The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-09
From the Chicago Tribune.

From the Chicago Tribune.
e<T HE most pitiful man in Chicago
today" said Malcolm Mellow
! ell. rs the white collar man in
need of aid" Mr. Mcdowell was guest
at the weekly luncheon of the Irish Eel
lowship club, Hotel La Sale, yesterday.
There are at present. he said. 1900
idle men waiting for the winter to break.
This number soon will be 10000, and then
we will be swamped. These men are not
buns. They are working men, Look at
their feet. white feshed-that Is, frozen.
The mild winter you are praising has
been one of hardship to them.
.They work on the ice fields IN the WIN
ter. There are none at present. Ihey
want to work, but there is notnins ior
| them TO do. Among these is the white col
lar brigade. and they are standing on Inc
brink of hell.
| .r am going to hit you fellows straight
from the shoulder. You who pay dollar
nlate for a dinner when I can take that
anount and get 10 nigh flop or let some
MOO, devil live on it for five days. | rep
resent no organization. Tnere are top
many organizations now. what TINS city
needs is personal work.
I'VE don't need you on the West Side
| r. is being taken care Of But how about
the fellow on your own dorstep, within
vour office. inside this room. I'm speak
ing about the most pitiful proposition
.thsre is to deal with-the white collar
man.
| I'VE have a University club on the West
| Sine Among its members are university
graduates from Cornell, Harvard, Yale
ond other universities. Fellows who talk
b.t,er English than / ever will. but who
fov Soma easou or other are down and
out
| Il am not here to entertain, but TO de-
! liver a message. / come as an amoas-
sador from the court of the men oil want.
I speak for more than 1900 failures. You
nusr help the men without work | say
Won must. To me those are the most
inportant words in the language
.Did YOU ever notice dogs on the
1stnaato some are smaller than the 9TH
err. some weaker, and some Just plain
,,.,,ow curs 1t is the practice to egg the
other dogs onto the ours. Men are clas-
| SIZED in the same way. A man can't
helm being the yellow dog. It's not his
fault He is because he is. God made
h;,, co Shall we eriticise him? There
arc yellow dogs in this room who would
=, down and out today were it not for
rho assistance of their friends who keep
.hem nm Every man should see how the
yellow dogs live The only way to do this
| al
"Vhat would YOU do If you We're in
| thei, place. You could only do as they
lhave done. Wrap newspapers about your
bee to keep warm. Frequent the street
free built to thaw out the streets. Hang
around saloons-and the saloons close at
Il O'Clock except on New Years.
..Do YOU know that conditions in this
| town put a premium on honesty? Men can
60 to the bridewell. county jails or PEN
itertiaries, get three square meals day
and a roof over them. What does the city
os Chicago give them? A cup of black
coffee without sugar or milk and a piece
of bread two days old
my advice to you il you ever get down
/ and out is to put brick through plate
glass window Mr.. Whitman will take
good care OF you. IL you re hohest youii
starve on the streets.
MY message to you is to do something
for the other fellow, not on Christmas,
but every day. Do it yourself. 1t will
cure your crouch and strengthen your
back.
There are 1900 men living on margin
Of less than 70 cents day. and the
conditions under which they live are de-
lplorabie. If you don't do something for
those in your immediate neighborhood
yen are indeed hard hearted.
Air. Mcdowell stated that he owed his