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of, THE WORLDS GREATEST NEWSPAPER FOUNDED JUNE I. 1147. In the station at Englewood was not Interested. Or twrhaps he W1 IS interested in the wrung way, A In any case. he is a rotten spot in the Dunce force of this and he should be detected and thrown out.

Ile Is not only an unfit officer. lie 'CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 1921 A LINE 0' TYPE OR TWO Hew to the Line, let the quips fall where they may. 7tow to Keep WM THE DELIBERATOR3 ":1 LA I ICAGO DA I TRIBUNE: 310N DA N'. JAN IJAIIX 10 1921. in the etation at Englewood was not interested.1 (t't)tcago- Or perhaps he W1 interested In the wrung way.

ALINE O' TYPE OR TWO tV: In any ease. he is a rotten Foot in the 'Mice, 7ow' to Ire eP Welio 4) THE WORLD'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER force of this and he shouht be detected and Hew to the Line, let the thrown out. Ile Is not only an unfit officer. lie quips fall where they anoy. 1111: FOUN010 JUNE 111.

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Ir7f. Questions pertinent to hygiene, sanitation. and prevention of disease, if matters of general interest, will be answered in this column. Where apace will not permit or the subject is not suitable, letters will be personally answered. subject to proper limitation, and where a stamped.

addressed envelope is inclosed. Dr. Evans will not make diagnosis or prescribe for individual disease. Requests for such service cannot be ta houlene- aanitftLan nitri ellPyrnti0i1 of if is an unfit citizen. We suspect also that there are more like him in Englewood, where, we understand, the conditions are pretty bad.

-We hope Chief Fitzmorris will 1 gice this district early attention. The snarl on the Englewood station telephone typical of too much of our law enforcement. He explains why the city and its environs have dropped back into a state resembling the dark ages. is an unfit citizen. All onsbileited set.

les. raantereps. letter. and rictures "rot to -1 he Tribune are cent et the owner's risk. the Tribune tontiany repu tunes any liability or responsibility for their ate ouricuty or (titan.

MONDAY. JANUARY 10, 1921. By Dr. W. A.

Evanaj do. but the following night I am all right again. Can you, suggest anything beneficial to do or not to do? "Our Country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong." Stephen Decatur. IIPCoprristit: 1921; THE IRONY OF IRON TONICS. TitErtE are many kinds of anemia.

some of which. quoting a famous medical teacher of fifty years ago, tend to gpt well, others tend to die. A Mist still others go on to the chronic form of the disorder." There is only one medicine taking habit which is more widespread than the take habit and that is the laxative pill habit. I am a little run down. I thin it I will take a little iron." or I am a little pale." or my color is a little bad.

I expect I need a little iron. These are commonly heard I a 1 Tg pi; rdt 1 (' eYi01 7i -43 0 la; L7, 11 114', 17A '714. i 4,4, :11 1 S. 1 5 ,01 'III 8 SO ..7 -c. 0 WE t'UIST thISISON7 i i 1 wE CAM-T-1-- i 'it OW -to morgm'- i A ct 1 -toksT Ivy I ti "nAts 1 erf i No! 1 L.

i Ps.lrf OW To st4 5 016, VAST Ly um wkty- 0 DitAtRg ell l. I 10 NO! 1 I irst 1 1 I Ili .,.0 1 Ifr 1 ho-t A r' 4- I Aft 0 -'1' 1 :1 i 1' ,,,0, ,3, Li 1:1,,,, 0 i If CC' 0 I it l'i, ri- ec, te is: 40,4 id I I. -1 dIV1 Ce'kt kl 113 1)(9J 1 Tv. 0, z- i k.1 0 I f- 0 1 u. 1 THE TRIBUNE'S PLATFORM FOR CHICAGO 1Lessen the iSmoke horror.

2Create Modern Traction $iistent ZItodernize the "Water Department, 4Build Wide Roads Into the All Railroad Terminals. 6Push the Chicago Plan. TO TONY SARG. Tony, dear deity of blocks and irtrings, W'hose hand draws back the curtain of the years! Through cloud and mist of memory appears A happy vision of departed things. Your tiny actors with their gesturings.

Their puppet passions and their mimic fears, Rip and him wife. his dog. his daughter's team Oh what a vanished joy the whole play brings! While little people in your audience Shout out in pleasure at Nick Vedder's fun Or watch grey Hudson's sprites. with features tense. We elders gaze along a vista, whence From our young past there smiles on everyone The kind old features of Joe Jefferson! ANCIICSA.

WE see by an account of a lecture in the East that Major Putnam has been bought with British gold again. Which reminds us that our remittance is three weeks overdue. WILLIE THE TOWN DEMON. From the Bushnell News. There was quite an excitement last night at 12 o'clock when some of the rough boys of the town started to ring the church and school bells.

William Silberere was seen firing his cap gun. WE have just wire1 a request to Mr. Jimmie Whittaker, at Cochrane, to bring home with him a pair of those mameluke dogs," as we think of starting a newspaper zoo. Adventure of a Master 31ind. Sir: In response to an urgent request.

I recently went to Marion. As I reached the w. k. porch I WaS Somewhat embarrassed by the sight of all those other master minds, and for a time in gilence I leaned heavily against a columnyou know how well I do that. Soon, however, -I was Inspired.

stepped boldly forward and threw Eilhu Root off. Then I pushed Hughes's blooming lilacs into the frost blighted ones in the yard. I continued in this course until the lawn was a writhing mass of superlative mentalities. Finally the president-elect noticed It. Whatever are you a-doing of, Stone Phiz?" he Inquired.

Just dustiog the Attic salt off of the front I responded. You know, it was the way I said it. STONE PHIZ. OPEItA goers had a dotible disappointment last Friday night. Mary Garden did not appear, and Carrara failed to sing, between the acts, hew.

k.1 applause-getter. "Carrara-boom-de-ay." 1 CLASSICAL WHO'S WHO. A versatile poet was Quintus II. Flaccus. An excellent man, though acquainted with Bacchus.

He lived in a villa just off the main street. And as "-Horace" was known to the Roman Cite. G. F. B.

MR. MELLON of Pittsburgh is boosted for a cabinet position. Ills friends say he is ripe enough to be picked. 6 i I I. 3.

1 te LI r( re it, oe 6 LI VOICE OF THE PEOPLE I 1 OUR NEGLECTED VETERANS. Dr. Salmon of the Rockefeller Foundation says that no part of the money appropriated for war veterans suffering from disability has been devoted to provision for those whose disability is in the form of mental and nervous disorders. As a result these men are committed to institutions for criminal insane, drug addicts. and degenerates.

Also, men committed to private institutions for want of government accommodations are never visited by officials to see if they are being cared for.properly. This is another phase of the disabled veteran situation which is a disgrace to the administration and to the country. Our soldiers were told they would be our first care. That -was common justice. But our promise was better than our performance.

It is time to make- good. The mishandling of tile vetierans is to a great extent bad management and a bad plan, and this will be corrected in some measure, perhaps entirely. if the bill to consolidate the various agencies dealing with service men is passed and efficiently administered. But we have had experience enough to know that eternal vigilance is the price of efficiency and that vigilance must be the special duty of the American Legion. This in turn raises the question of influence.

Merely to keep track of legislation and administration for soldiers and the public exposure of wrong conditions will do much and is doing much. But it is 3-et to be dernoustrated that the resolution of the Legion to keep out of politics, commendable as it is in theory. may not have to be modified. It is 'true that congress is too often bullied by organizations of special interest and we think there is nothing in our recent history more sinister than the growth of the terrorist inclination of minorities. But if congress' takes advantage of the patriotic restraint and higlimindedness of the Legion to shirk duties which are clearly fixed by the broadest consideration of national welfare and the most elementary principles of public justice.

then the Legion will have to take etVective measures to get the soldier's rights respected, if necessary by organized opposition at the polls to men indifferent to the soldier's legitimate claims. MR. IIARDING'S MILITARY POLICY. The senate committee on military affairs Will reconirnend a resolution directing the secretary of war to suspend enlistments until the regular army has I been reduced to men. Copgressman Kahn of the house committee on military afrairS.

after talking with Mr. Harding in Marion, said that the tiew presidents policy would be to reduce the army to 150,000 men. Mr. Kahn raid that Mr. Harding believes that the country must have a military establishment of great potential strength." This can be the basis of a sound military policy if Mr.

Harding will advorate it earnestly. and if congress will follow his recommendations. A correct military policy does not require the 1 maintenance ot a large force of professional sol- I tilers It requ4res the availability of an adequate REPLY. It le probable that you become too tense. Pia, too bard try to beat immebody.

or In to beat your own recOrd. Instead of e4ghteen boles trY nine. Instead of trying to excel be content to dub. YEN, THERE IS DANGER. Nies.

A. H. T. writes: My husbands mother has tuberculosis. Her mother and father died of it.

Is this always hereditary? My husband Is not Very btrong, but seems to have good lungs. a chest expansion of about 5 inches. lie has had about four attacks of pneumonia. 1. Do you think there is any danger of his having tuberculosiS, or is it apt to develop later? He is 23 years old.

2. Should one be very careful in using towels. dishe s. of the mother? S. If my husband is susceptible, would exereising and good care of his health prevent it? I am irr very good health.

4. NVould there be any danger of my getting it?" REPLY. 1. Yes. Ile rill not be out of the shielow for several years yet.

He must be in the open air a much as possible. Keep up bis health. He must not become overtired. 2. Yes.

See that all towels and dishes' are sterilized after the mother bae timed them. 3. Probably so. 4. Some.

T. B. SYMPTOMS. E. H.

M. writes: Please publieh the first symptoms of tuberculosis." REPLY. Consumption does not always start in the sante way. The following are early eitete toms. Any one of them may be enough to I cause suspicion of consumption enough to cause a careful examination: 1 A slight afternoon rise in temperature.

1 Rapid pulse. Spitting of blood. Pereistent cough. Slight loss of weight. Pallor.

Fatigability or the tendency to tre HERE'S ONE REMEDY. J. L. M. writes: I.

I believe some time ago' you prescribed for excessive sweating in the armpits. also perspiring of the feet. Would you repeat the advice? 2. Would stopping the perspiration be harmful in any way?" REPLY. I.

A '2 5 per cent solution of aluminum chloride in distilled water. Apply cautiously once or twice a week. Do not overdo. tt. No.

not if carefully used by the average The akin of some people Is very sensitive. boweveg, It took a lot of campaigning to get rid of the stomach-tonic-taking custom. At that I am inclined to think the ex- posures of the large amount of alcohol contained in the old time stomach tonics was the largest factor in the reform. How much agitation will be required to overcome the custom of taking iron tonics? When a person is anemic the first question which should be asked is: What is the cause? If the cause is staying too much indoors, the proper remedy is more sunlight. More skating.

rowing, swimming, walking. would do away with much of the use of iron tonics. If the cause Is constipation the remedy is to change the diet. If the cause is periodic hemorrhages the remedy is to relieve that. If the cause Is hookworm the remedy is to get rid of the worm.

If malaria, cure the disease. If the anemia is of a kind which iron will not help there is no use taking that remedy. I Let say that. finally, the proof shows the trouble to be a simple sec. ondary anemia.

Whipple, Hoover, and Robscheit have shown that plenty of good food is the very best form of iron vvhich can be taken. At the very head of their list stood liver. Lean beef was a close wecond and heart third. These meats were eaten cooked. Is there anything to be gained by drinking blood or eating dried blood? This they answer in the negative.

How about beet tea and meat extracts? 'Without beneficial effects. As but limited apace can be given lettere in this department, writers atu confine themselves to 200 or 300 words. Unless theg give their full namfa 4.14 tddresses their letters wilt not be considered. No manuscripts win be returned unless the writer sends postage for that purpose. i tsMer force of trained men to be relied upon in gt ncy.

the kountry uses the restf-ts of Prof. bots work on reinforced concrete. nee are only a few ettectacular A vast volume of other work is being dors in literature. philologY. Perth cation economics.

as well as in ture and et.gineering. all of which amtributee. perhaps even more the advancement of the culture acd kj er life of the Mate. 71118 then. Ls the work or your tution which is the cap-mont of the IFICe Oahe school systemthe training of Id.

000 young citizens for uieful life careers and the advancement of knowleip by systematic investigation. If Tot believe in such work. in its value and tacessity in a democratic society. rive your support. Specifically tell your terator and representatives in the ire nem assembly that you believe in It and the university's reasonable requtmt should be granted.

Davin Kilocurf. Prpoldent tramrProlity of Moen A TO M. H. There must be available the mechanical applb rices of war which cannot be provided in emergeny. They must be on hand.

Ordnance cannot be improvised. Neither can an air service. The filen of expert. specialized. technical classcs cannot be provided in a hurry.

Neither can good ()dicers and noncommissioned officers. To provide a nil inaintain technical equivalent with men trained for its operation does not require the maintenance of a large army in peace times. but such equipment and such expert service Is a part Of the necessary skeleton of an adequate army. -A military establishment of great potential btrerarth. as Mr.

Ilarding describes the American ed, a rf-scrs in civilian life which is (Available and trained to serve when needed. The reserve could be obtain ed by universal military trailirg. which probably will not be undertaken. That Is the most dependable and most effective. bat not the nnly fashion.

There must be available the mechanical rict-s Of war which cannot be pro ided in Bread and milk, cracker meal, rice. potatoes and milk? All fairly good if given in sufficient quantities. Milk is not an iron food and children feed too much on it to get anemia, but it contains a moderate amount if iron and. taken with enough bread, rice. or potatoes, it builds up the blood.

A sugar diet was worse than fasting. Iron tonics of the inorganic iron type were without beneficial effect in the forms of anemia Whipple. Hooper and Robscheit were working with. WE NEED NATIONAL ISLES OF SAFETY. Harry Boland, secretary to Eamonn de Valera (Jr the Irish republic, remained here after De Valera returned to Ire lend.

Last week in Madison Square Garden, in addressing a meeting. he said. as quoted: "If I had my way I would tell the STRING OF M. E. B.

writes: 1. What is streptecoccus and how does it affect one? 2. Do you advise a general or a local anesthetic for the removal of tonsils?" REPLY. I. It is a family of disease producing cocci which bang torether to form ehaine.

Some are very virulent. others not at all so. 2. It is about a standoff. Leave the decision to the man who is to operate.

TAKES GOLF TOO SERIOUSLY. T. W. D. writes: I am about 60 years old and In roud physical condition.

Recently I took up golf as relaxation and exercise. After playing I have observed no unusual fatigue, but lInd I am unable to sleeplhat night as well as I usually WE WILL BE GLAD TO. Vashinron. D. Jan.

THIS TRIBIrNit.1The historical aeakie, of the navy department will cuzisider a favor If you can supply copies of Vs CHICAGO TELIDICNIC of about Dee. 2. MI and subsequent Issues. In which, underetood. there was published tht ter of the German Admiral Scheer's to the kaiser descriptive of the batLe of Jutland.

Any Information that you have on subject which waa not published which you are willing to give tie the historical section will be tf slue. V. D. MacDounktu. Capt.

In Charge rhetorical Sectaw 1 la can be accumulated out of ordinary 1 Irish in America to rise up and tear down everyervice in the regular army. This can be done thing British." by enlistments give one period In active Nit-. Poland is said to have entered the country aerN ice and another in reserve. If 150,000 men without inspection and without a passport, and past--ed through the regular army year and the state department in Washington has begun Into reserve, the United Ftates might have at least an investigation to determine his status. with a a half million men, of service age and fitness.

ob- tiew to returning him to Ireland. tainable from this one source. Mr. Poland merely proceeded upon a general It le the method the Gertnans used to eircum assumption. This country is the natural fighting I FRIEND OF THE PEOPLE Letters for this department must be signed with names and addresses of Me writers.

I think that when thou Avert first born anti came Fresh from the hand of God, there was a sheer And Heavenly quality about thee, Dear, That few clayed spirits have. Thy very name Spells loveliness and like a quiet flame Celled in an alabaster vase, thy love, Sweet as a little child's, asks nothing of The one whose way it lights. The world's loud fame Is but a breath and gold a wasting dross Consumed as cockle in a soul like thine: It is like thee that 'neath thy heavy cross Thou has found place to ease the hurt of mine. Well paid is he for adverse fortune's rods Who bath for friend such a good friend of God's. G.

V. D. GALESBURG'S Hotel Custer has sprung a new one on theegadders. Bub reports that, instead of the conventional Clerk on Duty, Mr. Rae." the card reads: Greeter, Rothe Hawks." WHO is so chatty as the chatty tailor? Writes an Omaha member of the profession: Should you not be in line for duds, you will kindly convey the correct impression of the downward trend.

Prosperous N. Y. to you." Problem of Condoet. Sir: I had dinner with John and Mary the other evening. John and I are nearly brother and sister, being double first cousins.

Mary had been downtown, indulging in the present-day, middle-class method of shopping: that is to say, she looked at the price mark on the articles she wanted, looked at the money she had. and came home. John does not love her any the less because of this method of shopping. but lie deplores the necessity; so after dinne- he tried to exprtss his sympathy by reading the ads to her. I ere are excellent women's Coats at the Boston Store for $19.95." says he.

I won't go there," says Mary. I simply couldn't ask a salesgirl to show me a coat, for an excellent woman." John smiled and turned to Rothschild's ad. What are you looking through the ads for?" asked Mary. Underwear for men that can be relied on?" John looked and was perplexed. He Is a dear cousin, but his mind iswell.

masculine. "Clever, wasn't it? he asked me when Mary left the room. Of course it was a joke and all that, but it was nice the way she said it; and did I really think she meant it? I refused to answer, because my answer might incriminate myself, but told him I would write and ask you to help him, for all the Line fans know that you are a smart man and read learned books about affairs feminine and feminist. Now, please, won't you teach this perplexed male how to determine whether Mary is Joshing him or trying to be nice? ELIZA.BETII. TIIE effort of W.

S. to explain things to his boss has got him in deeper. Among gadders, reminds vent Napoleon's restriction of the Prussian army. ground for European controversy. The modern lilt short enlistments and intensive training, the and practical European theory is that fighting army to overthrow Napoleon was acquired 1 should be done on the land of somebody else.

We in pite of hi of German military de- Americans are the only ones who believe in tight) eh pment. ing in defense of our land on our own soil, so that Mere are otlAt-r SOUrCuS of reserves. The citizen- i no matter what happens American towns and INORITT WAGES. Chicago. Jan.

S.To the Legal Friend of the have a boy 19 years Old. He works. but he doesn't give rue any money, and two or three nights a week he stays out. Is he not compelled to give me money until he Is 21 years old and then pay me board? J. C.

THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: ITS SERVICE AND ITS 5EEDS. Urbana-Charnpaign IlL. Jan. of The TribunelA good many citizens have learned that the University of Illinois Is asking for a large PUM of money for operation and development during the next a year. Very properly they are asking whether it really needs so much money.

what it proposes to do with it: above ail. what return it can make to the state. I wish to answer these questions for the readers of Tuz TRIBUNE. First and foremost. the university is annually training 10.000 young men and women for useful careers.

It offers not only a general college course but specialized training for over a score of professions: Teaching. journalism. general business, accountancy. banking. insurance, railway administration.

Industrial administration, foreign commerce. commercial and civic secretaries, chemistry. ceramics. architecture. civil.

electrical. mechanical. mining. municipal, sanitary, and railway engineering. general agriculture, farm organization and Management.

floriculture. landscape gardening. borne economic', library work. athletic coaching. music (voice.

piano. violin, and organ), law, medicine. ilentistrY, and pharmacy. In all these various lines it must give its students the latest. best, and most practical kind of training.

In doing so It employs a faculty of nearly a thousand highly trained men and women. It maintains a library of half a million volumes, which ought to be a million. It 'operates (heats, lights, and cleans) over fifty buildings. which IIICIOSP. besides lecture halls.

classrooms, and offices, several scores of laboratories. And when say laboratory." please do not think merely of a room with certain specially equipped desks and curious apparatus. Several of these laboratories are full fledged engineering shops. Into one of them locomotive engines are run to be hooked to a wall and then, with the throttle wide open. tested for speed, fuel consumption.

and various kinds of strains. Another laboratory is a farm of a thousand acres, incitsding wheat fields and corn fields, vegetable plots. orchards, and greenhouses. and the housing for herds of beef cattle. dairy cattle.

horses. sheep. swine, and poultry. Others Include a city milk route: a cafeteria; a laboratory of statistics, equipped with calculating machines; medical and dental dispensaries; and a model and practice high school. for which we have the building but not the money to furnish and operate it.

Do you begin to see where the money goes? And what we return to the state when we graduate a thousand men and women each June who have had four years of such training? But this is not all. Besides this teaching, it Is the business of a university to conduct Investigations for the purpose of Increasing the volume of human knowledge in as many fields aP possible. The war has revealed to the whole country the pressing need for more knowledge In countless directionsin all branches of physical science, in engineering. agriculture, economics. What can the university do to meet this need? Take a few examples.

It has developed a new variety of wheat which. on a five year average. has out-yielded its predeoessor by six bushels to the acre. Illinois had last year 2.440,- 000 acres in wheat. Figure for yourself the value of that one achievement to the state.

Through the soil investigations of Prof. Hopkins. the yield of corn. our greatest crop. which was gradually declining.

is now rapidly increasing. The university Is completing a soil survey of all the farm lands of the state, on the basis of which land is now bought and sold. Prof. Parrs experiments on the coking of low grade coals promise to make valuable millions of tons of coal formerly worthless. Every builder in i holt MORE WORK AT LTS4 PAT AID BUILDING.

Chicago. Jan. of The Trhune.1In your editorial of Monday. Ism 3. headed To Build Blisinem you WI attention to the lack of building perk.

Cons in Chicago. You do rot seem to, find a eolution. I can suggest one. As a rule you are inclined to talk against capital and largoly In favor of labor. The arain who writes the editorials overlooks.

as mentioned nit a previous letter. that laborenters largely into the cost of everything Tnitnear- tured. Manufacturing houses is lust the eame proposition again. Suppoee you suancest that labor. InneAl asking $1.25 an hour.

work for taf the price. Based upon practical busins" figuring. labor would earn more if it were employed fairly well throughout the mer and fall in building operations We It there was spasmodic building Wei; upon the high price of labor. Preactir4: something like this wia be of adrentRy if you have the courage to ezpress Notify his employers that he is a minor and that they must pay his wages to you. TILIBI'NE LAW DEPAILINENT.

sPOTLIESS TOWN sTICFF. Chicago. Jan. 8.To the Friend of the you tell us what rights tenants have when the janitor dcrfs not wash steps for over a month? i.We have complained continually to the landlord in regard to this matter. but he does not seem to be able to do anything about it.

Our front doors are usually a disgrace together with the condition of the unserubbed halls. We are supposed to be paying for janitor service. but the only service we get is heat and hot water. Is there not some remedy for such a condition as this A DisGusTEn TENANT. fore peace is declared.

Why cannot this money be refunded to me. If paid now in Germany at the present rate of exchange it will represent a value of less than $1 and I consider this very unfair to them. J. S. If the delay was due to the fault of the government we agree that you should get back reexchange as of the date when the money order should have been received.

You will have to work the matter out with the posioffice officials. TRIBUNE LAW DEPARTMENT. DEFECTIVE Chicago, Jan. the Legal Friend of the People.We signed a one year lease and took possession of our flat on May 1, 1920. The Commonwealth Edison company rendered a bill for $26.04 for current consumed between the dates May 3 and July 26.

1920. This is an excessive charge. the normal charge per month for current used being about $2. The C. E.

company attributes the high reading to a defect in wiring, but the cause of such grounding is not known to us. The C. E. company informs us that It repair department remedied the trouble, but its claim department informs us that the owner or agent of the building should pay the cost such repairs. It also expresses the Opinion that said owner or agent is liable for current consumed by this defect in wiring.

We compromised with the company. paying one-half of the bill. 1. Have we any recourse in collecting this amount from the owner of the building? 2. May we legally deduct a proportionate amount for this overcharge from our monthly rental? A.

N. Depends on the nature and origin of the defect. TRIBUNE LAW DEPARTMENT. 1 Depends on the wording of the lease. TRIBUNE LAW DEPARTMENT.

which is willing to take the national guard countryside will be thoroughly blown up. teaining is one eource. The high Felloot and col- Europe does not believe in fighting en its own lege training is another eource. It ought to be nos- parlor. and so why not ours? If the Irish rise Up to coerdinate all the methods of training so in the United States and tear down everything that a really reneroue supple! of men accustomed English, the English may rise up and try to tear to arms would be available In the United States.

down everything Iriele The Jugo-Slava would be is not difficult for the United States to main perfectly justified in rising up and tearing down lain the military establishment it may require. We everything Italian and the Italians in proceeding know the temper of the country Is against a great to exterminate everything Serbian. Croatian, and legular army, and fortunately military policy does Slovene. The Germans might destroy everything Polish to get even for the Danzigsorridor and the itot require one. It is fortunate for such a country as the United States that if everything else is avail- Pole take it out on the Russians.

able the infantry arm, If it has a good ekeleton This i a great little country and probably it ferm, can be improvised. The country objects to will be all right just so long as the Chinese do not the maintenance in peace of the infantry which rise up and tear down everything Japanese. This ould be needed in war. We do not believe that it will be going too far. The Japanese might not like sv it It aijects to the upkee of the technic would not matter.

of course, whether we did al branches or not. We are here at our own peril. Or could and the expert service, or to the development of a civilian reserve. we have some neutral strips of territory in the United States a America? Some isles of safety? It is unfortunate that congressmen persist in regarding the A. F.

as a reserve. It Is true that the country has more trained men now than it ever before had in peace lime, and many of them would i Editorial of the Day I feel an obligation to come forward again in time of need. but it must be remembered ered tat sch as do I is ill not come forward sie privatee but as officers. WILL it A ET "ME FROM! 1W. L.

George. And rightly, too. They have had expelienee and in Harpers Magazine if they go into atiother war they are going io have You can visit in America a city of a hundred thou-promotion upon their experience. There ought to i sand inhabitants and find there better shops, better be no obligation on them to go baek into tile ranks. goods, more artietie stuffe, more attractive furniture, What a lazy and unjust nation it WOUld be that in unexpected spot, a more ivid culture than in xeected a particular class of its citizenship to any English town.

eVealth leads to aristocracy out of tiglit another war merely because It had had the eealth America iv ili breed hers. The poor aristocrat idtter Experience of fighting a. previous Out is a popular elusion. Indeed, an aristocrat may be although there bad come up since their experience poor, but lie must be the son or the grandson of an tther groups of millions of young men of military aristocrat eho was rich. Without wealth aristocracy tit ness cannot survive: without wealth It cannot be born.

We must thinit we create red a favor on the 'a MI fought in France and that they owe their Wealth does not necessarily create aristocracy. but It eountry some can do so. I feel that the aristocracy of America mere than the mere civilian owes it. Their country owes them. among other debts.

will not be maintained out of the elegancies of Rostov. tile debt of protecting itself better than it was pro. or the languors of South Carolina, but is being born, 1 tected when they were needed. This protection born of alit rugged. fierce stock of the middle west.

After all, the early aristocrats. the Normans and 1, can be given by a small regular army, a potentially the vrusaders. toe, were kid-eloved neither in their rreat military establishment, and adequate morale nor their manners. men with the necessary technical experts in ellem- The reader will realize from the foregoing that air, and artillf ry warfare. f-- I Editorial of the Day 'HERE WILL OI AltIsTOCRWY COME FROM? 1W.

L. George. in liarper-s Magazine. You can visit in a city of a hundred thou- sand inhabitants and find there better shops, better goods, more artieth! Ft more attractive furniture, and, in unexpected spots, a more ivid euiture than in v.ti.1.,,. 1, any English town.

NVealth leads to aristocracy out of uealth Arnertea iti breed iiers. The poor aristocrat is a popular illusion. Indeed, an aristocrat may be poor, but lie must be the son or the of an aristocrat who was rich. Without wealth aristocracy cannot survive: without wealth it cannot be born Veit Ith does not necessarily create aristocracy. but It can do so.

I feel that the aristocracy of America will not be maintained out of the elegancies of Bostop or the languors of South Carolina, but is being born, born of the rugged. fierce stock of the middle west. After all, the early aristocrats. the Normans and the crusaders. too, were kid-Gloved neither in their i morals nor their manners.

The reader will realize from the foregoing that I have not the envious One of Pem. it is known that hotel maids do not re- port for their regular duties until 7:30 a. REFINED CRUELTY. Sir: A in in Atlanta coarsely announces: Lynch the Tailor." If the poor tailor must bumped off. would it not be more refined to send him to the Oratorio Barber Shop in Chicago' C.

E. It OR he might be hentenced to six months in the i barber shop of Peter Yell in Palo Alto. "WE trust." another communication concludes, "3-our further consideration of the supporting ref-. erenees will thoroughly cover and satisfy vour erro trences will thoroughly cover and satisfy your AS TO GERMS AND OTHER TRINfik Chicago. Jan.

of Tb ToleUnejWe have In Chicago a splettel. demonstration of autocratic medical dem- 4 ination expressed in the highiy distater'-, ed water we are forced to use from III city water system maintained by tile Is it not strange that 3.090.004 teas pie can be forced to aceept the dklint of a handful of men whose theoriet tar' never been proven absolute in retard public health? A few years ago it was taught in Cu' trsining schools for nurses that it wb1 imPossible to use a disinfeotant strong enough to destroy germs which welfil' not also destroy human life. Is It ble that the mueh talked of Pro Ireo medicine has discovered that a dis nfectant that will destroy' a Seit Jot affect human life? (If the doctor Sart SO) At It is a question as to which germ is t114 most deadly to public health and nes.s, a political octopus or a Ofta 31arrnawe Moss. ADOPTED CHILDREN. Chicago.

Jan. the Legal Friend of the People3---Is att adopted child a legal heir in the eyes of the law of Iowa? Could an adopted child, in case of the death of his foster parents. come In for their share of an estate left them by their parents (Iowa law)? Can a stepson or-daughter be adopted legally by step-parents? Would lie have to take their name and eould he use his own name in ordinary transactions of lite but that of his foster parents in signing legal documents? E. A. T.

1. In feneraL yes. if ally adopted. 2. Depends on how it was left.

Do probably would share unleso there was a will so worded as to exclude him. 3. Yes. 4. Not 5.

Yes. TRIBUNE LAW DEPARTMENT. POSTAL ORDERS. Chicago. Jan.

the Legal Friend of the People.In June. 1916. I sent St. order for 62 marks and 76 pfennigs (SIZi.00) to Germany. This money was never received by party in Germany.

I have made inquiries at the postortice only to be told that nothing can be done be ncous anticipation." COMMON LAW ISSUE. Chicago, Jan. the Friend of, the People.1In case of the death of a man having considerable means, would i a woman who has lived as his common i law wife and who has been Introduced as hits wife, be entitled to inherit any part of his property? Would a child born to that couple be lerally entitled to receive any part of this property? Bot questions being subject to the fact of his having died without leaving any will. S. M.

No to both aadlIMIW, that the Wad not contracted in a tate which reelDrTlia011 tsOMMOn law ntarriaro. TRIBUNE LAW DEPARTMENT. ASONG. Counting am .1 the days now When I shall hear again Robins on many a bough. Singing to weary men.

the dark bough shall bud; Hearing. shall I rejoice, 1-celing my fountains of blood Leap to their cheery voice. counting tin't the nights long. In-ranting dreams of mine own, uning and crooning a song For the first crocus blown. LA URA BLA CR AND THE DAYS ARE SO SHORT.

J. irrom Punch Ight) I MEMORY TESTS Can You Answer These? 1 gs 4 -7" ,016110 4,04 ,,,0 Li 0' .,0 -IV a I I- joined faintly clamor against the middie west. The middle west, by the fact of its novelty, shows its seamy side the dust of ages. which has tilled the tit'AIIIS of Paris anti London town. has not had time to inane for the west a glossy our' face.

And so the east, with 300 years behind it. Is more acutely constioua of Chicago than the foreigner can be. Certainly, from the eastern point of view. Chicago is what you might call diflicult. I can understand that a banking family in Manhattan, barking back to bankers of New Amsterdam, dislikes the unashamed boosting which Chicago indulges In.

Chit'lgO is the man at arms of Modern industry; that has to be remembered when you criticize it at work or at leisure. It has a passion for fact; a passion for realities malleable as cement before they are applicd to industry. bard as cement in the end. is prouder than Boston because it is surer of Itself. It has built its castle upon the futurefor Chicago a secure foundation.

That is why is no peace in Chicago. and why, if ever Chicago attains peace, It will be the nefarious peace of a termination. A to La Follettes Magazine signed by IV. E. T.

S. Nurse, N. T. City. What ik the for?" The Bleeder 'Iles.

rd rather ride atop a bus Than any- other placf: So every little passing twig Can hit me in the face. i ,4.114 lS-- c' r1-73 1 I PfT111, i. I 1 ...1 I 1 1- tLI-'4 'r 1, I rcIA -LLA i 91 tN-- I rv-i 1 i ''N ,..,1 4" II 4-- i ,1 111 i 1 I 1 1 Aii, tv. --et --1- 1 -1 ss3 1 -1. 1 it i- st EY, I 7 I Ex, to, If 1 wily LIFE IS UNSAFE IN rm afraid this Eddie 'Morris is waiting outside the house to hold up my husband when he conies Lome.

Le knows my husband carries collections high as $5.000. Youd better send some One quick" was the appeal Mrs. Welch says she sent 4esst the telephone to the Englewood station. and Assm le what she says she got in reply: -a 9.eu. youd better call up the Crossing sta.

1 and tell thent about it." and the receiver was 7 tr-t'-- A arv ..1 -A1--, 46,.. i. 1 tvt A-4. I 1 I 7.,. -Z? ell '1 Ul I tre la; a 1117,40 ail 1 7- T--f ---r-r.

Lle 44 ul i ito ,3,.1 1 1: ekr, --4, 1 VI I. 777, 7.4.. 0 tx ,.) i i 't I ori 1 -ow ru, :414.,7 t) Tk of Paris. the white is the color France. 3.

In what 3-ear was the -oundation of Yale college New liaven, 1701. 4. 'What Nlassachusetts town wi.s intimately connected with the practice 1 of witchcraft? Salem. 5. About how many members formed the "rump" narliament? About sixty.

C. was Charles I. executed '1 At Whiteliall in London. 7. What a-as the date of the gunpowder plot, Nov.

5. 160. 8. What man was closely COntivettNi with the gunpowder plot? Guy FawkPs. 9.

How many times was Henry VIII married? Six times. 10. What price waa paid for Manhaz, tan island in Peter milt pur chased Manhattan island for 924 and founded the settlement of New VARIOUS FACTS. 1. Who was Euclid? 2.

What is the feminine of the name Eugenius? 3. By what name is Rome sometimes designated? 4. Who was the father of Jezebel. the wife of Ahab. king of Israel? 5.

What is the "Dunmow Flitch 6. What was the battle of the Dunes? 7. Which might be caned the most popular of the no4eli by Duman pre? S. What name is sometimes riven to the sea by poets. as by Virgil? Who wrote -Don 10.

Who was Dionysus? IIISTORY-ANSW ERS. 1. Who was Marie Antoinette? The daughter of Maria Theresa of Austria. She married Louis XVI. of France.

2. What is the signilicance of the French flag. the tricolor? The blue and red in the tricolor are the colors 7 4 I Ti 1...,. 110 4.1c I A 1,1 Q. A.

R. SUNDRY subscribers have advised us that the date line shows on the reverse of the Line's heading. Yes, sometimes. It Is a question of the page registering in the pressroom. "TO Frank J.

Wilstach: Cut 'igand of the seashore out of Dictionary of Similes. Substitute as numerous as a bank or trust company's P. A. WE. too, find Mr.

Wilstach's Dic. o. and have, jotted down. a long string of substitutes. EXAMPLES: Dark: Dark as the'-inside of a Marshall Field bus.

Noisy: Noisy as a Ford in neutral. L. T. I '''oe- ti 310' .7.1., a re A.1:,:,--,---....4.7.,,...1-:.:.-1, 4-. 7 AC.

4 i.4 1, ..1 )3 2.,..... V' tirl 4 -4 0 1 tr lk, 1., -0 -------44---- 7, waattat i Vicar's Wife: The vicar 'was abking only this morning ally )0A "er in the habit of kttentling Latebt Inhabitant: Veil. you bee. it does ear cut into one StIndSYS. fig up Eddie Morris was wanted on suspicion of killing or being implicated In the killing of a brother oat.

0- er of the man, whoever lie was, who lazily bhunted a woman's appeal for help to another otation. Morris is a notorious gunman and his c-apture was a duty of the police. But the officer serfill 1 I 4.