Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-10-05
THE FULL DINNER PAIL,
Attempt 10 Nsnuiaciure Good Times Does Not Feed Sisrv.
 log Children In Chicago.

I-among the causes, lack or employ' ment of parents, and the constant in crease in the cost of living without a corresponding increase In wages.
 This is the startling announcement made in the daily newspapers of Chi cago and which has brought gloom and consternation to the managers of the republican national committee in this city. They have been preaching prosperity and the full dinner pail through the continuance of the re- party in power and the maintenance of high tariff The republican news papers of Chicago without exception have given this republican claim the lie direct. In publishing with big headlines the report of the special committee appointed to investigate the conditions in public schools, they show that thousands of children are suffering from hunger and actually dying from starvation in the great industrial and commercial city Of Chicago.
 Here are the headlines running , across three columns of the paper from the Chicago lnter-Ocean 1 (republican):
 HUNGER MENACES 10000 l PUPILS IN CITY SCHOOLS; l MANY BEG REFUSE TO EAT Startling Conditions in Chicago
 shown By Report of Investigating
 Committee Who Find Starvation
 Has Many Victims.
 5000 Have No Meal in Morning Body Asks Food for Children, Some
 of Whom Have Forgotten Taste of Butter, Living on Dry Crusts Earn l ed By Heroism of Mothers Who Go 1 to Bed Fasting.
 The Tribune heads its article:
 HUNGER STALKING
 IN CITY SCHOOLS Five Thousand Pupils Don't Know What a Full Meal Means and Ten Thousand Others Are Underfed. The Record Herald (Ind? rep) 1 heads its story with:
 THOUSANDS OF PUPILS e-.. SUFFER FROM HUNGER The Inter-Ocean begins the horrible story telling of the starving of the little ones in the midst of "republi- can prosperity" with the following: Five thousand children often go to school breakfastless. Fully fifteen thousand school children of Chi cago are underfed and ha- bitually hungry. Mothers go to bed fasting in order that their children may have food in the morn ing. Half clad and crying children have been found on the streets beg ging dead fowls and rotten fruit to eat.
 These are some of the statements in the report on indigent children filed with the school management committee of the board of education.
 The Tribune Republican, says:
 Many wage earning mothers have incomes of not more than eighty cents day.
 Summarizing the causes which produce the conditions of hunger the same paper cites, Hack of employ ment," and the constant increase in the cost of living without core spending increase in wages" as the chief reasons for the horrors.
 Among numerous instances the Tribune cites the following:
 In Armour school district-Father out of work, mother sick; not scrap of food in the house; five children, three half naked and one garbed only in undershirt, crying for bread. For three days they had lived on tea, no bread, milk or sugar.
 In Jenner school district-One mother supports a family of four children on s2.50 week sewing pants.
 In Drummond school district Family of seven. No food in the house. Father out of work. Went to lake to commit suicide, but changed his mind and committed misdemeanor in order to be locked up and get l prison meal.
 In Southwestern district-Family l of six found hungry. almost crazed | by lack of food. Had lived five days | on bread and water. and last loaf had | been eaten for breakfast
 These are only few of the many | which the Tribune cites out of the thousands reported.
 During the present republican pan- ic hungry children have not even been provided with free soup houses.