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it was a life or death errand he was
on. | saw a woman with five chill
dren stringing out behind her and
another in a baby cab, cross busy
street. The automobiles kept right
on going, so did the woman, so did
the five kids and the baby cab. How
on earth they ever got across that
chaos, confusion and maelstrom of
traffic without being injured is too
deep for me, but they did, undoubted-
ly have many times before and will
many times in the future. /.
/ knew r. c. Lloyd and his son
Elvon were in this city and when 1
got here l tried to locate them. /
wanted them to go through the cap
tured German submarine the ~. G.
59", with me. / found that they had
left for home ON the Thursday night
boat, so went through the submarine
alone. The boat was surrendered
| by the Germans with the rest of theE
navy at the conclusion of the war.
1t is the most intricate piece OF ma
chinery / ever saw. / went in at one
end and came out at the other ana
l was very glad to get out as the in
side Of the boat was anything but a
desirable place to live in and no mat
ter what one thought of the submar-
inc as a fair or unfair means of
carrying on war you cound not but
admire the bravery of the men who
manned the intricate and ccmplicat-
ed machinery of the sub. in their
cramped up quarters. This particu-
lar submarine, the u. C. SO has a
record of sinking eight British war
ships during its career. / would not
have missed going through the sub
marineif it had cost me five dollars. :.
We called on the Hough family,
Sunday and / must go and see Vern
Divine. Don Cooper is in business
college here and / talked with him
over the phone yesterday and intend
to see him today. There are also a
number of other Bedding people here
who / would like to see if had time
and liked the hurried life Of the city
enough to want to remain longer, but
me for the ordinary life in safe, clean
Belding, every time.
/ have had the pleasure Of being
| shown through an artificial ice plant
and this morning am going to have
a talk with the president of a COM
pany which deals in refrigerating
and ice manufacturing machinery,
with a view of getting data and in
| formation, as to just about what the
| people of Bedding would need in this
line. The artificial ice plant which
went through has a capacity of abous
250 tons daily and the ice is as clear
as pane of glass. Its quality is of
the very best and / think it would
be good thing for our own city to
have such plant.
We went through practically every
park in the city and have driven all
day without once getting off from the
asphalt pavement. We went through
4 the big conss lvatory in Humboldt
park on this trip and saw some of the
most wonderful plants and trees one
could wish to see.
We went out on the Municipal
pier and saw this wonderful thing.
We started cut on the west side OF
the city, went to the north side, then
along the lake shore, through "the
loop" and by the way, the busiest
! place in the world, then out Michigan
| Avenue way to Washington and jack
son parks and then back to our rel
atives home.
We are enjoying the trip and having
| coed time on our vacation but Chi
cago is big over grown city where
everybody forgets everybody else,
where but few people live for any
thing else other than a selfish mo-
tive, so it looks to US, and we will be
glad when we cross the state line in
to michigan My Michigan" again
and still more glad when the little
old Ford rolls US back into Belding,
clean, beautiful and wirth living In
once more.
If all is we'll and the Lord grants
us safe passage home we will be back
and meet you in Bedding on Labor
Day and get cut the paper next week.
/ So long until then.
Ed. d. Engemann.
We saw the ruins in the burned
districts, silent monurCs.ts of the
Il race riots and class hatred which re-
n Gently disgraced Chicago. We saw
a large number of hoes in three
II diff erent blocks, all charrea ruins. We
TALKED with a white man who regres-
ted the fact but said the white peO-
pie were IN a large measure TO blame
lie laid that he saw a bunch Of white
hoeOums board a street car IN which
he was riding. They toick a little
black baby Of but FIVE CT six months
oil away from It's colored mother
and threw il up against the brick
wall Of a building IN much the same
manner as a person would dispose Oi
an undesirable kitten. On the other
hand, he said, the black toughs wer,
guilty of equally atrccious acts, one
of which he saw committed immed-
lately after the negro baby had beer
killed by being thrown UP against
the wall. The killing Of the baby So
enraged some negros who saw it that
they grabbed a lady passerby and
cut and slashcd her in an unprintable
manner. She died before she could
be placed in an ambulance. l am told
that the race riots were the work Of
and were participated in by the
"tcugh" elements of both the white
and negro people, only. The gooc
people of both races not condonine
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