It is a noble work that this restaurant is doing; one well worthy of our civilization.

But who will tempt the unjaded appetites of the slum-dwellers?

Transcriber’s Note

Dialect, obsolete and alternative spellings were left unchanged.

Footnotes were moved to the end of the section to which they pertain.

Raised caps replaced dropped caps at the beginning of each article and poem.

Spelling changes:

‘conciousness’ to [‘consciousness’] …class-consciousness…
‘prmitive’ to [‘primitive’] …primitive profession of murder…

Two lines were [omitted] by the editor of The Forum in the poem by Giovannitti. The omitted lines read:

And from its bloody pedestal