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"" '"u flWL L' ' I'lPHfc ''PIWpilFPWWBjijg.iiBwpH'iwj.' THE PUBLIC FORUM THANKS FOR THE HAT. I write this to thank you for the beautiful Easter hat which was awarded me by your judges in"thehat drawing con test. I was most agreeably surprised to get the hat without any "red tape" or other complicated doings. I con sider myself very fortunate, as I am told some 2,000 or more contested. Also I am much indebted to your Mr. Shields for his counteous help and advice in selecting. We have taken The Day Book in our home since its beginning, the only objection to it being the rivalry each evening for first chance at it. Hope you and your paper prosper. Yours respectfully. Miss Irene McCoy, 2713 W. Madison. THE UNDERWORLD. This un doubtedly will be an unusual contri bution to your many efforts on the vice situation, here, in our "not-so-bad" community. To get to the point, I, myself, am pleading guilty to being a habitue of the underworld. Quite a few years ago I was the habitual user of sev eral narcotics. Old "John Barley corn," however, always held the ace. It was during this tempting period of my career that I chanced to become acquainted with a woman of the old redlight district. She was a harlot, whose interest in me, I'm forced to believe, was from the standpoint of the Good Samaritan. She nursed, sheltered and succored me, as if I were an innocent babe. At that time this "terrible" creature of the underworld "hustled" night and day to provide funds upon which we both subsisted. To have accepted those monetary favors from a woman of her social standing surely puts me in the class of the pimp, cadet, secretary or Tiow ever society choses to elect me. When I finally became normal through the thousand kindnesses of this fallen woman I tried, and did, 8how the stuff that was in me. We are still together, and I pride myself that she no longer bears the brunt of the battle. At the proper time fshall lead her to the altar and proclaim her as mine. Not to show the knock ers of her class, but show her and this wide world that women who have fallen can make a man the most ardent and faithful lifelong compan ion. M. E. J. TWO ITEMS. Among the want ads and the other criminal news of -'the day I note that Pullman porters are paid $27.50 a month, and that it costs $19,000 per year to maintain the minor children of a deceased mil lionaire. Also that at Washington, D. C, a former millionaire blew his brains out because of business re verses. Superficial thinkers will see no con nection between these items. They may wonder why Pullman porters would be so cheap and millionaire's children so expensive. They may wonder why a millionaire should fail, not considering that in present times a mere millionaire is classed with the deserving poor and not entitled to move in high society. We may dis miss the Pullman porter and the mil lionaire's children from our minds, but when millionaires cannot main tain themselves in comfort, and re sort to suicide, an inquiry is in order. Short letters being The Day Bobk's rule, there is only room to say there is no refuge for anybody on earth ex cept in monopoly, and that monopoly must be a big one and well anchored in the ownership of the earth. Little monopolies of all kinds are con stantly being absorbed by the big ones. Monopolies not anchored in the earth are short-lived. Safety de mands that either the creation of an all embracing: monopoly that will care 'for us all or the abolition of all mo nopolies. The abolition route is graphically described in "Progress and Poverty," , by Henry George, which may,T?e ob- R s jUk ,aS . 4Mu. -.rf.. t.4;,