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Chicago in. particular, Because I know that the sickness, suffering -and misery they some In contact -with appeals to their inner selves for practical aid- and solution; N When parents, do not follow their instructions and advice and care for their children accordingly, it is no wonder they cry out; "What will you do about it?" Some parents are afraid to apply a soft brush to. the throat and cleanse off the matter hat gathers on the tonsilsj or bathe an inflamed part with just -water. Some have no faith in doctors, medicine or anything else and gome are indifferent and lazy. While some children absolutely re fuse any and all Kinds of treatment, others submit good naturally and are helped. And now you ask me, "What will you do about It?", Well, I will give a point blank answer and tell you there is nothing more for you to do hut to draw your.salary and go home and rest yourself after your hard day's wtirk. . , But if you warit to follow me fur ther,' if you are not quite satisfied with my point blank conclusion, then coma on. Help me construct, yes reconstruct my Utopia : Chicago a "City Beautiful," "Bellamy's Look ing Backward," or anything any other name might convey, the idea of a community where sanitation, architecture landscapes, discipline, manners and morals harmonized. Help me liuild this up, and I assure you, aU of youi who are disgusted with the filth and disease in this city and others, that .you will have a more agreeable occupation than the work, you are now compelled to do and' the misery you are compelled to witness daily. Besides, the parents of these chil dren, you describe are not fit to rear children, according to physicians' testimony, because they work under unsanitary conditions, long hours, where the sun never shines, and live in the. worst shacks that they call homes, where the idea of t care, health and sanitation never enters their brain because they have never seen or perhaps not heard, of any thing like that. "What will you do about it?" August Olson, 3216 Osgood st. WHY PROHIBITION? When man receives pay for trying to elim inate what he thinks is evil and in so doing stirs criminal tendencies to ac tion, I think it iswrong. Let me tell Mr. Sbeck that I will not trust the, sincerity of a man w"ho tries to uplift drunkards when he is paid by the. persons responsible for their condi tion, Why pick drunkards .for example when they are a "Very , small per cent of the drinkers? Why not put every body in, jail because of the possibfi ity of their becoming criminals, The sale of liquor does not make drunk ards; it is the lack of self-control on behajf-of the Individual. Here is some proof that drink is not the cause of crimej About 80 per cent of the adult male population of N. Y. state uses liquor, Of 3,000,000 adults in that' state, 2,400,000 drink. In 1914, 19",293 males were Sen tenced, less than one per cent, Does drink keep 99 per cent virtuous? Wen do not engage In burglary while drunk- It Is impossible to conceive of men planning to commit forgery or -grand larceny while intoxicated.. Extravagant wives and mothers have made more paupers than drink has made possible, Kresge, owner of the 5 and 10 cent stores In Michigan, said if that' state went dry It would increase the efficiency of his employes 2& per cent Now that state is' dry, has he Increased the wages J25 per cen.t? Oh, no, because it would be from $5 to $6,25 a week for each employe. - This will show how the drys favor labor. Oregan voted dry by 136,842 votes, and the same people, at the same time, voted on universal 8-bour day, but -only 49,360 m favor, SUt