those who are dependent upon these
weaklings. Organized effort will do
wonders. We know the grand re
sult we have obtained in our own
trade through organization. We give
a helping hand to the weakling. So
let us try the same method to check
the evil of drunkards, and do it with
a brotherly spirit for the sake of
those who depend on the drunk for
support H. E. Scheck.
SEGREGATION. In regard to
your article on "Segregation," I
agree with Dr. D. F. E. in his views
on the subject, for the reason that
fnndameiital facts of history teach
us that as far back as history we can
look vice existed and therefore al
ways will exist
Without much trouble one can find
in almost any part of this city houses
of vice and prostitution. Prostitutes
have scattered to all parts of Chi
cago. Does this not create a tendency to
ward moral deterioration of the
young in these supposed-to-be re
spectable neighborhoods? I say give
us a segregation where the prosti
tutes are registered by the police and
can be confined to a certain district
Then our good girls are not lured by
the temptations of hell. Ed Frost.
GO BACK TO IRELAND. I would
like to ask the girl who signs herself
"A Fighting Irishman" why she does
not go back to Ireland, where she can
have all the fight and hell she seeks.
Her "grandad" probably came to
America because it was at peace.
But the old inherent spirit of the
"tooth and claw" age still possesses
them and they seek to embroil those
who seek peace in their own hellish
desire to everlastingly fight.
I suppose "A Fighting Irishman" is
also a good Christian praying every
day to the "Father in heaven," "Thy
will be done on earth as His in
heaven," and then taking her rifle
and going out to find something to
kill. How many thousands of years
more must it take so-called Chris
tianity to teach us to love our brother
as ourself? A Mother.
WAR THOUGHTS. There are
many queer illusions and many queer
conclusions. Isn't it funny that ev
ery mother thinks her boy right, no
matter what he does? And isn't it
the same with nations?
Why are the Germans and pro- 4b
Germans always considered wrong
and the English and the pro-English
always right? After the war is over
they will all come to the conclusion
that they were wrong and that noth
ing has been gained.
Two dogs were fighting on the
ground, while pussy sat upon the
fence, gazing with fright intense,
hoping for peace serene with glaring
eyes until they turned green; but she
dare not turn around, for fear she
would hit the ground. Poor pussy
who wanted peace. Frank Smith.
FOREIGN RELATIONSHIPS.
May I call the attention of your
proofreader and several of your
Forum contributors to a recent error
which has appeared in print many
times in the past two years; namely,
that the three monarchs, George V.,
William II. and Nicholas II., are all
first cousins?
To establish this relationship the
parties must have a common grand
parent In the case of George and
William, this grandparent was Queen
Victoria; for George and Nicholas,
King Christian DC of Denmark. In
the case of Nicholas and William,
there was no such grandparent
Hence the above first-cousin state
ment is only two-thirds correct
William and Nicholas, however,
did have a common ancestor, Wil-
liam HI. of Prussia, great-grandfa-ther
of the present czar.
It is worthy of note that German,
blood predominates on practically
every throne and in every royal fam
ily in Euprope. The German strain
far exceeds, the. sum total of all otl