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of trying to invade us. Time and time . again she has marshaled her forces, both on land and sea and tried to de stroy our union. We, as free men and women should take . no pronounced interest in the war raging abroad. It is nothing but a war of conquest and commercialism. It is not a war for humanity and justice. From this article do not imagine that I am pro-German. I am pro nothing. America is my country, justice is my religion. H. H, Blan-chard. LIQUOR, ETC. The argument of the drys that the capital invested and the wages paid in the manufacture of a product has some hidden economic fault needs no answer to the in formed. All labor-saving devices, printing presses, typesetting ma chines, bottling machines, etc., should be thrown in the scrapheap. Banks, jewelry stores, theaters, mov ing picture shows, board of trades, insurance companies would also close up with the brewery. A dry writer wants every one to be informed, but fails to inform them. Their pity never seems to get to the worker in the industries they like to mention. Furniture is an example that is often used by the drys. Furniture workers as a rule work ten hours per day and less than 50 per cent of them get 17 cents per hour. Brewery workers average 25 cents per hour and work not over nine hours per day. Brewery wage earners average $718 per year. Com pare this wage with the wages in other industries. Every employe's product in the manufacture of booze is taxed $4,000. Every gallon he produces is indirectly paying an extra expense over other industries of over 17 cents per gallon. If every wage earner's product was taxed as the brewery worker's product is taxed in this country, what a lot of new schools, Panama canals, policemen, hospitals, navies, stool pigeons, investigators and lame ducks we could have. And liquor is not a necessity, either. R. D. , OSCULATION. Some people may be shocked at this question which is asked by an 18-year-old girl, but should a girl allow herself to beSj kissed? I have been taken out by many nice young men, but the friendships have never lasted long because I have never allowed myself to be kissed. These fellows tell me about girls who allow them to take these liber ties and still they continue to take . those girls out. I asked a few why they go out with such girls. They replied that they were young and wanted to have a good time. The thought consoled me for a while, for I thought when they be came older they would want girls who were more modest. If I keep on the way I am doing, now I will not have a good time. This is a period of youth and gayety, but I must get along without it I do not wosh any one to think I am lovesick or anything of the kind. I am very fond of enjoyment, and there are many places to which a girl may not go alone. Hoping to receive an answer from some young man on the subject, I re main as yet. A Modest Girl. ON SPIEGEL, MAY, STERN CO. I hope you will state the truth as you always do in reference to anoth er concern which carries a standing advertisement in the capitalist press. The firm Spiegel, May, Stern Co., 1061 W. 35th st wants young ladies to do addressing. The advertisement says the pay is $1.50 per thousand, but when the applicant goes to work they must address one thousand en velopes and one thousand wrappers for the $1.50. They pay, then, 75 cents per thou sand, and if not satisfied and the worker quits she must wait a week or longer for her money. Also she