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iiave tried in the past to get recog nition of their union, and they should have help from labor which is organ ized. The building trades cannot be of assistance at this time of the year, but there are teamsters' unions; are there not, for the large department stores? There should be more soli darity among union men and wom en; they should stand by each other. There is nothing which employers associations fear as much as a big sympathetic strike, yet in that land of a strike x lies the only remedy for much which the workers suffer from today. The policemen do not want to ride on the wagons, but they will probably think they must It is a great pity. Nellie H. Baldwin, 6622 St Lawrence Av. WHAT BOYS THINK OF GIRLS. In reference to what the boys think of the Chicago girls, I beg to .say that most of the girls of this large city are responsible for the actions of the boys. If a boy wants to meet a girl and be in her company he will have to go to a cabaret or a show to find her. And if he goes to her house to call on her the first thing she will do is order a bottle of wine. If she does as bad as he does, and is partly to blame for his actions, then why con demn the boy? I have been in near ly every city of any importance in the world and find there are very few girls who will' help a boy to reform. The Day Book is a paper unex celled in other cities. F. D. B. HELL HOLES. "Segregation" means that thousands of our women are to be herded in districts where all varieties of tyranny, crime and bru tality may scarcely be checked. Land monopoly reduces wages to less than subsistence, and we proceed to col lect the victims in places worse than penitentiaries. Idle land the cause of idle men and women. We can at least allow the victims freedom to get the best conditions they can. But , shall house owners harbor such peo ple? Let them also be free to re fuse. There are all degrees of "fallen" women; few can point them out; and why do we not object to the men who support them; and how deter mine the, degree of degradation that requires segregation? Single tax will bring opportunity and wages for these citizens; until we get it, let us show some mercy to the victims of legal monopoly. C. F. Hunt. INVITATION TO LONSTON. If A. E. Lonston doubts the article pubr lished in The Day Book on Dec. 1 I invite him to our headquarters to meet some ex-orphan home boys who ,got into trouble and appealed to our Boys' Brotherhood Republic for help. When I speak of the repub lic I speak of Jack Bobbins, for it is he who organized Us, it is he who has taught us and it is he who has" guid ed us for almost three years. Hardly a week goes by but what the investigating committee of the Boys' Brotherhood Republic does not help an ex-orphan home boy out of trouble. I am chairman of that com mittee and I have one particular case in mind now which might interest you, Mr. Lonston. This boy had been released from an orphan home for about sjx months. When I got in touch with him he had been ar rested as a "baby automobile ban dit" Representatives of the Boys' Brotherhood Republic were at this boy's trial and told the judge the en vironment that this boy had been liv ing in ever since he was released from the home. They proved with out any doubt that the boy had never had a chance to make good. Mr. Lonston, if you doubt the 35 per cent write to the juvenile court boys' court, St Charles reform school and the Joliet penitentiary and ask them how many orphan home boys they have handled in the last year. Then write to the orphan.