The day book. [volume], January 14, 1914, LAST EDITION, Image 12

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$2.50 a day in wages.
Henry Ford has made . millions
making and selling cheap automo
biles. And he has just raised the wage
of his employes toa minimum of $5
a day a jump from $2.34.
I don't know whether men can feel
the love and hatred of their fellow
men, but if they can, then Shaw and
Aggassiz must be unhappy in their
ill-gotten wealth, and Ford must be
happy with all his millions. For all
over this country there is a kindly
f eeling fpr' Ford, and I believe there
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DAILY COMMENT ON
They're tangoing on the ice now
adays. Next they-might try it on a . red hot
stove. , . ' .
That gink $iom Glen View who
stood on Adams street to rubberneck,
at the skyscrapers got a. real Chicago.
reception.
An auto hit him and he wb.ke up
in a hospital.
A Chicago street is no place for a
human being, unless he has taken
lessons in dodging them darned buzz
wagons. Gee, but the Tribune ran the Ex
aminer out of gasoline on the news
from Calumet.
The Exam sent a reporter up there
and he said he was going to send in
the truth.
As the Exam didn't print any, guess
the reporter didn't find any truth up
there.
The. Hearst organ might as well
have played the old game that is,
write the story in the office, without
letting facts interfere.
Atlanta business men appealed to
Willie Hearst to,, try to get Atlanta
one of the reserve banks.
Will he? Willie says he will.
But if Atlanta gets one it will be
in spite of Hearst's help rather than
because of it.
They're on to Hearst in Washing
ton and he has no pulL
' His long pull appears to be with
is general contempt for Aggassiz and
Shaw.
Sometimes I tnink that both love
and hate carry through the air, and
that those who deserve either are
conscious of the feeling in the hearts
of their fellows for them or against
them.
If it isn't so I wish it were. I wish
all men would feel that their place in
the affections of the universe can be
only such place as their conduct to
ward the entire human brotherhood
deserves.
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PEOPLE AND THINGS
the steel trust and Wall street.
But fortunately those influences
are not running the present adminis
tration. Hearst can't even get. a bid to the
White House.
Elgin. Butter Board cut the price
Monday two cents. We should wor
ry! They can go as far as they like
with that cut.-
yAfter his next fight Packey McFar
land plans to take a honeymoon trip
and give up fighting.
Which means that Feb. 12 will be
his last battle in the ring. With'
apologies to Packey and his future
bride.
The business of Seigel, Cooper &
Co. is on the increase, according to
counsel for the firm.
Hurrah! That means that the
"girls -behind tie counters" will get
their share of the profits. (See next
item!)
"Oh, Mr. Dream Man, Please-Let
Me Dream -Some More."
PEEP!
"The fashion&.of today are a cir
cus." "Then I suppose you'd say the slit
skirts are the sideshow." N. Y,
World.
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New York. Estimated 50,000 men
out of work, 40,000 unmarried, with-
out homes or funds.
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