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jv5fcfr f&i ' &&-v'g4 V& SHUSH ANN A AT LAST! SAWYER, COMES IN ' SIGHT OF ALASKA'S TREASURE-HOUSE! THE DAY BOOK An Adless'Dcdly Newspaper. N. D. Cochran, Editor and Publisher. 500 South Peoria St, 396 Tel. Mere 353. 1o Automatic 51422. By Mail, 50- Cfente s Rfonth. VOL. 2, NO. 303 Chicago, Monday, Sept. 22, 1913 ONE CENT WOULD CLOSE THE FEDERAL BLDG. IF HE HAD THE POWER State Factory Inspector -Nelson Says Postoffice Is Most Insanitary Building In the Loop Coils It a Menace to the Public 's, as Well las the Employes' Health. Thfr strange inconsistency of Postmaster DanfcT- Campbell was shown Tip Sunday by State Factory Inspector Oscar F- Nelson,, who was formerly a postoffice clerk. la an interview given to a morning newspaper Friday; Campbell de clared the main postoffice was the worst ventilated, most ill-lighted and most insanitary postoffice in the country. ' For saying those same things three years ago Mr. Nelson,, at that time in the postoffice service, was summarily bounced. But that was under a Republican administration, from whom. Campbell got his job. y k Nelson yesterday reiterated hls statements concerning the condition. "As state factory inspector I'd close the federal building immediately if I had.the power. It is without'doubt the mort insanitary building in.-th loop and' a menace to the health of the employes' and the people," said Mr. Nelson. .. , Nelson explained, the trouble hephad with Campbell three years ago. He charged that the condition of the'buildlng-was the fault of Postmaster Campbell and then Secretary of theTxeasury Franklin MacVeaghl "Three years ago (in. 1910)," said-Ulr. Nelson'after'lKcving protested Y JfcS -? :C s .