'1 9' ' Sheridan Road Publishing Company mum 1.1.“. ‘w M Math!†mmmw... We“ m. ‘WhiceslqoaYe-r. 5'thqu MHâ€" SAT‘URDAY. NOVEMBER I8, 1904. M "w w-â€" ‘om ,wa: unumm tram-u,“ a mimetgoltobeuollvonoluw w;wwhmlmmm inite'uhhï¬'p-ti-offlhxth. 31 sun with highidub lvm'utinhd witty»! pa) udpootpuitiou. [didn't 6133de when I was young. Now it {5 too Into. “Iyadviugoayouucmwodilhhlufl withhichoisomcdnymbecodnctichot if 2 g i i 5 nakemdmspecialpolicicsmmm The onlything we ate sure ofis 113:“:an mkcthepaperuxoï¬dunkmuhov. lud- dentallyweexpecttogetlgoodhlofm outofit. ' ,Al “Ill "In. Wemuyinexflaudonï¬uttheduqeof meismdeintheimenasofdeï¬nhm Uudcr the old name we could he gluon anywhcte up and mu In“ w- v_- down a thirty-mile road. Now we feel at home in Highland Park. . If you wlsh to know what the “policy†of the Nan-Letter is to be, you will have to Mt! it {tom week to week. This issue must mt“! mue- sent only the starting point, but liter numbm am tell their own story. N â€91(3qu Made of men waisted --L A the! thing in all his large operations f _ A a} » . '. him‘the “PM. an the“; ff“ ~13"? 17‘ the “ Saturday Evening Post." “The mm we “I"? does a little less than is expected of him,†wit the ‘ reply. "He is a dangerous faetor in all W!» ““1"“ :2: d†The absolute failure we .read‘iiy~ discover and air ‘tto â€I? $13 charge. but the ‘almosrs’ escape detection for war; rm A r months and often years, and they make our losses to 4.“ m“ ‘ - - . ~ . he abseua as we“ as our fears," and With a very serious smile . . .. . . . .. . better roads m be added, The drrp m lmsmess ts worse than the . . .. ' crvrc pride. G leak. _ . When this we: a .t-u- ,7 .L_‘_ TIw-usandslof men fancy they are, tumumg melt duty «3 their employers ï¬nd to their tasks by, keep- ing hours and performing just enough to hold on to â€Mr positions. They have an idea that to do mare would be to give larger service, than their compcxisation required. They object fowhat they believe wmdd he Extra values. " The oid man shan’tgct more than he's paying for,†is the ver- naculat. .LAA :3- nu... Possibiy it never strikes these-trimmus that in cheating their work they are doing, doubie'damge: they are injuring their empioyers much, buythey are rowing themselves more; they are. in fact, los- ing, everything in life that is worth while., ' Half doing soon brings undoing. It is the nine- tcnths doing or the ninety‘n'mc one-hundredih‘s doing that hk-Fds' business and says cï¬arafler. luking out the wt of The SW Road Nm-Lcmr, we lave no maniacs to nakemdmspecialpolicicsmmm The ruling we ate sure of is an! we an min. to rothmflflllwdlinmw. lua- _ â€gray-haired German who spends his nights ‘ ' catching ran in one of the packing houses. He says he 'ï¬e‘ver 'earncd‘ovcr sixty dollars a month, and nowlthe day of opportunity is past. When he u was asked whydhié had M the yearn go by without becoming a My: or even 'wdl-‘o-do. he re- pï¬ed: ' ’ ' D OWN 'm'the Chicago StocWards is a rd Why, He Park NeWs â€" Letter The Almosts "5 Not a Millionaire “in (Imp: midi}! ' It were stmgér still if any man 1 'Miwdengofy Rlbnthummwideiawtun Inveotvbatwem.uthcniblemgoah before destruction. Civic pride, however, an pride in each other, in what has been (lone and em be done tovbuild up and make buufigul the place goeth before all civic progress. . It is both right and peoï¬nhle to demo the best things for Highland Park. or any othet city in which we live. Most of us came to Highland Park to live: to make a home, to “take root.†Wine is more natural than to desire to live in a beautiful city, to have one’a home surroundings attentive, to “take root" in a pleasant place?' ‘ The glacial period of the world's history was particularly thoughtful of the North Shore. The ice sheet that once lay like e blanket over this region was our greatest benefactor; lot it made our scenery it?! use; The walled ravine-gnu form the gm: "manic amï¬on of the North Shore wereghe [iii {flit} the citf sï¬buid‘obiéct; of‘progat,,dr:‘mmp§ to wasn't. ,M’compiaiu agiinst‘any. imp , comm tint would make‘l-lighland Park a; more'bcanti‘ful‘ place to “vein. ' ' ‘ V . “J uv‘. u» The absence of opposition to the movemjcntifot better roads in Higmmd Pugh speaks wen for out civic pride. Good roads are one~of the essentials. When this work is done we may ï¬nd something else that ,needs attention. If we do let’s do it with a win. uncomplaini‘ngiy .apd altogether. 051‘ of us can’t help it,‘ But whether'we, _ can help it or not, the ability to work-is one of our chiefest blessings. In these days of labor agitation and strikes, when every 13- boring man seems to be striying‘ to .work as few hours and for as large wages as possibie, we are likeiy to forget that work, the ability to be busy with our hands or head in the pursuit of a iiveii: hood, is a, divine gift and an inestimabie blesning. Work gives a purpose. to our lives. Work brings us in touch with our ieilows. Work breeds se’if; respect and insures happiness. * Work blesses the worker, no matter how triviai'and unimportant it 1, God pity the man “ out of â€work,†the man who wants work and can’t ï¬nd it! ‘ ‘AAAA “un: "v... ....- Did you ever try to loaf for a few weeks at a time and feel that A“tired feeling†creeping over you? That restlessness and impatience with your- se‘f which made you want to do something? We pity the man who is compelled to labor beyond hi: bodily endurance. We turn in diegust from the man who refuses to work, it matters not whether hebedchorpoor. Themkmiordoingudngs Six Days Shalt Thou Civic is n divine punionué urinary!» ï¬lm work to: wovk'n sake is found to he hm. _ mat-UNI _ Weddittohimï¬otapric. h u onlyincombutinmowodunityfotmm Let's any out dime: ptil a little la! oomph“!- intly.mnemherio¢tht . Nut to thwï¬oviflutm, God m tho â€nucleon. to Mt. r g? â€˜ï¬ But the showing of these working people is even better'than the ï¬gures would indicate. Besides their savings, 3.73 per cent of their expenses teptesem insurance. which is really I form of investment. Of the wire cost of living of such a funily, over tunewqmmen to for [our prime necessitiesâ€"42.54 gent for food; usage: cent (0‘: W. 14.04 ' 4E tent for clothing, â€34.39 â€Y but for M. "Knitwear, where thehind of me {nan/ether“ is ' so ,hee’vyâ€"â€"taking a third of the peasant’s income. in . “fly, itiis "aidsâ€"the mdst eetonishinz. thing M143 "' n i. iuiumiu bee-nu ithu mm with mud withmc.otulastvithournei¢hbu. The upon shows not out; “:9ng oil!» "can man. but the cost of living for himself and'hn- “yeâ€"{or me “can nun. flunk haven. .409 In" shunnitnhomnlsoflunmnvium'din- numenble cum interesting fun that m be db- medbydiemnvhohovshovtodedphet ï¬gures. Ooewritctmkesthehflowmmm on the report, which covers only families of wage- «mm or uhried men earning less than $1,100 a mt. Of 3,567 such hmilje! the mm! mm avenged $27.19. and their expenditures $768.54. leaving a surplus of $58.65 (9 go into the avian hank. That is doing pmzy' well. considering the diflicuky most people earning $5,000 or $10,060 ‘3 year hut in paying their bills. not to speak of put- ting anything into the bank: em the'triï¬ing ammmt'the American; m flimfly pays. {onuxeu‘ Only threeâ€"quarter: of one ‘ per cent of the average expenditure is charged to ' that item, .although, of course, the American 6on- some! pays heavy tariï¬ taxes on. his clothing and 5 part of his food. _ ‘ " Temperance orators used to any, and perhaps they still do, that if the American vim-lam“ would only let. liquor and'tobacco alone 56de have a cottage. at NeWport. The Labor Bureau's ï¬gures show that if the average wage-earner; family nearer: touched a drop of liquor or‘toolt a whiff of tobacco it would have 'only $23.36 more to add to its pres- ‘ ent savings of $58.65. Few Newport cottages cah be run on that amount. Only 1.62 per cent at the money spent by such a family goeg for liquor aï¬d 1.42 per'lren't for tobacco. Perhaps? this' my ex- plain why the.prohibition movement has been sta- l' ry for ‘so many years. Neverthelest the item f liquor, small as it it, is the la‘rgest for any llixury. Amueements and vacation come next, 'with ‘ 1.6 percent ointhc family budget, then books and newspapers with 1.09, religion with 0.99; and char- ity with 0.31. Labor and other organization feet take 1.17 per cent. That might be called a luxury, 1 necessity, or an investment, according to the point ol view. '1 ‘ - - I . ,..A u: I-vvv Incidentally, the significant fact is brought out that the average family of the class with which these ï¬gures deal is larger by over oneLseventh than the average American family, as shown by the census. Plainly, race suicide has not mode the revues among people with incomes oi less than $1.300 c ya: that it hes among some who on more con- spicuouc in the public eie. ' How the Avengc Mu: Li