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McFARlAND AND BRIXTON FIGHT TONIGTHf SEE INSIDE PAGES FOR SPORT DOPE THE DAY BOOK N. D. Cochran, Editor andJPublisher. ,Qa 500 South Peoria St. dy8f Tel. Monroe 353. VOB.2,NQ.135 Chicago Friday, March 7, 1913 ONE CENT ROSENWALD'S PHILANTHROPIES GALLED MASK - ,TG HIDE STARVATION- WAGES Senate White Slave Commission Asks Multi-Millionaire If He Gave Huge Donations to Keep Wage - Problem' Out of Vice Report.' "I want to ask you a question, Mr. Rosenwald. It is one of the big reasons I called you before thisommission. You are known over-the length and breadth of this country as a.public-spiritedman; your very "name suggests-philanthrophy ; you are connected with dozensof reform, ofuplift societies I want" to ask you, Mr. Rosen wald, man to man, if you think that low wages have anything to do with vice." Lieutenant Governor EJarratt O'Hara. tb Julius Rosen wald, president of the great Searsv Roebuck & Col factories. ' And Rosenwald, red, flustered, his jaws working nervously, stammered out a longfdrawn "No-o-b-o." The mask'-was torn from Julius; Rosenwald, multi-milliona'ire' and philanthropist, the- man who if sometimes called Chicago. s most public-spirited citizen," today;' Rosenwald was on ;theracltf be fore the senate white slave' com mission for -two hoursjahd twen ty minutes'. ' 1SL-?t-Jr, And when; he left .the, stand At the end of.it," his face was red, his was a little shaky, hisfgills ajittle white. 't , " . t . , He had- con'tradjcted himself- svfcile uterqathit' He-had s.Yorn4- .thatthe lowest wages paid in the Sears-R6e"buck; plan was $5 a week. And he, had been faced by one of 'his own former -employes to whom he had paid only .$4.50 a 'week, and proved a liar. He had been .held up to the scoYrf of; all men by the members of the; commission; legislators,' men not easily moved, to; showing contempt for, a- multi-millionaire. He had been asked directly if it werctruethat he had contribut- ?eii'nipnpytp;x.em''SocieUes only