The day book. [volume], January 19, 1917, LAST EDITION, Image 12

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ALL ROUND TOWN
Aid. John Toman says Boston
keeps saloon doors and windows'free
of screens and blinds. Anyonepas
slng can look in and see-who is drink
ing. "I don't care if we have it in Chi
cago," says Toman. "The .first 60
days there would be all kinds of look-ing-in
through saloon windows. Then
it would stop.
"In Boston people going along the
street don't look into saloonjdndows
any more than Ve in Chicago peek
into the Thompson or Weeghman
restaurants."
LABOR MEN SAY MILITARY PLAN
SHOULD BE UP. TO PEOPLE
Military drill in the public schools
of Chicago may be a good thing or
not, but the way it has come is the
same way the great European war
came onto the neonle of Eurone. ae-
ti i cording to Chicago .and Illinois Fed
eration of Labor offices. They are
planning action against the spbpol
"board with a view to getting a re
ferendum on the military drill propo
sition. "When the czar of Russia does to
his people and what the kaiser of
"Germany does to his people is ex-A
actly the-same thing the Chicago
board of education has done to. the
people of this city so far as form
and method of government is con
cerned," said John Fitzpatrick, pres
ident Chicago Federation of Labor..
"If the people of the nations of
Europe had only, had a chance xto
vote on whether they should go out
and .butcher each other, the- results,
might have been different. What we
ask in this situation is only this one
thing that the people whose tax mo"
ney is paying for the public schools,
the people whose children are to have
military drill thrust on them, should
have the right to vote yes or no
whether they want s Jch military drill f
in the schools. It is a perversion of J
democracy and it's treachery to
everything the founders of this re
public stood for. We are against any
small body like the board of educa
tion forcing on the whole public
school ystem their military service
plans without giving the people a
chance to go on record for or'
against." " ,
Victor Olander, secretary of the
state federation of labor, Rooked over
a stenographic report of what Vice
Pres. John W. Eckhart of the school
board said at the board meeting two
weeks ago when the military drill
measure was passed. Eckhart made
the flatfooted statement that the
eleventh-hour opposition of the
trades unionists to military drill was,,
"inspired."
The exact words in whiph Eckhart
accuses the labor federations of
statements favoring military drill will
be brought into resolutions and dis
cussions at the federation meeting
Sunday.
"Whatever the precise position of
labor may be on military drill injrab
lic schools, there is one point we nave
always been clear and decisive on
and that is the right of the people to
vote on any war measures of import
ance," said Olander. "We have peV
sistently asked for a referendumon
military drill. The declaration of
Vice Pres. Eckhart that our organ
izations favor such drastic imposi
tion, such arrogant action as this
inilitary drill business, is either n6n
sense or falsehood."
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"BRAVEST FIREMAN" DEAD
Lieut Robert Ambrose, known as
the "bravest fireman in Chicago,"
died yesterday at his home, TOT
Kenmore av. He was 55. He leaves
a widow. Death was due to a para
lytic stroke,
Ambrose earned his bravery title in.
Octobe. 1899, at a fire that threat
ened to sweep all of. South Chicago.
He dashed up three nights of a burn
ing building arid carried an uncon
scious fireman to safety.
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