-"-"" !.l!iliM"WiWPWPpiBWWW THE PUBLIC FORUM WHAT? This board of education mixup makes me feel like starting something, so here goes. Will some reader of The Day Book kindly in form me what the function of the public school is? And what is the duty of the public school teacher? Is it simply to teach reading, writ ing and arithmetic? Or what? Thomas Levish. NO PLACE TO PLAY. The boys of Lake street and California avenue are almost as bad off as those who live on 18th street. When we come home from work we never can meet in any lot or yard unless we are chased away by the police, and for no cause whatever. So we are now organized. Mike Doone, Business Agent C. R. U. WHY DIDN'T REILLY STAY IN THE ARMY? The valued Trib had a "military expert" who criticized this administration's military policy on every opportunity. Here was an "expert" with four years' service in the army who nev er heard a hostile shot criticizing the work of men who were in the service before he was born. This "expert" cost the U. S. $25, 000 for his education, and after four years of salary drawing he thought he had repaid the people and re signed. This "expert" was only a second Jieutenant, but he glommed his fa ther's title for a pen name to lend weight to his writings for the Trib. This "expert" was in the cavalry, but now we see him a full-fledged captain in the artillery, with the chance for promotion in the near fu ture as soon as one of our artillery majors can find . an alibi to come home to his newspaper. If this second lieutenant of cav alry had stayed in the army he would have had to wait 15 more years be fore he could command a troojj, but the "world's greatest newspaper" needed an "expert" to knock Wilson, so here we find him a captain of ar tillery, years ahead of his class and ahead of men who entered the serv ice years before him. As he is connected with the sacred Trib, this is not a case of pork. Mil ton Rosensweig. DOCTORED FOOD. There are many reasons why the working peo ple should take an interest in the co operative cafeteria plan, which was outlined by Mr. Webster in The Fo rum some time ago, and which, by the way, has been fairly well started on its road to success. I fear that many do not fully real ize the good that can be derived from a proposition of that kind. I will not dwell here on the results that will accrue from co-operation, the social benefit to its members, its educational value, nor the saving in money, but I wish to emphasize the need of the workers starting an eat ing place of their own, in order to save their stomachs and their health. A person not connected with the eating industry can scarcely realize the frauds and deceptions practiced on the foodstuffs. While there are a few public eating places that serves comparatively clean and eatable food, the faet remains that most of the so-called pure food lunches are purely fakes, and the food served is not really fit to eat. I have been sev eral years behind the scenes. Being a cook, I know whereof I speak. Space does not permit or I.would name a few of the many frauds and deceptions worked on the people who eat in the average food shop. Q) Suffice it to say that frauds take in the entire list of foodstuffs, from plaster of paris bread on down. It is only reasonable to suppose that when the people, or a part of them, get together and establish a co-operative restaurant they surely will see to it that their food shall, at least, be clean, wholesome and sea ZfsmStismzafftitie&ummviAMMk