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FEAR PHYSICAL FORCE MAY BE USED TO TAKE THAW AWAY FROM N. Y. OFFICIALS THE DAY BOOK An Adless Daily Newspaper N. D. Cochran, xggs Tel. Monroe 353. Editor and Publisher. u?p5 Automatic 51-442. 500 South Peoria St. 398 By Mail, 50 Cents a Month. VOL. 2, NO. 280 Chicago, Monday, Aug. 25, 1913 ONE CENT WHY MARSHALL FIELD STORE CAN GRAB STREETS OF CHICAGO One Reason Is That Most Newspapers Represent the ' Selfish Interest of Advertisers Rather Than the In terests of the People The Pennsylvania Rail road, the 3 Phone T rust and Newspapers. BY N.p. COCHRAN . I have, a note from a woman reader about the blocking of public streets by private interests. She says: "I wanted to go from State street to Wabash avenue today on the south side of the street, and found that I could not even go around the new Field annex building, but must cross the street and walk on the north sidewalk in Washington street the street itself being closed to traffic to allow the Field estate to grab space under the streets as it has done over the streets of the people. It occurred to me then that such usurpation as this, per missible only because the heavy advertising of the store closes the mouths of the daily papers, is a neat way to make anarchists. What does your paper think?" The reader's mistake is in assuming that the streets belong to the peo ple. Theoretically, the streets do belong to the -people. In the sense that the people have any control over what belongs to them, the streets do not belong to the people. They belong to whoever can. take them and, gfik.away.with-.it.. The owners of the Field store are rich enough and influential enough to help