these men who are willing to devote their lives to the advancement and aid of eliminating this white scourge, are meeting with opposition by those reactionaries who have always resisted progress and advancement. Even some of the incompetents designated as "doctors" have shown their spleen because they are afraid some work will be taken away from them.

The trade unionists, who have always advocated such institutions, and all other great progressive people, are doing everything possible to see that these institutions are established. The cost is not great, because each one of these can be erected for the amount of $75,000 and there is sufficient money in the treasury to build two, and it will be only a short time until sufficient appropriations will be forthcoming to build another one. The question is now before the Finance Committee of the City Council of Chicago, and we hope that the progressive men that form that committee will hasten the project of approving of the appropriation immediately.

We were astounded a year or two ago and horror stricken by the loss of seventeen hundred lives in the Titanic disaster, but from the reports of the famous A. F. Campbell, dean of the Ohio State University, College of Medicine, from the statistics he has gathered and which are authorized and correct, there is approximately in the United States seventeen hundred who die each day from tuberculosis, and at the same time it has been proven conclusively that tuberculosis is a preventable disease, that 80 per cent of the cases can be cured if taken in time and properly treated. Hence, we see the necessity for the establishment of these diagnosis stations that are being put forth by these people, men at the head of the Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium, and they are not only needed in Chicago, but in every other city throughout the length and breadth of our jurisdiction. Such a scheme should be inaugurated, and we hope and trust that our members will read and study this proposition and do everything that they can to advocate and put into practical effect similar institutions in their respective localities.

In looking up our death rate of the members of the United Association, we find that 40 per cent of our members die from tuberculosis or kindred diseases, and there is no one would be more interested to aid this splendid work now put forth by these great lovers of humanity, than the members of the United Association, and, indeed, all workers, should be, and we know are, just as much, if not more interested, than any other part of society.

We take this opportunity of expressing our congratulations and keen appreciation to Dr. Caldwell and the following members of this board of directors for the splendid work that they have already achieved in behalf of suffering humanity, and that which they desire to accomplish, for the

purpose of saving many useful lives to needy families.

Dr. A. J. Ochsner, professor of surgery, Illinois University, and a well-known authority on hospital construction.

Dr. John A. Robison, president of the state board of health and former president of the Chicago Medical Society.

Dr. C. S. Bacon, professor of obstetrics, medical department, Illinois State University and Chicago Policlinic, and former president of the Chicago Medical Society.

Dr. Carl Beck, professor of surgery and surgical pathology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, and surgeon to the North Shore and Cook County Hospitals.

Dr. Augustus A. O'Neill, chief surgeon of the Columbia Hospital and president Chicago Medical Society.

Dr. D. A. K. Steele, dean Illinois Medical School and former president of the Chicago Medical Society.

Dr. James A. Clark, secretary ear, nose and throat department of the Post Graduate, West Side and St. Anthony hospitals, and former president of the Chicago Medical Society.

Dr. Edward B. Tuteur, well-known tuberculosis specialist and former president of the Physicians' Club.

Dr. Charles H. Parkes, former secretary of the Chicago Medical Society and president of the Tri-State Medical Society.

Dr. M. Z. Albro, former secretary of the Chicago Medical Society.

Dr. Effie L. Lobdell, member of the Woman's Medical Club.

His American Name.

A somewhat unpatriotic little son of Italy, 12 years old, came to his teacher in the public school and asked if he could not have his name changed.

"Why do you want to change your name?" the teacher asked.

"I want to be an American. I live in America now."

"What American name would you like to have?"

"I have it here," he said, handing the teacher a dirty scrap of paper on which was written "Patrick Dennis McCarty."Chicago News.

A Little Succor.

To the village clergyman's home there came one day a bouncing baby boy. Kind neighbors and members of his flock hastily gathered together a few dollars and presented the money to the proud but poor father. So great was his gratitude that he decided to thank the congregation the following Sunday before beginning his sermon, and this is what the wondering congregation heard:

"Friends, I want to express my keen appreciation and gratitude for the timely little succor that came to my home yesterday."

State High Court Favors Freedom of Action by Workers.

St. Paul, Minn.-The state supreme court has vitalized American principles of freedom of action and has jarred the AntiBoycott association in two decisions that accord workers the right to refuse to work for non-union employers, to ask others to assist them, to carry on a boycott, and to carry a banner advertising an unfair place of business.

In the case of the George L. Grant Construction company versus the St. Paul Building Trades Council, the court sustains the refusal of Judge Dickson of the Ramsey country district court to issue an injunction against these unionists, who were charged with "injuring the business" of the non-union concern by refusing to work for it and by announcing it is unfair to organized labor.

In supporting Judge Dickson's position the court said:

"Defendants have the right to work for whom they please. It is best that we give both employer and employe a broad field of action. As said by Judge Cooley: 'It is a part of every man's civil rights that he be left at liberty to refuse business relations with any person whosoever, whether the refusal rests upon reason or is the result of whim, caprice, prejudice or malice. With his reasons neither the public nor third persons have any legal concern."

"The interference with the trade relations of one with whom you have no trade relations yourself is presumptively unlawful, but conditions may be such as to furnish justification for such conduct. A person

may justify such interference if he is in pursuit of some lawful object.

"A person in furtherance of his own interests may take such action as circumstances may require, and so long as he does not act maliciously toward or unreasonably or unnecessarily interfere with rights of his neighbor, he cannot be charged with actionable wrong, whatever may be the result of his conduct in pursuing his own welfare."

In the case of the Minneapolis Moving Picture Operators' Union versus Albert Steffes, proprietor of a picture theater, the court upholds the refusal of a lower court to enjoin the workers from carrying a banner stating that Steffes' place is unfair to organized labor.

In supporting this rule by the lower court, the state supreme court says:

"The term 'unfair,' as used by organized labor, has come to have a meaning well understood. It means that the person so designated is unfriendly to organized labor or that he refuses to recognize its rules and regulations. It charges no moral shortcoming and no want of business capacity or integrity. As applied to a theater it signifies nothing as to the merits of its performances. As a rule one man has no right to interfere in the business affairs of another, but if his act in so doing is in pursuit of a just purpose, and so long as he does not act maliciously and does not unreasonably or unnecessarily interfere with the rights of his neighbor, he cannot be charged with actionable wrong.

"If the banner itself is lawful we are unable to see how the mere display of it by a pedestrian upon a public street is unlawful."

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Items for the official columns of the Journal should be prepared on a separate sheet, and the style of the paper followed as closely as possible. Such items should not be made a part of a letter dealing with other subjects, for if this is done the Items are likely to be overlooked, even though greatest care be exercised. Write as plainly as possible-especially proper names, using one side of the sheet only. Communications must in all instances be accompanied by the author's name and address. All official matter must be in the hands of the editor before the 18th of each month to insure insertion in the issue immediately following. The observance of the foregoing will tend to insure what is desired by all-promptness and accuracy in the publication of official matter.

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All the nations are careful to maintain friendly relations with Chile, Chile being the place where the harmful necessary nitrates come from.

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Preparedness, like charity, begins at home, and too often, like charity, it goes no further. Every one of us who has been apathetic toward the means of national defense is responsible in some degree for the spirit betrayed by our representatives who ignore true national preparedness.

In accepting the inevitable the Russian emperor performed the most sagacious act of his career-provided, of course, he really did accept it and is not at this moment planning to come back, as Manuel of Portugal and Napoleon of France and Jim Jeffries and other great ones planned.

Women attired in overalls, employed as machinists and working side by side with members of the male sex, have become such a common thing in the great factories of the east that the International Association of Machinists has submitted to a referendum vote of its affiliated locals a resolution making women eligible to membership in the union and entitling them to all the benefits and privileges of that organization.

GOMPERS CABLES TO JAPAN.

For the purpose of establishing fraternal relations between workers of this hemisphere and the far east, President Gompers cabled this message to President Suzuki of the Laborers' Friendly Society of Japan:

"The most important immediate duty of our labor movements is to use every influence in our power upon the governments of Japan and the United States to maintain the best possible relations between our respective countries and endeavor amicably to solve vexatious problems."

President Suzuki replied as follows: "Co-operate for labor and humanity." Mr. Suzuki came to the United States in 1915 on a fraternal mission, and last year he again visited this country and attended the convention of the California State Federation of Labor and the American Federa-. tion of Labor.

PRESIDENT SIGNS BILL TO AID VOCATIONAL TRAINING.

With four different pens made for the occasion, President Wilson signed the vocational education bill which provides federal co-operation with the states in establishing industrial schools for the teaching of trade, home economics, industrial and agricultural subjects.

The federal government will appropriate $1,700,000 this year. This amount will be yearly increased, and will be apportioned to states that accept the provisions of the act.

A Real Commander.

It was an evening party and Dodge asked Keller: "Who is that impressive-looking woman over there?" the reply.

"That's Mrs. Moore," was "She's a remarkably strong-minded woman. It is said she commands a large salary." "Indeed," said Dodge reflectively, as he looked at the woman, with interest. "How does she earn it?"

"She doesn't earn it," said Keller, "Her husband earns it, and she commands it."Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph.