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- iSWS"" w&'rmi hjji I THE DAY BOOKi iV. JDL COCHRAN EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. 500 S. PEORIA, ST. CHICAGO. HA. Tolorthnnpv Editorial, Monro 383 leiepnones circulation. Monro 3S3B SUBSCRIPTION By Carrier in Chi cago, 30 cents a Month. By Mail. United States and Canada, $3.00 a Year Entered as sccnd-class matter April XI. 1914, at the postofflce at Chicago. 111., under the Act of March 3, 1879. BECAUSE THEY SUFFER. There are some little things which this country is doing that our more rahid German friends, who look upon the "United States as an enemy, are over looking. More than 4,000,OOQ pounds of clothing have been shipped from Tien-tsin to Vladivostok by the American Red Cross, destined solely for German prisoners of war in Si beria. The task of distribution is ex tremely difficult and necessitates great sacrifices upon the part of the Americans in charge, but when the work is finally completed the host of, German prisoners in Siberia will, each and every one, be warmly clad in clothing contributed by American friends. In addition, heroic efforts are being made by the American Red Cross physicians to check the spread of typhoid among the prisoners. Se rum is being sent from tlie United States for that purpose. ' GIRL'S WAGES. It is gratifying to the. social reformers and the press which has ungrudgingly aided in the work to note the increasing- tendency of today to pay working girls a living wage. Slowly but surely the wage scale of women workers is creeping up. Where employers are not "making vol untary increases state legislation is attempting to force it Even the un derpaid women school teachers are beginning to feel the effect of the up-, ward trend. But one class of girl workers still remains whose pay envelopes, some how, never seem to fatten the tele phone girls. And it is passing strange that it shoukTbe so, for, apart from the fact that they are devoted, loyal employes, the telephone girls enjoy a monopoly of that particular occupa tion. Picture to yourself a mere man with five thumbs on each hand, "plug ging in" to the tune of two or three "hundred calls more or less to the hour. Why the "United States would be peopled with a race of raving ma niacs within ninety days. If all the hello girls would go on a strike in the morning the country would be on its knees to them before nightfall. But, bless their hearts, they never think of striking, but "plug" away for dear life and a pittance. o o Georgie Perkins is roasting Wilson for "violating the Baltimore plat form." We'll give a Nevada mine for . 6opy of any platform that was not violated if it meant anything. ' If Doc Cook still feels bad over not finding wild-inenn-Borneo he might look over the flooded or snow-bound railroad managements of the Pacific coast. CMON, KNOCK It OFF- . KNOCK IT OFF! V f I (THE PACIFIST) -gfo. Xif JyJtmy '.'tVS",- V V" -