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HaHHHBiH WMWWJILMIUilJ fiieudc of Chirks have sent him again to the County Hospital and his old mother is wondering how soon DAILY COMMENT ON Gov. Ferris ofVlichigan said yes terday that Michigan would care for its own strike troubles without inter ference by federal authorities. And in the same breath said he would make no personal investiga tion of the shooting and deportation of Moyer. It isn't easy to figure out just why the great state of Michigan has a governor. If the one she has had anything but a gelatine backbone there would have been no Teal trouble at Calumet All h& has dope has been to let the mine managers do as they darned please. Chicago has taken a long step In the right direction hf passing an or dinance intended to protect the pub lic from false and misleading news paper advertising. This is the ordinance recently ap proved by the Chicago Advertising Club, when the only objection was made by an advertising employe of the Examiner. If this ordinance will protect the people from crooked newspapers and grafting advertisers it will be one of the best things ever passed by the city council. It was high time something was done to stop rotten newspapers from luring their readers into traps set by thieving business men. The real thing in the wayof man hood only needs a little provocation to break out through a dress suit. Last night a bunch of college graduates in dress suits stood1 at a window on the eleventh floor of the University Club building, fighting a fierce fire in the building just across the alley. At times the flames were so fierce that they spanned the space between jthe alley and drove the hoys back I she will be put in the place the poor dread worse than death. I But the puppy is chasing its tail. o- PEOPjLE AND THINGS 4 from the window. But they came right back, one bunch relieving another. And they paid no more attention to their dress suits than a fireman would to his uniform. There wasn't any fake about it I saw It myself from within ten feet of the college grads. A fire chief who went up there was asked if he wanted -any of his men to come up. "Don't need 'em," he replied. '"Those boys are doing all right." Even though Pres. Aleck McCor mick denounces it as a "dirty p'oliti cal trick" the council did the. right thing when it passed a resolution for the" investigation of inhuman treat ment at the County Hospital. McCormick himself has been play ing newspaper politics with both hands and his mouth, and was get ting the County Hospital on an Unit ed Charities basis by too much inves tigation before treatment. It is time somebody was getting at the truth about conditions at the County Hospital. Fortunately the Trib doesn't con trol the city council. And judging by the ordinance against fake advertising the Hearst papers have lost the council grip, too o- LABOR BODY MEETS Washington, Dec. 30. Important labor legislatIon,for the coming year was considered today in the opening session of the two days' session ot the American Association for Labor Legislatio nand the American Politic cal Science Association. Such prob lems as workmen's compensation, oc ' cupatlonal diseases, one day's rest hi seven, federal museum for accident prevention, social insurance and ens forcement of labor laws were sched uled for consideration,