The day book. [volume], December 02, 1915, LAST EDITION, Image 21

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THE DAY BOOK
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N. D. COCHRAN
EDITOR AND PUBLISHER.
000 SO. PEORIA ST. CHICAGO, ILL
T ;...,. Editorial, Monroe 333
lelepflOneS Circulation. Monroe 3S2fl
SUBSCKIPTION By Carrier In Chicago,
30 centi a Month. By Mall. United
States and Canada, $3.00 a Year.
Entered as second-class matter April
21, 1914. at the postofflce at Chicago.
111., under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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LOCAL PRIDE AND LOCAL
FACTS. Star differs from star in
glory and each part of the U. S. A.
has its -own peculiar merits. Expe
rience teaches us that ia mentioning
localities it is safest to stick to the
merits. This makes pleasure rather
than progress. We all believe in bet-
Iterment, in making things more
nearly right as the years go by why
is is then that the publication of un
pleasant facts as to a city is so in
flaming to the inhabitants thereof
even when praise is added? Why
don't people get sore at the things
that are wrong and wipe them out?
Righteous indignation is concerned
with the existence of evil. For ex
ample; Mr. P. S. Garrison, who is su
perintendent of the burglary and
plate glass insurance department of
the Travelers' Indemnity Co., tells
the Casualty and Statistical Society
of America in the course of a purely
technical address that:
"It is well known that burglaries
occur more freauently in some cit-
A ies than in others. The highest res
W idence rates are for risks located in
m vjuiudgu uiiu duu riaiiuiouu. ii was
found some years ago that loss ratio
on residence business in those cities
was so high that it was impossible to
make a fair profit on the business."
Suppose we had made that state
ment in an article or editorial; would
the embattled editors of Chicago and
with constructive suggestions for
bettering police protection in their
cities, or would they have landed on
us with whatever was handy? You
know the answer. And yet facts are
facts, even in the proudest cities, and
it is men's business to better them.
Collier's Weekly.
SHORT ONES
The Turks are all total abstainers.
There's a reason. Imagine a fellow
coming home at 2 in the morning
with a hundred wives waiting for him
just inside the door.
A Chicago Pullman porter has in
herited $10,000 but what's ten thou
sand to the average Pullman porter!
The wages of sin are seldom
enough to pay the bills.
What you know there's no use ar
guing about
Creed is the barrier between need
and feed.
SNIFF-SNIFF!
"Disease," said our family doctor,
who had been invited to supper, "al
ways attacks the weakest spot in a
person's body." "Pa," interrupted my
youngest son, "you certainly have a
fearful cold in your head." Hudson.
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