Jll, 0 THE OREGON DAILY JOUKN PORTLAND; FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 10, 1903. THE 6 Rj E Q 6 N : T DAILY JOURNAL ; if: C;S. JACKSON. EDlTOMcAL COcTWoMENT cAND TIcTWELY TOPICS minnit DALLY Jfoutmal HTMf IMMIGRATION HAS DONE (By Henry George, Jr.) ( I JOURNAL PUBLISHING COMPANY, Prdprictors. ArfrfrcMi THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, Fifth and' Yamhill St Portland, Or. CITY OFFICIAL PAPER. AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER. cent; II to 38 pages, t Entered at the Postoffice of Portlnnd, Oregon, for transmission through the malls" as second-cla: matter. Postage for single coplrs For an S. 1Q, or 12-pnee paper, 1 cents; over 28 pa gee, I centa. TULL-PHO.NESi Business Office Or ;jon. Main 600; Columbia, 703. Edltorla' Rooms- Oregon Main 260. SUBSCRIPTION Terms by Carrier. The Dally Journal, one year 15.00 The Dallr Journal els month .'. 2.60 The Dally Journal three months 1.30 The Dally Journal, by the week 10 RATUSi Terms by Mail. 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Neither can the trades-unions succeed In this way, for the worklngmun has no power to put up wages as fast as the Industrial baron can put up prices; one Is accomplished with endless pain and difficulties, the other is almost automatic. The great energy and power that have counted In the organisation of trades- unionism,- and the narrow efforts of separate bodies to Increase wages, must be 'diverted afld directed Toward the laws and Industrial Institutions of the country, so that production will be more bountiful and . distribution more equitable. Clarence S. Darrow. - - ' THE DALLES WAS FIRST ' The Dalles people deserve their wide repu tat Ion for good deeds of head and heart and they have greatly added to It In being the very first to extend aid and succor to the . survivors of the Heppner flood, the relief workers from The Dalles being the first to ' reach Heppner and go to work In the cause nt the llvln and dead, after the news of the calamity reached "the outside world. Other towns were prompt, but The Dalles -was promptest, and The Journal finds it a duty and a pleasure to chronicle It. L WH Y- IS PAYNE RETAINED? -Wtiv does Henry C Payne continue to hold the office of Postmaster-General of the 'United States? ' is there anything In his record since he assumed charge of the Posteffice Depart - ment to warrant his retention. In view of the revelations of wholesale corruption among . his subordinate officials?, T , ,.As the head, of the department, Mr. Payne must be held -responsible for the malfeas- ' ance which has been disclosed, unless he is "to-be regarded as a mere dummy, Incom petent to attend to the business, of which he la supposed to be in charge. The, only ex planation ever offered for the selection of Mr. Payne for the office which he' holds is that he was expected to look after the President's political Interests. His long ex perience in practical politics, his supposed , familiarity with the arts .by, which warring factions are harmonized and political con ventions are manipulated, was the com monly accepted reason for his appointment. It was never pretended that Mr. Payne had any other peculiar qualifications for the of fice of Postmaster-General. His whole past Ii an effective contradiction to the theory that he was expected to run the postal ser vice on those principles of civil service re form which Mr. Roosevelt at one time so . earnestly advocated. Assuming that Mr. Payne was In fact contsantly protesting that no serious wrong doing had occurred, his demeanor has been that of a man who looks forward with panic and dread to the revelations that the morrow may bring forth. Bribery, blackmail, forgery and corruption have run riot In the Postoffice Department since Mr, Payne was placed at its head. Hi administration, measured by plain business standards, has been an utter and a disgrace ful failure. In any great commercial enter prise such incompetence as he has shown would ensure Instant discharge. Why, then. Is Mr. Payne retained In hli office? Perhaps the President had some reason, but to the general public the ques tion must, seem unanswerable. It is true that Mr. Payne is a close personal and po litical friend of Mark Hanna, but even Mr. Hanna's friendship should not suffice to re tain him In the position in which he has made so signally a failure. If the postoffice Investigation is to be thorough and honest, let Mr. Payne be dis missed at once. THE COUNTY SCANDALS It is well for the people of Multnomah County to remember that the Investigation Into the affairs of the county is still In prog ress and that the County Clerk's depart ment Is not the only one to undergo Inspec tion. The work of examining the records Is tedious one, but It Is being done thor oughly. There is strong reason to believe that the disclosures yet to come will be quite as sensational as those already made. The rottenness was not confined to any sin gle department. The litigation which has already been commenced is but the beginning of the fight to recover the funds lost to the county through past mismanagement or dishonesty. If the county is-successful in these suits, It will have comparatively little trouble in re-, covering in other instances. It is to be ex pected that these Initial suits will be car ried to the Supreme Court for final adjudica t Ion, and many months must therefore. "The Judicious restriction of Immigration would be a popular measure in the next Congress," says one of our large dallies, "nndlt will be surprising If it is not seised as an issue in the next Presidential canvass." This statement would probably And many an echo at this time. Let us, then, look Into the Immigration question. - . At the outset it should be noted thai there is a tremendous flood of Immigration this year. Indeed, 103 will probably , equal, if it does not exceed, the record Immi gration year of 1882, when 800,000 aliens came to these shores and were admitted. But the nature of the Immigration has greatly changed from that of 21 years ago. William Williams, Commissioner of Immigration at the port, of New York, who has submitted t6 an Interview at length on the immigration. question, says, as to the difference In the Immigrants In 1882 and now: ' '.. "A glance at the records for 1882 shows that In that year Germany sent. 250,000, Great Britain and Ireland 180,000, and the Scandinavian countries lOfLOOO people, or in round numbers 535,000 Immigrants. That year Italy sent us only 32,000, Austria 30,000 and Russia 21,000, the total from these countries being 83.000. Twenty years later what Is the situation, as disclosed by the records? Germany sent us last year 28,000, Great Britain and Ireland 40,000 and Scandinavia 64,000, or a total of 128,000 people, while on the other hand Itnly sent 180,000, Austria 170,000 and Russia 107,000, the aggregate number of arrivuls from these three .countries reaching a grand total ot 457,000. The situation, then, is that whereas 20 years ago the Anglo-Saxon, Teutonic and Scandinavian Immigration was extremely heavy, today it has dwindled to almost insignificant propor tions, while the influx from the other countries has Increased 'by leaps and bounds. and as yet shows no signs of decreasing. "It is conceded that Immigration has been a tremendous factor in the upbuilding of the grout Western section, of our country. We all know that the Northwest is greatly in debt to the Old World for her growth, bur at the same time" we must remember that tlmt condition Is not due to the simple fact that hundreds of thousands of foreigners have been coming over annually, but to the additional fact that those people who came from Great Britain, Germany and Scandinavia were agriculturists, and more closely resembled In blood traditions and Ideas our own people than do the people of any other European countries. From these facts It Is therefore almost certain that had the immigration of a score of years ago been from the countries which are now send Ing so many Illiterate people into our great cities, the United States would not today be enjoying Its present civilisation." ' Commissioner Williams, In classifying these Immigrants, says that of the 700,000 aliens who landed at New. York lust year, about 3,000 were of the' professions, 60,000 were skilled workmen, 420,000 were unskilled laborers, while 130,000 were women and children without any occupation. And where do these people go? That he regards as an Important question.' He answered it in this way; - . ... , . ... . "Seventy per cent of them stayed In the East, settling in New York, New Jessey, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. The West did not get quite 10. per cent, while the South received only about two per cent The statistics sho that this great stream of Immigration is a city influx, and that the great bulk of the new-comers do not go, and cannot be persuaded to go, into the unsettled portions of the country for the purpose of developing them, as did the people who came over 20 years ago," The Commissioner says that the new settlers do not and bannot be persuaded to go into the unsettled parts of the country, and that tabout 80 'Out' of I0,'0OO' aliens become, objects of charity, while in the case of the native-born people' the percentage Is only nine In lO.Ouo. Now these tatements need some examination. . .Why'fis'" It that 70per cent of these Immigrant stop In the cities and do not go into if1' newer" parts e-f the country and "grow up" with them, as did the former Immigrants? ; We are accustomed to have that answered off hand: "The class of immigrants has changed. Those who came formerly wre desirous of getting farms which they' Coul,d themselves work and on which they could live. The majority of those who come tiow have no such desire; on the contrary they want to stop in our larger cities." '' v' That looks as though It ought to be a proper answer to the question, but It really explains nothing. Why have the farmers stopped coming; to us, and why are the city denizens now coming? Of course, there must be some reason for this. It seems to me that the reason is plain. Either this country now 'holds out different inducements to those it formerly offered or else social and political .conditions are hardening' In new places abroad, which drive their people forth to seek, new countries in increasing numbers. t '' Now we know well that the conditions in Italy and Southern. Russia have been very severe of late years. In Italy the tax burdens havbecome monstrous. The United Slates is like a tax-free country beside It. The" burdens of taxation there .fall with . crushing burden upon the poor. . There is.po reason -why Italy should not.jproduce a really great and prosperous people. She once sent forth conquerors of the world, "who gave It the Latin tongue, stamped upon it the Roman law and enveloped it In a Roman peace. When the Roman empire rotted within and the "barbarians" came down frorp the north . and sized the Roman state, there was a long darkness, followed by a new burst of splendor during the Middle Ages, and subsequently. The Italian people today would Bhlne in arts and letters and doubtless, too, in the realm of science, and invention, as has one of her oung sons, Marconi, who has sent his name high among the inventors of the century. Italy might become that new Italy, that glorious world-helping Italy,? of which the famous Italian political philosopher and patriot, Joseph Mazzlnl dreamed and wrote, and for the bringing of which he gave the zealous efforts of a blameless life. But to attain this, Italy must have a people living in social equity. Private monop olies must not rob the people until they drive thousands from their native shores to seek more propitious conditions in a foreign land. The United States does not give what It formerly did to the immigrant, but even now it undobutedly seems to hold out to tens of thousands of Italians, and does, Indeed, give them better opportunity for development thah they can at this time get in Italy with its increasing political and economic hardships. So they come among us by the shipload. DEARTH OF MASTERS IN AMERICAN LITERATURE A writer in one of the June magazines la ments that neither American poetry nor American prose literature Is up to Old World standards. Our culture, he asserts, Is false, In poetry, while our low state of taste leads us to prefer the fourth-rate verse, says he, our egregious assumption of good taste leads us to exploit it. As to prose, he will not pause to ask what name from our own pri vate Hall of Fame we are to Insert among the foremost In belles-lettres, such Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Rabelais, Goethe, Chaucer, Shakespeare. He will propose an easier test and broaden thb list of entries. "I add," he writes, "Sophocles, Caldron and Rojas, Bocasslo, Mollere and Balsao, Mar lowe, Milton and Keats, Scott, Defoe, Turf eneff, Landor and whom of our own? Temerarious fondness (not necessarily American this time) might present Emerson. And in goes Emerson; b,ut rot but not Emerson, the poet The test is still ma liciously hard. Let me make it less crucial by proposing merely the literature of the nineteenth century. Whom shall we offer T The literature in English of the "ceYitury. In this narrower field, and making our choice generous, suppose we say, Emerson, Haw thorne, Whitman; Foe, Lowell, (not the poet," but our graceful essayist). Cooper and Irv ing. There Is a showing we may well be satisfied about, especially when we add that of this list Emerson, Poe and Whitman (and Vom the century before. Franklin), and to a lesg degree Cooper and Irving, have not ably influenced individual foreign writers, if seldom groups. So Justly we may be satis fied, that there Is no call for boasting besides of the flnt things we have not produced,v"rH' y'r" ; . "' ' ' .' :-While, it is a? fact thai the United Stalest has not produced writers great enoush to'1 match the foremost In all literature. 6r In Enrllsh literature ' nr vn th tJU TCnrtlaii writers of the nineteenth century, this coun- ,t try haa brought out great number of men that xan write exceedingly good ' Ehgll: h, ' These, men' are employed mostly in journal- Ism, where the remuneration Is good, i- though the reward in fame Is small. Tho great majority of, them ; write anonymously and prefer anonymity.' . They deal In the main' with transitory"-end even ephmer matters, and although they exert a great in fluence on contemporary opinion, their work Is not of permanent Interest The 'news papers have attracted to their unsigned columns many of the most virile pens and personalities in literature. .There seems to be less and less need for great writers who shall starid out head and shoulders above their contemporaries. ". ' -V ' Poetry is In eclipse on both sides of ttw Atlantic, This Is distinctly an age of proro. Nobody writes poetrytftfbody reads It Pet -haps our culture has passed beyond th craving for metrical expression which is the expression, of youth. - Poetry preceded pros In the evolution of literature. Perhaps, on the contrary, other great poets shall rise up among us and lead our truant steps back to Olympus. The best we can do is wait and watch developments. '""placed at the-Eead of this-department for the purpose of doing politics In the Interest of the President. It may be asked whether he has fulfilled this mixslon with such a de gree of success as will warrant his reten- " tion. There Is no doubt that the Postofllce Department Is being converted Into an ad junct to the Republican machine as rapidly as the transformation can be effected. But i this being accomplished In such a way as to ald7Mr. Roosevelt's' ambition for another term in the White House? Evidently not. Any 'practical" politician of ordinary com mon sense could have told Mr. Payne that the introduction of politics into the depart ment must be--accomplished without any flagrant scandals and without .permitting widespread corruption. Otherwise the ex posure, sooner or Inter inevitable, would .so arouse popular Indignation as to result dis astrously both to the President and to his advisers. So far from being of assistance to President Roosevelt in his campaign for an other term, Mr. Payne's administration of his department lias proved Ihe most stag . gering blow that the President could 'tiavc received. Viewed therefore as a i;oli(iiaI manager, Mr. Payne has been a complete and Igno minious failure. If measured by the standard commonly applied to the head of a great department, either of government or of business, the Postmaster-General is again found wanting. His department bus been virtually without a head. - His subordinates have run the busi ' Iicss of their various bureaus -without even the pretense of consulting him. He has been lit absolute Ignorance of the details of the management of the department. He has been a mere figure-head and in .the. Invest -Igatlon.tiow In progress he has been ignored by his subordlnaten,.who J&ive been reporting directly to the' President instead of to their nominal chief. Mr. Payne's attitude through out the investigation has been well de scribed as one of nervous expectancy. While Likewise Is it with people In the southern part of Russia. The bureaucracy in that country bears with a crushing weight upon them, and added to that a large part of them are subjected to religious and racial persecution. The Jews are a people of such ten acious character that through all the vicissitudes of centuries they have preserved, vivid and glowing, much of the spirit of their ancient teachings. Moreover, they are born tradejg..qJLhesIruggleor suffer assimilable. They do not at once speak the common language of this country; thejali are at the outset Ignorant of our manners and customs; they have, perhaps, only the faintest notion of our principles of government. But they soon learn much, and their N children go to our public schools and grow up citlsens in all these senses. Intermarriage does more, so that the offspring of a despised Syrian or a peddler from Cairo becomes eligible for election to the Presidency of the United States, just as descendants of Irish, Scottish, English and other Immigrants have been so eligible, and some of which have actually been so elected. There Is good reason for taking every precaution to keep out Immigrants having contagious diseases. But these cannot be a large percentage, as the steamship lines will not knowingly carry them. Nor need we really have much fear of the importation of revolutionary elements. If our social conditions are really such as o afford every man who wants to make his living an opportunity to make it easily, and if our political conditions are really free and not corrupt and oppressive, then revolution, give It what name you may, can make no head among us. Revolutionary Anarchists, Nihilists or men of any other philosophical and political views might come here and would be tamed by Jhe ease of life and the democracy of surroundings. But if the political corruption should abound here as In the countries of Europe, political equality would then, so far as Its ordinary practical working was concerned, be merely nominal. If, taking all things under consideration, there should be as much difficulty in reaching the higher standard of living here as In reaching the lower standard of the European countries, then not only will foreign seeds of revoiution, despite all precautions, enter and germinate here; but we ourselves will .begot social "rvoluHonlsts. Booth was not a foreigner. Guiteau was not a foreigner. Czolgoss was not a foicigncr. The iatter was native born, edveated in the public schools, had worked in a number of American cities and had a brother in the American army. Then why should there be ,va Judicious restriction of . Immigration," which the news paper"! quoted at the .outset believed "would prove a popular policy In this country? We are now being well protected against foreign contagious diseases. We cannot hope to keep our revolutionary elements, for these consist of states of mind, and a man does not wear them on the outside like clothes. Besides, did circumstances exist here that, would give root to foreign importations of this kind, these same circumstances would breed indigenous varieties that lie dormant in times of peace and plenty. - Then why restrict immigration? Because, it may be said, there is not enough employment for thpse that, are here and the multitudes that may wish to come? How preposterous is sucha statement! All that is needed to make for true and lasting civilization 1b td let man with his hands and faculties have access to, nature; then to keep the tax gatherer tff his back and special privileges from robbing nim. He will work, and' work hard. He will sow and he will reap. He will delve and he will discover. He will add knowledge to knowledge, and a race of gloriously enlightened free men Will, under such circumstances, develop from a race of Ignorant, groveling slaver-. Free nature to man, and man will emancipate himself. If we should do that in this country our desire would not then be to restrict immigration, but to encourage It, provided always that the Immigrants could be assimilated, that is, if admitted in large numbers, they could be taken Into the policy and made a homogeneous part of it; could Intermarry with our people and become as one with the body of our citizens. And this the people of Italy, Austria, Russia and the countries of the Eastern Mediterranean would do. The Immigration problem thus becomes not one of keeping great numbers of assimilable people out of this country, but of opening natural op portunities and destroying special privileges in the United States, so as to give plenty of opportunities for employment to- all our present population and all who may come by birth or immigration.- - elapse before they are concluded. The task of unearthing the malfeasance of former officials and of asserting the county's rights Is necessarily a long ond a difficult one. The authorities who are prosecuting the work should have the fullest measure of popular support. MACHINE'S PLANS MISCARRY, The elevation of C. F. Swigert as president of the Port of Portland Commission will be gratifying to all citizens who believe that the commission should not be a mere adjunct of the local Republican machine, but should be devoted solely to the furtherance of the interests of this port. The Journal advo cated the selection of either Mr. Swigert or Mr. Adams, on the ground that they are the only experienced members of the.jboard and are therefore better qualified to preside over It than any of the newly-appointed members can possibly be. The election of Mr. Swlgert is a-distinctive defeat for the petty poli ticians who v.ere seeking to make the or ganization a mere patronage mill for the furtherance of their selfish schemes. If the Port of Portland Commission is to be of any real value to the public, it mtiBt be kept free from the contaminating influences of ma chine politics. 4 ( - It is a dull dny.(when the Washington dis patches do not' record new arrests or Indict ments of postoffice officials. The discovery that some of these officials were not content with the profits of bribery and blackmail, but resorted to forgery as well, serves to show how utterly they were without fear of being called to account. . The fund for the relief of the Heppner sufferers has .reached generous proportions, but it is iot yet sufficient to meet the need. It Is gratifying to .note the ready response from every city and town of Oregon. want. Hence economic rivalry and religious rancor combine In wild bursts of passion and hurl the Russian Gentile against the Russian Jew. The latter, being much In the minority, they have to give way, which they do by leaving Russia for.other lands chiefly the United States. " . ' Thus these two peoples, the Italians and the Russian Jews, have found the United States a land of refuge, a "land of promise." And what is said of these two peoples may be said of the Austrian Immigrants. Conditions in their own countries have -become Intolerable for multitudes; they have crossed the seas to the United States. .- " '' " " . . Had not these miseries of environment come upon these peoples in their own countries, it seems certain that they would not come here, for conditions in this country, considered of themselves, have not grown more attractive to outside peoples, but really less. The proof of that Is the falling off in the immigration of the peoples of the British Isles and Germany. All in all, things are not materially better fh these countries than they were In 1882, when there was such a great exodus thence into this country. The advantage in the getting of a living for the average map is now not so largely on our side as it was 20 years ago. Were there in those countries circumstances of per secution or oppression, such as exists In Russia, Austria and Italy, then the tide of Immigration might be heavy from Ireland, England, Scotland and Germany. But these discouraging circumstances do not exist, or at any rate the comparison of the United States with their own countries does not now-make this country appear to be vastly more , favorable to the material welfare of a people, so that immigration from those countries has greatly fallen oft. It will not do for us to wrap ourselves up In our pride and say that this is not so, that the United States in itself does not really offer less to immigration thah it formerly did and that were it not for increasing oppressions of some 'foreign governments and serious religious and social disturbances there would be a great tailing off in the general volume of immigration. We know certainly that while there was some of the "public domain" to be had for farms by Immigrants in 1882, there is practically none now; that speculators have got it. AYe know that there is a feverish land boom In progress through the Mississippi Valley and west of the Rlckles, so that speculators' land that is foraate Is thus made high nd tends to raise up another deterrent to immigration. Then, too, we know that the cost of living is at this time very much higher than It was years o go. We have had a period of industrial prosperity follpwtng the Industrial depression of 1802-7. But speculation set In and concentration, so that the advantage of this activity has gone mainly to the speculators of various kinds, while the masses Of the people have suffered from lower wages and higher prices. , Much more might be said, but this is sufficient to make us realize that the real difficulty with-the immigration question is not wha is so generally implied; indeed, so often said: that we are receiving an objectionable, class of immigrants. It ia the obvious right of a people to keep out of their country an element that 1 not assimilable.' For this reason the eiyjJualon of the Chinese - is Justifiable. - Time , and conditions do not change them. They are .always Chinese, and do not become anything else, . no matter to what country and in what numbers they . immigrate. But this cannot be, said of the Italians, the Austrians or the Russians, Jews or Gentiles. . Nor really can it be said of the peoples from the Eastern Mediterranean countries. They cannot be called non- THE COWBOYS HIGH HEEL8. A correspondent whq signs himself "D. W. ,H." writes entertainingly as follows: "In one'orhe le4es-4n-"the- Nosegay column reference is made to the high heels on the boots of the Texas cowpunchers, and vanity Is given as the reason for the high heel. This is somewhat of & mistake. No doubt "vanity figures In it, for the writer has been witness to the fact seeing heels so high that they were braced with small iron rods on the Inside. But to return to the real use of the high heel for it has a use. We all know the broncho, some of us by reputa tion and others by experience, and know he is, to say the least, a trifle unreliable, On the saddles used in the west the small, light stirrup ot Iron is not used. In its place is the large wooden stirrup similar to the one used In the cavalry, but mostly without the leather guard over the front, and It is here where the high heel plays its part. The vooden stirrup is "so large than an ordinary shoe as worn would slip through, and it does not take much im agination to picture what would happen If at this time the rider should be thrown from the saddle, and one foot be caught in the stirrupi With the high heel this fa Impos sible," for the foot cannot go all the way through. So vanity is not the whole reason of the cowpurtcher's high heel." IN QUEST OF CALM. "You say you are going to the city for rest and quiet 7" - ''Yes," answered the rural Kentucky belle "Father's just got fourjpallors of moonshine liquor, and Is polishing his Winchester, 'and jnother and I have decided that vre want to go to some lonesome, far-away place like Chicago or New York." -Washington Star; "So they have had their first quarrel?" f fYesl She says she is dreadfully disappointed-In him," . "For what reason T' r " " ' , "She 'discovered that all those lovely tjiingi he quoted from ;Omar Khayyam weren't original' 'Washington ' jStar.."" LADY BALCARRIE8' "FLAME" FAD. English women of fashion are apparent) devoted to a new shade. It is an uncom- premlBlngorangei a most - tryinr' tmtrane one that women have been using only spar ingly In the last 60 years. Two English women. Lady Balcarres and Mrs. Charles Ewart, have been wearing gowns laden down with this bright hue. Lady Balcarres' had a long court train at one ,of the drawing rooms made of orange velvet, flounced with cream colored lace. Mrs. Ewart dutifully followed suit, and her brown chiffon frock was bright ened with a full sash of orange crepe. .. Even this fashionable favor will not avail burnt orange or "flame," as it isri. called by the French. The most delicate skin looks yellow beside orange, and the most brilliant com plexion is pale. Nevertheless, fashionable milliners along Piccadilly have taken up the "flame" fad and one woman has the daring to show a gown of unrelieved orange crepe. litT SUMMER HALF HOLIDAYS. "We close early," are prosaic words to those people of leisure with whom the work of each day stops In good season, but they are full of enchantment to the ordinary toller who .knows that business closings mean social openings. A few years ago these announcements of . . half holidays aroused some curiosity and wonder, and the believers in all work and no play prophesied that no good would come of them and Ifat a mischief -making satan was waiting around the corner for all these idle hands. But good has come of it, and the signs that used to be seen Only on Saturdays are now to'be found on Thursdays in markets and groceries announcing to the public that there are midweek holidays when a ' grocer may forget he is a grocer and a market man may be a vegetarian. Chicago Tribune. GREAT SAVING. . , . Stubb You didn't seem much . worried about the waiters' strike? c -. '. Penn Nc I saved so much in tips t could afford to buy a spring suit and a pan ama."Chlcago News . -,;f