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MERELY COMMENT And now that we've got 'em what'll we call 'em policewomen, police ladies, copragettes, or just plain c'op pesses? And will men have a choice as to whether he will be pinched by a, man of copped by a woman? Anyhow, more power to the ladies, and we'll see what we'll see. This is a great country and things are hap pening every minute. It is to be hoped, however, that Jerry O'Connor, the moral one, won't censor the coppess uniform. It's none of Jerry's business. Evidently some Daily News drivers appear to think that old Vic Lawson is king of Chicago, and that any cop who interferes with his rowdies is in danger of being beheaded. So Wm. Vincent Astor has to pay an inheritance tax of $2,741,833 to the, State of New York on the millions he inherited from his dad. But then many a- man. would be glad to pay that tax if he could have the fortune to pay it on. Andy Lawrence sent word to the Butts committee that he was going to leave the city, not to be back until Oct. 1. As long as Andy must go away it is kind of him to leave the city. We might need it while he's gone. But what in thunder's going to be come of us all if every blamed one of the big newspaper bosses gets out of town. It appears that crooked election of ficials can manipulate the voting ma chine. Answer: Get honest election officials. Why doesn't some- local Buffalo Bill get up a Chicago Wild West and take some of our most prominent gunmen on the road. It would put Buffalo Bill's tame affair out of busi ness. Needn't throw your cigarette away. Lucy Page Gaston isn't one of the new coppesses. Neither is Arthur Baggage Farwell. Whoever is writing the-"news" about the Mexican situation for Bill Hearst's papers must hit a swell brand of hop. Those dreams are very Jim-Jammy. Why is it that not a single big daily in the Chicago newspaper trust Is fighting on the side of telephone users? Has the 'phone monopoly got every one of them hooked? How about the public service policy" of. the Trib? Is it all bunk when' there's a chance for a real public ser vice? Mr. Max Annenberg, one of our most prominent gunmen, is still in. our midst, and Maclay Hoyne appears ! to be stirring around in the Tribune's midst. By the way, if the virtuous. Trib really wants to stop gambling; why, not get after the big gamblers on thej board of trade? All other gamblers are mere pikers alongside such gam-, biers as Jim Patten and the big bunch. As near as we can figure it out the main business of the board of review is to be kind and generous to the big-tax-dodgers and cut down their as sessments. Have you noticed how different the attitude of politicians toward women since the women became full-fledged' citizens. That little vote does make a difference. Goodness gracious, the society suf fragists who are in partnership with the Examiner to make a little money, have now got the temperance folks all riled up because of a rumor that there will be two pages of booze ad vertising in that suffrage edition of the Examiner. Mrs. Trout, however, says it is no such thing. And she is peeved at the anti-saloonists for spreading the story. This is a crool world, good folks.' And the wets and drys have' one dickens of a time with it. o o "He says he's a self-made man. ' What sort of fellow is he?" "Oh, just' like all amateur productions!" '