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MARY BOYLE O'REILLY; MEETS MOTHER JONES IN 'HER1 MILITARY PRISON IN W. VIRGINIA . THE DAY BOOK An AHless Daily Newspaper. N. D. Cochran, Editor and Publisher. 500 South Peoria St TeL-Monroe 353. VOL-2, NOr.173 ' Chicago, Monday,: April 21, 1913 ONE CENT WHY THE DAY BOOK CRITICISES THE METHODS OF THE REV. WILLIAMS IN FIGHTING VICE What the Editor Saw at That Midnight Session, and 'What, He Thought as He Saw a Woman Pilloried Before Her Male Accusers Christianity ' Twenty Centuries' Ago and Now, BY N. D. COCHRAN EDITOR OF THE DAY BOOK ; It may be that I have my Christianity upside down,- too. And, again, it maybe that Christianity is just as right as it was twenty centuries ago, and. modern civilization is. upside down. ' ' I have a letter from Frank L. Lee, which is evidently sincere and! earnest1 in a "sharp criticism of The Day Book for a story about Rev. E. XL Williams, pastor-of .Grace M. E. church, in which story Mr. Lee says Pastor Williams. was "disrespectfully ridiculed, misrepresented and denounced." "This pastor is greatly admired by .all the Y. "M. C. A. men and all Christians in general who have the foresight to see the ridiculousness of your ridicule," says Mr": Lee. , I want frankly and 'earnestly to meet that criticism, which I am satis fiedwas meant to be helpful to The Day Book by. one of its readers. I 'never met Pastor Williams, and do not know him, but I want to be ;just with him as' with every other human being. And I do want readers of The Day Book to understand its policy and my policy. I .attended that midnight meeting of the. Illinois Senate Welfare Com mittee' at the" LaSalle Hotel. There was a table on -a raised "platform in" the room, and behind that table sat Lieiit-Gov. O'Hara and three other members of the committee. At one stage of the proceedings, a man land woman were taken on that' platform and seated in two chairs, so that 'the pair-a were facing' the com mittee acrosS'thV table. .Seated in a semi-circle facing the committee weretmany men and very few women. Most of the women who .had been there had gone away. Around a table sat newspaper re porters. To one side stood news paper photographers, with their cameras and flashlight apparatus. The woman's head was bowed possibly in shame. Mixed with that .emotion, undoubtedly, was fear. She turned away from the cameras. , '- Goy. O'Hara asked the man if the-'