corporate limits of Chicago, yet the
population is: growing by many thou
sands every" year. But even if the
population increased by two million,
there wouldn't be another square
foot of land in Chicago unless we ex
tended the corporate limits.
But the demand for land, and
hence its selling value, increases as
the population increases.
That's why it is possible for a
man who owns land in a growing
community to sit back and take life
easy while the people make him
rich.
Old Marshall Field' was wise to the
game when he gave instructions to
his administrators, in his will, to buy
land in Chicago, or get 99-year
leases.
His two grandsons, one about 20
and the other about 18, are now be
ing educated in England, while the
land he owns in the loop and else
where goes on increasing in value.
Those boys don't have to even wig
gle their toes. Everybody in Chicago
is working for them.
And the high rents in the loop,
caused by the .growing demand for
land YOU have to pay them, for the
merchants who pay the rent have to
get it out of the people they sell
goods to.
But if we taxed the vacant land all
over Chicago so that the owners
could not afford to keep it out of use,
very likely Chicago would grow all
over instead of in spots. We could
grow along the ground Instead of up
in the air.
Yes, YOU are interested in the va
cant land.
WANTS COTTON GOWNS WORN
New Orleans, Sept. 15. Mrs. An
nette Kincade Dent of Yazoo City.
Miss., has started appeal for women
of the" south to aid cotton planters
by wearing only cotton gowns. More
than a score of TXevr Orlean's fash
ionable women have agreed to dis
card silks and satins for cottons. The
move promises, to be widespread.
LETTERS TO EDITOR
AN AMERICAN NEUTRAL
Editor Day Book: Reading one of
our Chicago trust newspapers last
week I read an account of some of
our American citizens marching
through the streets of Paris, carry
ing the American flag, on their way
to join the French army. Now I want
to ask you and the readers of The
Day Book if this is Americanism or
what?
In conclusion, I wish to state that
I am favoring no country in this war
as I am American born. G. F. B.,
Parkside, III.
CHRISTIANS AND WAR
Editor Day Book: Whaddayou
mean by bringing non-Christians in
to the war. I have read quite a few
of the teachings of Christ and failed
to find where he sanctioned war or
strife in any form. There are no
Christians at war. Say what you
mean. Call them Caucasians. W.
H. P.
THAT EUROPEAN JUNKET
Editor Day Book: I am pleased
to see Attorney T. J. Sutherland go
after that school bunch who went to
Europe at our expense. Pretty soft
to draw a fat salary and then take
a fine trip on the taxpayers' money.
And it is us small taxpayers who
have to stand it, not the grafters or
bankers. J. Kimball, 5844 LaSallo
St.
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TO TRANSLUCY
"My love in her attire doth show her
wit,"
An unknown bard I quote
Of days Elizabethan, ere the slit
Was theme to fire a pote.
O for the quaintness Of an elder day
When fashions were the oddest!
When maidens were, though just a
trifle gay,
Comparatively modest
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