30 minutes, so as to enable the company to get to the Coliseum by midnight Suckers? Thou art a jewel! Then, again, this show, advertised as a real success from New York, came here with much praise - and was accorded great support, as-it no doubt deserved. However, a man who saw this show on its opening and would care to see it today would see some change. In the formation of drills by the chorus girls one can notice where several girls are missing. In fact, at least five to eight girls are .missing, including one of the leads. Also the twelve men in the Silver City number have been dispensed with. Several of the numbers have been cut out, making the show at least 20 minutes earlier than on the opening night. And still they have raised the price 50 cents and you have to pay $2.50 for a main floor seat. Oh, you Chicago public! How you do like to get cheated. You remind me so much of the woman who did not think her husband loved her un less he beat her. So you don't be lieve one can love you unless they "do" you good, Gee, but how you must be loved! And what will be the end and when? C. N. Baker. REMAIN NEUTRAL. Millions for defense to the last drop of blood in our system, but not a pickayune for conquest! And if that be treason to the monopolistic moneyijunkers that want war let them make the most of it The unctious satisfaction that these war-crazed people looked upon the efforts of tyrant England to starve the women and children of Germany into servile 'submission to her dictates, as compared with the holy horror they exhibit when Ger many, as a last resort to save her na tional existence adopts the same tac tics, would make the war gods of the ,dark ages blush in shame. Now I am not what the Journal designates a "hyphenated copper head," but I always did have a heart for the under dog in a fight, and the other day when I saw a bow-legged, undershot-jawed bulldog have a sci entifically vell-bred Scotch collie by the throat eating his life out, I held a bunch of lighted matches under the bulldog's nose, and, by golly, he let go ! No, I wasn't pro-bull nor pro come.' If the proposition had been reversed I would have held the matches under the collie's liose just as quick. I was simply neutral and wanted to see fair play. C. M. Max son, 6637 Normal Av. o o HEADS SUBMARINE SERVICE OF UNCLE SAM AW GRANT Rear Admiral Grant is the first oU ficer of high rank to be put in charge of the entire submarine flotilla ofvthe United States. He is conducting the three-year building program for 12 fleet submarines and 130 coast sub-, mersibles. Elevator Conductors' and Starters union admitted to A. F. of L. '