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Show I' ' " HOLDING A I liJWH WiTSl h Ts Free Lunch about to have a fl Ir this homely, honest institution H of the people about to blossom H forth Into a civic force? Is the ham sandwich about to beconie I woapon at tlx- polls? Is the pi kled I jkjajw beet destined to plaj .. role aa i H ejfl ward captain, sauer kraut be ome Liiiifl rJrf spellMndanf H ill lew of un who have munched fl vilJ MO tavern keeper's gratuity have b II Imagined there were potential oter H Illi between the slices of bread of our 'jili I sandwich. To thousands of men b -j' igr I throughout the country Free Lun-'h Lllllfl a?'il nis 1,0011 a sol.n--. an appetizer, ar LlilB 'lla Inspiration, a time-killer, a habit "Wj or a Hfe-Haver. Liiifl a i - 'l remained to the saloon kecp- Laaafl 'sia ers ' l'lst St. Louis to show there Laaaaaa My s something in Free Lunch below Hi j V' the surface not n s methtng to '4 i Mart a pure food investigation, but ia something to put a new angle on J A politic!. 1 The advent of Free Lunch Into 1 Fast St. Louis polities was tort ti - 'vt ous. It was gradual, but It was none the lews Surei At the start I of the deadlock between Mayor p .M Chamberlln and the Cltj '..nn II . . jm Pree Lunch had not cast it.1- shadow ft beyond the saloon door, within if whose portals Is the only really proper place for Free Lunch to caBt 'a a shadow. j,l Then matters grew to a crisis. The Ituatibn stood a tie. And at -IK, this point Free Lunch made its In dramatic entrance, ready to swing afl i the balance of power wherever It VI I' Thing -1 1 . , i n this wise In East l St. Louis when Free Lunch came qjj upon the scene with a slab of II corned beef for a shield, a French roll for a spear and radish for jM' a son fa I on ,31 Mayor Chamberlln discharged jHhM George K and John Shannon, two members of the Hoard of tire and 4 Police Commissioners, lie placed 1 two of his adherents on the board, m who would follow his wishes. Tin: DKADLOt K few is stkti:i. FrW Mayor ChainberUn then sent the flajfl name' of George W. Blrohlet and fdB Clark H. Way to the City Council ! for a ratification. The Council re- fused to ratify. In the meantime H his nominees on the Fin- and Po- Hcc Board appointed Alfred Hol-jHB Hol-jHB loway as Chief of Police In place SB of Ransom Pa ne. Holloway never R had served on the police force, had no experience In poii- tn.itters and was not wanted by the City Council or by Uannom Payne. The Council refused to ratify Hollow ay's it(pointment. They refused to discharge Roc and Shan- Again Mayor Chamberlln did It fll for them. He, renpnolnterj I'.rlcklcr and Way (o the board. Asuln the Council refused to HB ratify the chance. Aaaln Mayor Chamberlln tried to 9H' force tt. Much more of this. Then Mayor Chain berUn tried a iH1 new tack. n, threatened to close the East St. Louis saloons on Sun-day Sun-day If the Council persisted In Its attitude of defiance. This made m sit up and take notice. There Is a' law in Illinois that dramshops must be closed on Sunday. It is a law much more honored In the breach than in the observance. -- Indeed one of charms of the " Last Bide to the thirsty has been the laxnet-s of the East St. Louis I'd law. Its looseness of observ- ance was delightful. I Mayor Chamberlln's ukase caused I much the same havoc that a rig. orous stand for .Irunkenn would A c,',", m 0, T. U. convention. The news seethed through tho by-Wayfl by-Wayfl of the city, gaining horror at every seethe. Thj beer mug was dashed from the eager lips figuratively figura-tively speaking. This was too much. You can see, now. how Free Lunch really saved an awesome situation, a situation fraught with dire possibilities. For here Is where Free Lund) stepped up. The saloon keepers of East St. I.ouis met and decided en banc that if Mayor Chamberlln closed the saloons on Sund.iy they would retuliate by doitiR away with Free Lunch. And If they did awa with Free Lunch well, draw our own oneluslons. CITY PAYROLL Is HELD IT. The situation had an ntfded grim touch in this. Mayor Chamberlln, In enforcing his stand against the City Council made It known that If his nominees were not ratified by the Council he would hold up the entire city payroll By the time the saloon ke pert, nut in solemn conclave and threatened to withdraw with-draw their Free Lunch the Mayor s threat h.id In - onie a fHct. November 1 there was no paydav at the time When a pavday should have been. City employes went home without their October pay, which was not well. Herein lay Free Lunch's power. The saloon keepers averred that Free Lunch formed no small part of the enjoyment of a city cmploe's life. They said that with the pay hi M bapk Free Lunch might lucerne lu-cerne more than a mere enjoyment, if the Mayor closed saloons on Sun-day Sun-day then his staff at the City Hall must suffer. Hers you see Free Lunch holding the winning trump. There would be no new Police Chief, no new Board, at least for tho present. Free Lunch made its entry Into politics with at last a flourish you must grant that much. Bigger ln-sttuitlons ln-sttuitlons have started more humbly. hum-bly. As an Initial fling at civic power It was decidedly not bad. imagine what this could lead to Imagino a political and Industrial crisis of the future In which thousands thou-sands are out of work. Factories are shut. Prices have reached their highest mark. An election draws near. In the midst of such a time an unscrupulous capitalist takes advantage ad-vantage of the suffering of the masse. lie lubat&ixas the saloons. Then he b,,j-s up vast quantities of food typical Free Lunch food. Too shrewd to j,aH)- u.jt ! ). Krtil. .1-charlty .1-charlty an ! hope to control votes thereby, the capitalist 'urns it Into that great institution. Free Lunch Voters, ,-omlng to the saloons, an they are known to do. are confronted con-fronted with the seductive charm of a Free Lunch counter that groans under the Weight of succulent succu-lent dishes. Some suunt voter. jfe I nEADING from left to right: Clark PLWay, Ransom Payne, Harry B Carson George Roe 1X and Mayor J. M. Chamberlin. Below, let t lo right: George YV. Brickler artd Alfred Holloway. pausing, uncertain, with the delicate deli-cate foam of tho brew trembling on his mustache lllie Oeeay clouds in a sun-bathed sky. yields to tho Freo Lunch man's blandishments. The voter steps closer to the counter coun-ter and in that moment hl3 manhood, man-hood, his privilege of suffrage Is threatened. How GORKI I) BKE9F COULD CONTROL VOTES. The Free Lunch man SUOSS a bit of corned beef with a devilish purpose pur-pose lie swabs it, nonchalantly, deliberately. de-liberately. In the steaming brown gravy. Malignantly, he places the slice on a piece of bread and with devilish art places another slice atop Hi first and squeeze the two together, with the meat between, burbling Juice and sending an aroma aro-ma like a thousand Arahys to nestle among the gaunt Voter' whiskers. Well, you can gue.j the outcome of such an unequal strugKle. Th voter reaches for the sandwich, his fuiKcrs almost close on it When suddenly the Free Lunch man flashes a document in his face. lie shows the voter where to nin. And the voter, his whiskers by this time buried In the intricacies of the sandwich, signs blindly and calla for another corned beef. Yes, he may even go this far. He may munch sandwich after bandwich, or, perchance, per-chance, two or more sandwiches at the same time, with necer a thought that the paper he has signed Is an initiative petition to put a tax on corncob pipe or to abolish the right to whip his children Biinaea by noodle soup Kelly might promise to vote for Schtumpf for Coroner. There s no limit to what Free Lunch might do in a situation sit-uation of the kind we have described. de-scribed. ImRine the hold Free Lunch, as an institution, would have If Woman Suffrage is accomplished in every State In the I'nion. When women are dCven from the,r place in the home by political aspirations tor by man's tyranny, whichever you wish) and when restaurants res-taurants are too high-priced for nny but the very wealthy. Is It impossible im-possible that the Free l.unrh Cook will be a power in the land0 Wltn the field of cookery abandoned by women and with the consequent rise of restaurant prices, will not the skillful preparer of Free Lunch be le to bribe men by his cunplng with the skillet or the broiler? Dark plots could be hatched, gunmen gun-men hired with a slice of rare roast beef RRJEE Ll.NOI COOK AS A WARD iios Imagine a scene In such parloue times. It Is evening. A laborer, a prosperous business man and a capitalist cap-italist drop Into Bill s Place on tne corner. They discuss the horrors of being depeudeut on Free Lunch "Laboror: "I hate to come here every evening and spend everything I have on drink But there ts no place else for man to get a decent bite to eat. My wife Is never homo any more, or If she is home she doesn't stay long enough to cook anything. I guess she has forgotten how. I can't always g to a restaurant restau-rant and pay the prices thev charge, and besides the food Is nothing like as good as it Is here." Business Man: "No place Is nearly near-ly as good. I managed to pawn my runabout aeroplane and eat at restaurants for a whlje, but I got sick of it. I find that I am a roist oef fiend completely In the power of this devilish cook here." Capitalist: "Nothing seems to do my gout so much good or so little bsrni as Gus' llebcrwurst. I can P never break away." 1 He breaks down and sobs and the others try to buck him up. even going so far as to buy him several drinks.) Business Man (trying to change he uncomfortable subject) 1 Wh.it doeti your wife do now, John?" Laborer: "She has a machine Job a good one. Ever since she got to be boss of our ward and could deliver the girls, she has been Ac High with Governeress Marjorlo. She Is now State Corset Inspector and expects a job on the Interstate TaUgC Committee before Ion;: " Business Man: "My wife Is trying try-ing to get a law passed doing away with Free launch In the entire United States she Is chairwoman of the Society for the Downing of Freo Lunch, only the society wants to down It In a different way than we do. They are trying to t ike away our last hope." Capitalist (who ha gulped the three drinks, feels better because someone else has payed for them and Is Inclined to remlnesce): "Boys, I am an old man and remember re-member things that would astound you. In m day. Free Lunch was a side issue. I rememher that all of us spent more or less time consuming consum-ing It, but we never thought of looking on It as a necessity. Wives were not In politics and if they were they ran upon the plank of being darned good cooks. Now we aro forced to depend upon Free Lunch to keep alive) And our votes ara bound up by it. My wife Is running run-ning for Sena'.oress Her political ambitions will kill me.' GOOD i.HMHNMI 1 ii;.ir v BLOW At this point the porter appears with the lum h and the three men f iwn on him. The porter hands out an order with every sandwich and the cause of good government Is dealt a blow. r course this Is all in the faraway far-away future. It may never come to pass, we will admit that. But we seem to be drifting in that direction. In Last St Louis the Free Lunch Withdrawal horror Is holding a city at bay. The saloon keepers threaten the Major If he enforces the Sunday clomg law and he gives pause City employes, bereft of pay checks nd lunch at the nuo time, can be pictured as using their Influence to prevent a rash act by Mayor ''ham-berlin. ''ham-berlin. Mayor i'hamberlin cannot, then, use the weapon that he Intended In-tended to use against the City Council. The Crty Council dare not retaliate for fear of routing Mayor i'hamberlin and forcing him to use the weapon he would rather not use. The Mayor's appointments are held up. The iv.ilce Board Is of uncertain un-certain personnel, there Is a moot question aa to who really is Police Chief, the entire polloe and fire situation sit-uation is chaotic. With the Fire and Polb e Board appointments held up. other political appolnt- mentfl ire halte.i The 1 'otnmereisj ( . .. (i,e i.iMirie. mot, i , , 1 him one v i or the other and hard !eel lng grows. - . , "-if ( .. . ei bel m naturalb to Free. Lured in th a'1 1 . ... -itio alls of M r 1 'lia rilberPM . tel t lie Of Be, I '..linen. Then . . o it liM threat a ml th n 1 ame t he ilrm sMW JOT ( of Free Lui h wllh the result! ioyi I red u ! nn rt 1 In 1 ondltiOl hiO, in Fa ;t St LoiK M I On ihl o fuc nd , 1 Tt till, I !ul 1 . following the unsettfl r- 1 ' i..i-o I' ' ihl" "uld b lU. lUt i'' or ition or h- ( 1 ts. Am tbjeel the facts are 1 .-.irre enough with ili - lion H' re In a MayOl Lijg od Is with h - "oiinc( II Hi l9j j acta nd the) ill They se v mt id 1 hem lie wlli I raw Bc the salaries of city employes. Hi c threatens to enforce .1 hw arTertint "". bat tho'iMr.dl to of . Itlzena Indirectly. Then thf of loon men threaten to at-. dish KreAraes, Lunch And 'Ion the pregreu SJ ) ,l struggle comes to an end. I fHn yf Significant th.it 1 p.ilitl il :"'llIcl-Builty follows the entry of Free LSSF Into the fight? Can II net be "JhTer h U Vi'dlri cI-0Ue Is the situation In Fa-' 3t. Lo-Jsmj, unique, or is it portentious? j.t Making Water Palatable. J, It La surprising, a-- dn'ed out illla; Iderer. that so MtMe attenOcn iBtn been paid to the .juestk-n of ""joflj lng the taste from water-suppll-4 treated with chlorinated Urne JX a this loun'' illy. "hor '-y11 treatment of many largo public MK piles has been carried out with t9 SKI llant sanitary success, thfre has t"pM frequent and often l-lttfr . c.mp--P lo be about the taste of th- tr- ' I "'t!g -t A. well known, antagonism huWjjiol veloped 111 many pla .'- '"''VtlC ter boards and h- , ' ' 'oaCi1 1 as a result of these condition?. U one side Is the r- ogniilon that J-. danger from w:.t.T- ... '"yi , great n dnced by " ' ltlt'1 Chlorlt. treatment; .-n the "therBJI tat the neeesslt;. of having to bcjr Tj? of .hilly complaint "IH t th indlgnanl pr'te "-JJJlon Fands of ' jfl ..jKT Lcl- r. r -how a simple !jLLtU f.., removing thf taste fr-m hrssjjgsaa, irlte-treated sat-r is h- '''.!lj7?, mi !hlosulph.te He has 'let .1 rood results In the ell oiaj; J tlon f - M U.k, 'n-- M'tl I in Ihls way. !mU 3v, remembered that thiosulphste 01 the c-rml Idal action of the ci 'J0" so that H Is aeresaury to or ten to fifteen tlfJH Ue thlosulpha.e n ' jm .- . ,n b' JfajT ' both K.ife nod palatable lllOOS Tl- U rong "'P -J S tar." jVft J wan: ' d- ' Mr Tt iU on her piano. ae a" new common tJ Mfr ,tie . . .-jttl-aW1 at can be "d l3!.wn pllera r vise aKh' Pra' 11 . (AllCr?11 , , ftre now earning rnor Ipf th 00.00.000 paasensrr fl. T rlfiear aj WLbHi 1 swsiHi motve fuel, burns itbc-uA -1 or K?arka M USI |