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If. - WILSON- MAKES 'INSPIRING PLEA FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN INAUGURAL ADDRESS ' ' id THE DAYBOOK ; N. D. Cochran, Editor and Publisher." 500 South Peoria St. - Tel. Monroe' 353. VOb.2,NQ.132 Chicago, Tuesday, March 41913- ONE CENT f v HOPKINS CAN" UNDERSTANJHOW ANY GIRL; 4 Judge, Who Presides' Over "Tkef Gpiiri dftfie Soiled , Doves," Doesn't Agree'With Mrs.. Lehmdnn v Julius Rosejnvald. Called in Inquiryu ' ' " -& v -i ' ' "I don't know hoy? a working girl,, who is albrie in; the world, gets along on $6 a -week.. I know that hundredSjof Chicago work ing girls do;, but I ..don't 'know howtheydp it. vAnd I can't" blame the' $6 a week girl who goes Wrong, very much.' Judge Hopkins. j.;nere proBaDiy is no person in Chicaero -who is in a better post 'Ition 'to speait'of the age-old prob lem of the world -and, its causes than Judge Hopkins. For' lTopkins iias been, presid ing, over- the- South Clark street 1 " municipal courttfor montlis And to the South Clark .street ; court comeall tlie transgressors of.Ghf cago's underworld. -' They come wjth their, stpries..of . sin arid shame, oi pain and .sor row, :pf -tragedy and humorj- of " . wjld;debauches'an(j bljckdjespair 1" The'jf tell. tSeir stories to .Hop- kins,;1and outfneir stories :Hpp kinl -must judge them-4-by the written law-o'r by the "broad, law' of Jiumanityjj-jis he sees' fit, - So, -Hopkins knotys whereof he, speaksheS he -Jtelks. pf-the'un-i derw.drld an'd thje men and women who go ;to make, it up. And;when Hopkins was. 'asked' what .causes He- thought were chiefly b.ehind tha p.r.ocession pitiful of humanity - that; daily files thr.ough his. count, he shook hisl.head and shrugged his. shoul ders., t .-. , "What .can you expect.?' he asked. "When men and, worn en, and youths ahd -gifls, are under paid nd overworked, what" can fybu expect? 1 r "When .merf; wprk long hours :six days in; thelweekrand at last, :a1I Aired dutjaVidi weary, get their 'finger$on small "pay envelope, they are. going tp.goput and try and get relief. " 'IThey are gcing. to, go out- and