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THE DAY .BOOK! 2V. D. COCHRAN EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. -MO 8, FBORIA ST. C1IIPAGO. Ilil. TtlenhoriPl MHorlalj Monroe 363 telephones circulation. Monroe 3&W Subscription rBy Carrier tgi Chicago, 50 cents aJMonth, By Mall, United States and Canada,-50 cents a Month. . Entered as second-clasi matter April 21, 1914, at the postofflce St Chicago. IIL. under the Act of March-"?, 1879. THE WATCH DOC-Suppose you bought a wa.tch.dog to watch your house and scare off burglars and , thieves. You'd- feed the, watchdog well, of course. You'd expect him to know members of tfce family and not attack or drive them off.. But you'd expect .him to keep dangerous characters away and protect -jyour family. Now suppose -some burglar would c.onre along and- throw a chunk of meat to your watchdog and the watchdog would run off behind the house to eat it wM the burglar robbedyour house. You wouldn't think that dog was much of a watch dog, would you? Very likely you'd 'be so disgusted you'd .get rid of that false-alarm watchdog p.d.q. Is there really any difference be tween'that fool dog and your family newspaper that will forget YOUR In terests, the moment some business burglar threw it a nice fat advertisement? EGGS.-VWlien the hensare -laCying in the spring and eggs are plenty, food gamblers buy them up and pack-l them away in cold storage. That helps hold up the price in times of plenty. -Then when cold weather comes, hens go ona strike and the supply1 is low, the food' gamblers can let eggs out of coM storage just slow .enough to hold the price where they 1 want it Cold storage. taagood thing if property used to rauKteatyy adjust supply and demand. But it isn't properly used when, it sixes greedy, food gamblers the means wherewith to control both the buying and selHng price, paying the owner of the hins what they please and phargingJ the xonBumer what they please. The answer isn't to kill eold storage bu to make use Of it for the public good. If private owne?S insist on baing hogSr thtetf the, public might better-, control cold storage . y HIGH COSJ OF PARTYISM.-H public officials would to do their work instead of creating jobs for pol iticians they would find it easier to keepwitMn their appropriations. No businesscqneern could live i&munfoi pal politicial methods of .emplbynient were used. Too many jobs ureas votes rather than work.. That's, the high, cost pi partyism. It evidently dost Chicago quite a wad to defeat Miller for state's attorney. RpLlTlCS IS BUSINESS; -J- Now they say that Fred E. Sterling, chaii man of the Republican, stat commit tee, aTidW.-Sieacf, Goy.-ejeet Low-den's-(Campaign'manajpigi aj$4o be members of-Lowden's sfaeHaoard of pubhc utilities. That's business. If these two distinguished G..O..P. lead ers collected funds dfiring the cam paign they'll be.wb.ere. they can 'do the most good for Che contributors provided, of cottrset any public utili ties contribuated to Lowden's cam paign fund. It will be interesting tfr watch and see-Just what favors the campaign contributors want and get. Yes, politics is business. - ' r .OSTLYCHAFF ; mefr&or'aaghly tbrashadow: the straw vdte nas yTeldeaabout the kind' of crop, that might have been ana- cipatea. oo A plumber never forsres to- forstt bring his. tools to a job.