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Tdaily comment on Chicago has had so many shoot ings by gunmen that even little chil dren are doing it. - Better quit your flirting. The cop pettes are on duty now, and they'll pinch a masher on Bight. Perhaps now it may be possible to have male street walkers yanked into court.' Up to date only the females have been pinched. A crap shooter is arrested, but a grain gambler like Jim Patten is a prominent citizen. Why? Martial law and murder comes aft er fool, policemen have tried to pre vent free speech and lawful assem blage of working men Arid as fast as trades unions are knocked down, the I. W. W. springs up. But-still capital is ignorant and " can't see beyond its nose. If a woman policeman doesn't wear uniform the crooks can't properly ircall her a harness bull, can they? i Anyhow Uncle Sam is bigger than i the express trust, and is going to j-make the express robbers disgorge. "Better make a clean job of it and take over the whole business with rthe postofflce department - A Chicago labor leader who fondly ( imagines he is big enough to get In 'bed with Hearst and make lab.or like ' it, should read that fable of the frog "that tried to swell up as big as the . ox. The frog busted. ' When the sport writers begin pick ling next year's baseball managers, that's a sign that fall is coming. It would be much more appropriate -for the Exam to get out a special edition of the N. A. M. with Gripenuts Pb'stum as editor. Nobody will miss Ambassador Heniy Lane Wilson except those en 'ferprising Wall street sharks who Wanted him to do his Mexican am- "bassadoririg in their interest. So good bye, Hank. Talk about science helping out the farmer! They've" found a cow at Mc- PEOPLE AND THINGS Comb, O., that falls into a well to water her milk herself. Southern Christian Advocate edi toralizesthat, from a moral stand point, it would be better for women to go nude than dress in the present suggestive fashion. That Advocate editor must have seen something awful. Things are changing a bit in news paper circles. The Record-Herald and Inter-Ocean this morning printed State's Attorney Hoyne's vigorous attack on the Tribune; indicating that some of the papers are getting over being afraid of the Trib. And now the Chicago Women's Club will not be officially represented in the exclusive society suffrage edi tion of the Examiner; and it is an nounced that Mrs. George Bass, the president, won't write for it That edition may get some money for the cause, but it isn't getting the great bulk of the Buffragists. As for the alleged' trades union edition, so-called unionists are going to self a paper that can't use the union label and is on the unfair list of organized labor. It isn't the real union men, how ever, who have gone -over to Hearst and established headquarters in his building; it is a few of their officials who seem to have gone to work for Hearst Don't lose track of the telephone deal to establish a 'phone monopoly in Chicago. It means telephone slav ery "for 'phone users if it goes through. The first idea of the women police seems to be one of helpfulness. That ought to be the policy of every .police man to be the people's friend and helper. "Use short words; they are the best and proper kind to use." "I know," said the henpecked husband; "and thin words the kind you can get in edgewise!"