The day book. [volume], April 11, 1916, LAST EDITION, Image 22

About The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917

Image provided by: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library, Urbana, IL

                
THE PUBLIC FORUM
SECRET SOCIETIES. I am a
member of a lodge that has certain
signs and words that are considered
"secret" The great question has
often arisen in my mind in the five
years of my affiliation witlrthis lodge
is: Why should men have secrets
from one another in lodges and so
called fraternal societies?
If a man belongs to a so-called fra
ternal society and he should be at
a place where his assistance would
be of great benefit to some unfor
tunate being he does not consider it
a duty as much to help that one as
he would if the unfortunate wore an
emblem signifying that he was a fra
ternal brother. My version of frater
nalism is to help all and any regard
less of nationality or creed, member
or not of any secret society. Leslie
Barnes, 238 N. Hoyne Av.
THE FOREIGNERS. A comrade
who signed C. F. J. said in Saturday's
Day Book that Americans only should
be hired in our industries. This will
be our country, he said, and we will
fight for it when the door is closed
against foreign immigration.
Dear comrade, you forget to think
that it was a foreigner who discov
ered this country of ours. It was the
foreigner who built the railroads, it
was the foreigner who fought for its
independence, and now you, a for
eigner, tell us that this is our coun
try, and we should close the doors
to all foreigners. But you wouldn't
think in this manner if you happened
to be across the ocean instead of in
the U. S. A.
You say that the foreigner works
for less wages, thus preventing the
American citizen from being hired.
But, my dear brother, what proof is
this? This goes to show that the
American business man doesn't care
a straw about American citizens. He
is looking for profit, not citizens. We
don't want to close the doors to1 any
foreigner. When he lands on our
shores we should receive him with
open arms and not greet him as
Dago, Sheeney or Dutchman. We
should educate him and teach him
the ideals of Americanism.
Don't you think that these foreign
ers deserve a little of your sympathy
when you see them submitting them
selves to any kind of labor just to
make an honest living, instead of get- 0)
ting a gun and going out nights to
hold up honest people Nicholas
Carnovale.
WHAT JULIUS READS. With
pride I note the wonderful progress
of The Day Book. I see it winning
its way into the hands and hearts of
our best citizens and citizenesses
more and more. Hundreds of the
employes of Sears-Roebuck buy the
great little paper and eagerly devour"
its contents on their way home, and
I hear from several sources that "me
frind Joolyiss" himself reads the
book, which goes to prove that he is
a man of unusual wisdom for a mil
lionaire. Next we may hear of Mr.
Rosenwald boosting the wages of his
employes. Who knows? J as. O.
Boy.
SAYS SACHS WAS FAILURE.-;
The press made a big sensation out
of Dr. Sachs' suicide. The daily pa
pers printed column after column to
describe every detail of his suicide,
praise him as a saver of hundreds of
lives and as one of noblest of men.
The press attacks Mayor Thompson,
and those who back the mayor as the
cause of Dr. Sachs' suicide. They
attack his politics regarding the mu
nicipal tuberculosis sanitarium. They
say he appointed as employes men
who were not qualified, but his fa
vorites who were not fit In the sani
tarium. I am a Thompson political oppo
nent, but I give him credit for order
ing an investigation in the sanita
rium. Thousands of dollars were
spent for building and maintaining
the sanitarium, yet it is a failure, (fct
m
ggU